Maria Dunn - Live in Cumberland
Schedule
Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Cumberland United Church | Cumberland, BC
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The Cumberland Museum presents 🎤Maria Dunn, live in concert as part of this year's Miners Memorial Weekend Celebrations!
đź“…Thursday, June 11
đź“ŤWeird Church, Cumberland.
⏱️Doors at 7 and music at 7:30.
🎟️Tickets: https://square.link/u/686QSMiB
A true preserver of the spirit of folk music, 2022 Juno award winner Maria Dunn draws deeply on the folk tradition of storytelling through song to honour the resilience and grace of
“ordinary” people, past and present. Her music celebrates the love of family, community, and humanity that fires our actions to make the world a better place.
Maria Dunn elevates our humanism...its meditative scope full of sacrifice, familiar echoes & joy will remind you we’ll always get to the other side...
– Fish Griwkowsky, Edmonton Journal (January 2021)
Dunn received the 2016 Edmonton Music Prize for her work as a folk roots songwriter/musician in bringing community stories of resilience and grace to life through her recorded music and live performances.
In her 30 years creating independent folk music, Maria has toured internationally to theatres, folk clubs, conferences and festivals. Her seventh album, 2022 Juno-winning Joyful Banner Blazing topped many 2021 Folk-DJ radio playlists. Maria’s newest and eighth album, Hardscrabble Hope (#4 on Roots Music Canada Critics’ Poll 2025) finds a path through the upheaval of recent years with stories of gratitude, resilience and resistance.
She works collaboratively with videographer Don Bouzek and other colleagues including historian Catherine C. Cole, Cree-Dene singers, songwriters and composers Debbie Houle and Sherryl Sewepagaham, of now-retired Indigenous women’s trio Asani (On The River inspired by Dorothy McDonald-Hyde, Indigenous rights leader and former Chief of Fort McKay First Nation) and Stephanie Harpe (Fort McKay First Nation), rock/blues singer-songwriter and advocate for Murdered or Missing and Exploited Indigenous Peoples (MMEIP).
Scotland-born and grateful to live in Amiskwacîwâskahikan / Edmonton, Maria writes songs inspired by solidarity, joy and the love that fires our actions to make the world a better place. As an immigrant/settler to this land, she strives to be a “good relative” through her music and her advocacy.
In keeping with Pete Seeger’s words (1994), “The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them
be known”,
www.mariadunn.com
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Cumberland United Church, 2688 Penrith Ave, Cumberland, BC V0R 1S0, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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