Walking Through the Fire: Visual Album

Name: Walking Through the Fire: Visual Album
Start: 2025-04-05T12:30:00-04:00
Location: Mayfair Theatre

Schedule

Sat, 05 Apr, 2025 at 12:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Mayfair Theatre | Ottawa, ON

As part of our 20th Anniversary celebrations, the Canadian Folk Music Awards is proud to present a screening of the visually stunning and transformative film Walking Through the Fire: Visual Album, featuring award-winning First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists from across Turtle Island working together with six-time CFMA winners and three-time JUNO nominees Sultans of String to create something extraordinary. It blends interviews and music videos, bringing the magic of collaboration to the screen.
From Métis fiddling to an East Coast Kitchen Party, rumba to rock, to the drumming of the Pacific Northwest, experience the beauty and diversity of music from Turtle Island with Elder and poet Dr. Duke Redbird, the Métis Fiddler Quartet, Ojibwe/Finnish Singer-Songwriter Marc Meriläinen (Nadjiwan), Coast Tsm’syen Singer Shannon Thunderbird, The North Sound from the Prairies, Blues singer Crystal Shawanda, Heavy-Wood guitarist Don Ross, Northern Cree pow wow group, Dene singer-songwriter Leela Gilday, Inuit Throat Singers and more, in this musical film experience unlike any other.
Prepare to be absorbed by the captivating synergy and power of Walking Through the Fire as it takes you on a journey where cultures collide, boundaries dissolve, and the universal language of music unites us all.
The 80-minute film screening will followed by a Q&A talk-back session with director Chris McKhool, and collaborators Shannon Thunderbird and Marc Meriläinen.