Posted: Jul 16, 2021 4:08 PM ET | Last Updated: July 16
Cree musician Adrian Sutherland, of Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario, has built a music studio inside a donated shipping container. (Submitted by Adrian Sutherland)
Since March 2020, Cree musician Adrian Sutherland has been isolated with his family in Attawapiskat, a remote First Nation on James Bay, without the resources to professionally record music.
That is, until now.
Over the course of the pandemic, Sutherland transformed an old shipping container into a recording studio, which he s called SeaCan Studio. There hasn t been anything like this here before, said Sutherland, who is a singer/songwriter and the front-man and founder of the band Midnight Shine.
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“It’s going to help me in the sense like just being able to continue learning about just how the music industry is moving forward and apply the knowledge to myself,” Junker told
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