With sick and famish'd eyes

Saturday, March 2, 2024

7:30 PM

Muriel Richardson Auditorium, Winnipeg Art Gallery

With sick and famish’d eyes

JONATHON ADAMS, baritone; & COLLABORATORS

In this offering of 17th century devotional song, traditional Indigenous musics, and their own poetry, Cree-Métis baritone Jonathon Adams imagines the intersection of culture, sound, and identity at the moment of first contact between their Cree ancestors and English colonizers at the mouth of the Nelson and Hayes rivers in northern Manitoba. As a soloist, Jonathon has performed gems of the baroque repertoire with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent, Tafelmusik, and many others, while working with institutions such as the University of Toronto, Bard College, and Early Music Vancouver around themes of anti-coloniality, and right relations within the field of ‘historically informed performance.’ Please join Jonathon and their collaborators for an evening of story-singing as they weave with the legacies of colonial trauma and the ancient, resurgent voices of this occupied land and water.