Indigenous performers are stepping into the spotlight Saturday evenings at Toronto's Ontario Place starting this week.
The Indigenous music concert series, which is co-curated by Elaine Bomberry and Ian Terry, is part of the Ontario Place Summer Live Music Festival.
"Indigenous musicians can create all kinds of music, we're not pigeon-holed into one genre," said Bomberry.
Bomberry, who is Anishinaabe and Cayuga from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, is a performing arts activist, promoter, manager and TV and radio producer.
She is currently living on the Capilano reserve north of Vancouver with her husband, Juno award-winning Murray Porter from Six Nations.
Bomberry said it feels good to know the live music world is opening up.
In selecting the artists, she wanted a balance of up-and-coming musicians as well as more seasoned ones.
"I'm seeing more and more musicians becoming part of other concert series as well," she said.
"If the musicians are that good they deserve to be showcased."
For five consecutive Saturdays, the series will feature Indigenous acts like 2nd Line Bluegrass Band, Nadjiwan and Cliff Cardinal and The Skylarks among others. Tickets are free.
David Lee, the artistic director of the Ontario Place Summer Live Music Festival and TU Jazz Fest, said they were looking to do a collaboration of music series in 2018 but COVID-19 ended up delaying that.
This year the festival was able to resume.
"The first thing we wanted to do was put together an Indigenous music series," said Lee.
The Ontario Place Summer Live Music Festival runs until Sept. 6. All 38 shows will also be streamed live on the Toronto Undergraduate Jazz Festival's Facebook page.
Indigenous performers to be featured Saturdays at Ontario Place music festival - CBC.ca
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