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sākihiwē music Thursdays with Logan Staats
sākihiwē music Thursdays: Logan Staats
Blues legend Logan Staats joins sākihiwē music Thursdays with a four‐song video performance for online audiences and an hour‐long concert for radio listeners on NCI FM country on February 24.
His video will premiere for free on the indigenous-cloud.com (opens in new tab) website at 12:00 pm CST, and it will also be available on the sākihiwē festival’s YouTube channel and Facebook page on March 3.
Radio lovers can tune in at 7:00 pm CST on the FM dial in Manitoba or online at ncifm.com/listen-live (opens in new tab) for a full hour of original songs.
- February 24: Logan Staats ( register for free (opens in new tab) )
- March 3: Logan Staats ( YouTube (opens in new tab) / Facebook)
About Logan Staats
An evocative testament to rock’s cathartic spirit, Mohawk singer-songwriter Logan Staats’ new album A Light in the Attic is a healing salve. Since returning home to Six Nations of the Grand River after trips to Nashville and Los Angeles following his success on The Launch, Staats has reclaimed his sound through honest storytelling and raw reflection. He sings of reconciliation, recovery from addiction, survival through intergenerational trauma, and healing after despair. “I wanted to bring my songwriting back to the medicine inside of music, to the medicine inside of reclamation,” he explains.
Home is at the heart of A Light in the Attic—recorded at his apartment, at Six Nations recording studio Jukasa, and at downtown Brantford’s Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts. “My nation and my community are in every chord I play and every note I sing. They’ve saved me,” says Staats.
About sākihiwē music Thursdays
sākihiwē music Thursdays was launched on February 2, 2021, with the financial help of the Safe at Home Manitoba program. The project brings recorded performances by Indigenous artists to Indigenous families both online and offline. In its first 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. Essential for both independent and signed recording artists, it offers streaming services, a state‐of‐the‐art recording studio, and robust distribution services. Hosting the largest collection of Indigenous made recordings, Indigenous Cloud provides an ideal home for your next masterpiece.
About NCI FM
NCI FM reaches more than 80% of Manitoba, including 75 communities outside 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.
