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sākihiwē music Thursdays, December episodes
sākihiwē music Thursdays: December Episodes
JUNO Award winners Murray Porter and Celeigh Cardinal are set to deliver hour‐long radio performances and four‐song video performances for sākihiwē music Thursdays with NCI FM in December.
Each radio episode will hit the NCI FM airwaves at 7:00 pm CDT, while the videos premiere on the sākihiwē festival’s YouTube channel and Facebook page at 12:00 pm CDT.
- December 2: Murray Porter ( YouTube (opens in new tab) / Facebook (opens in new tab) / ncifm.com/listen-live (opens in new tab) )
- December 16: Celeigh Cardinal ( YouTube (opens in new tab) / Facebook (opens in new tab) / ncifm.com/listen-live (opens in new tab) )
About Murray Porter
Bluesman Murray Porter’s music career has taken him all over the world for the last 35+ years. He’s a proud Mohawk man from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in southern Ontario who now lives on Squamish Nation territory in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
Porter, who grew up on rock and roll, R&B, and country music, released his first CD since his 2012 JUNO Award for “Aboriginal Album of the Year” titled “STAND UP!” which reflects his early musical influences. He believes this next album is some of his best work to date.
About Celeigh Cardinal
Discovery is the beauty of music. Such is the evolution of 2020 JUNO Award winner Celeigh Cardinal. Following a time‐tested path from singing in church to performing in cover bands to writing original material, Cardinal has reinvented herself with each new chapter of her career. With a confident voice and boundless energy, she commands the stage, connecting deeply with her audience through humor, passion, and love. Her singing is rich and deep with burnished maturity and nimble technical virtuosity that can purr, snarl, or hover in between. With two full‐length albums completed and another in the planning stages, Cardinal’s profile is set to expand even further, bolstered by awards and nominations from the 2020 JUNO Awards, the 2018 Western Canadian Music Awards, multiple Edmonton Music Awards, and recent nominations for Indigenous Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year at the 2020 Western Canadian Music Awards.
About sākihiwē music Thursdays
sākihiwē music Thursdays was launched on February 2, 2021, with financial help from the Safe at Home Manitoba program. The project brings recorded performances by Indigenous artists to Indigenous families both online and offline. In its inaugural round, Inuit throat singer Nikki Komaksiutiksak, country singer Desiree Dorion, the legendary C‐Weed Band, mezzo‐soprano opera singer Rhonda Head, singer/songwriter Billy Simard, fiddle master Patti Kusturok, and hip hop artist Mattmac entertained audiences.
About Indigenous Cloud
Indigenous Cloud is a music and arts hosting platform designed to help preserve and celebrate Indigenous‐created visual and audio art. It provides essential streaming services, a state‐of‐the‐art recording studio, and robust distribution solutions, hosting the largest collection of Indigenous-made recordings.
About NCI FM
NCI FM reaches more than 80% of Manitoba, including 75 communities outside of Winnipeg, with nearly 140,000 daily listeners. Please visit ncifm.com (opens in new tab) for more information.
Aboriginal Music Manitoba (AMM) acknowledges the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council for their financial support of the sākihiwē festival’s outreach programming.
