Red Ride Tour rides again!
Press Release
– Canada, ON & BC –
redridetour.com
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Tour dates:
May 3 – Capitol Centre Theatre, North Bay, ON
(Kristi Lane Sinclair, Logan Staats, Laura Ortman)
May 4 – Big Medicine Studio, Nipissing First Nation, ON
(Kristi Lane Sinclair, Logan Staats, Laura Ortman)
May 6 – Coalition, Toronto, ON
(Rosary Spence, Kristi Lane Sinclair, Logan Staats, Laura Ortman, The Johnnys)
May 7 – Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, ON
(Kristi Lane Sinclair, Logan Staats, Laura Ortman, Lacey Hill)
May 12 – Debajehmujig Creation Centre, Manitowaning, ON
(Kristi Lane Sinclair, Logan Staats, Laura Ortman)
May 14 – The Foundry, Thunder Bay, ON
(Kristi Lane Sinclair, Logan Staats, Nick Sherman, Laura Ortman)
May 20 – Lytton Block Party, Lytton, BC
(Kristi Lane Sinclair, Enter-Tribal)
May 21 – Victoria Event Centre, Victoria, BC
(Enter-Tribal, Ostwelve, Kristi Lane Sinclair, Paint The Town Red)
May 24 – Fairview Pub, Vancouver, BC
(Enter-Tribal, Ostwelve, Kristi Lane Sinclair, Laura Ortman)
May 26-29 – Haida Gwaii Territory, BC (school shows)
May 28 – Mile Zero Pub, Massett (TBC)
(Enter-Tribal, Kristi Lane Sinclair, Ostwelve)
Listen to music here: https://soundcloud.com/red-ride-tour
The Red Ride Tour is about to hit the road for its sixth incarnation. First conceived as a DIY tour for two friends has turned into a travelling showcase of Indigenous musicians across the country.
“It has been amazing watching the tour grow,” says founder Kristi Lane Sinclair.
This year, the Red Ride Tour is taking a detour and instead of hitting larger cities, as in past years, they are travelling the grassroots road.
“We’ll be visiting reserves and smaller communities that normally don’t get a lot of live music,” says Sinclair.
The sixth Red Ride Tour kicks off May 3 in North Bay, ON, and will make stops across Canada from Nippissing First Nation to Manitoulin Island to Lytton, BC, and ends on May 29 in Sinclair’s ancestral home of Haida Gwaii.
Last year, the tour had a stop in Wikwemikong, ON, that inspired Sinclair to add more stops like that this time.
“It was highly rewarding for the musicians to see the whole community come out and show not only their support but appreciation that we came to their community.”
This year, Sinclair will be joined by the likes of Enter-Tribal featuring Cayuga/Nuxalk MC JB the First Lady; rising Mohawk singer-songwriter Logan Staats; Apache violinist Laura Ortman; Oji-Cree folk singer Nick Sherman; Stō:lo/St’át’imc multimedia artist Ostwelve; Cree vocalist Rosary Spence, Cree/Dene rockers The Johnnys and Vancouver Island hip hop quartet Paint The Town Red.
In a time when Indigenous music is being recognised more and more by the mainstream — just take a look at the Polaris Music Prize, two Indigenous women took home the coveted award two years running, and artists are now being nominated outside of the Aboriginal recording category at the Junos regularly — this is the time to buy a ticket to the show and learn more about what the Indigenous music scene in Canada has to offer.
The Red Ride Tour is a mix of musical genres and a collective of Indigenous musicians whose goal is to showcase the diverse talent of artists across North America in what is described as an eclectic community of culture.
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