Fine Arts Indigenous Graduate Admission Award helps Kainai student continue passion for music Poll yes By University of Lethbridge on April 28, 2021. Sonny Day Rider is the recipient of the first-ever Fine Arts Indigenous Graduate Admission Award, as he pursues Master of Music studies at the University of Lethbridge. University of Lethbridge photo Sonny-Ray Day Rider’s voyage to the first-ever Fine Arts Indigenous Graduate Admission Award began as a young child, in the warm presence of his paternal grandmother and the piano she had at her house. “I was always into music. It’s been my biggest passion since I was a child. I grew up with it,” says Day Rider. “For me, creating is a way of being. I don’t think of it exactly as a process, it’s more visceral, I guess. Something higher than me.”