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CFMAs to Feature SULTANS OF STRING’s Cannes World Film Festival Winning “WALKING THROUGH THE FIRE”
April 5 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
$10
[Ottawa ON] As part of the 20th Anniversary Celebrations, the Canadian Folk Music Awards will present Sultans of String’s film, “WALKING THROUGH THE FIRE”, at the Mayfair Theatre, Sat April 5, 12:30pm (doors at noon).
Winning Best Musical Film and Best Soundtrack at the Cannes World Film Festival, this powerful film production is unlike any other, bringing the magic of collaboration to the screen with award-winning First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists from across Turtle Island in performance with 6x CFMA winners Sultans of String.
2 min. Official Film Trailer:
This Special Screening is open to the public and also includes a Q&A with Sultans of String bandleader/film producer Chris McKhool and artists from the project, including elder Shannon Thunderbird, Marc Meriläinen, and Josée Bourgeois.
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 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!
A central theme running through Walking Through The Fire is the need for the truth of Indigenous experience to be told before reconciliation can begin in earnest. Embedded in the title is the energy of rebirth: fire destroys, but it also nourishes the soil to create new growth, beauty, and resiliency. Walking Through The Fire ensures that we emerge on the other side together, stronger and more unified. Experience in full DOLBY ATMOS. 80 Minutes.