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Elaine Bomberry is hoping a new format proves to be successful for an Indigenous music festival. During the past two years, Bomberry, a member of Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario, had been hired to fill portions of 13 weekends with some Indigenous musical programming at Toronto’s Ontario Place. Bomberry often found the weekends were in competition with numerous other events being staged in Canada’s largest city, including a popular annual Caribbean festival and the IndyCar race events.
Wednesday is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada and there are many ways to mark the day across Hamilton region, from viewing the Radical Stitch beading exhibit at the Art Gallery of Hamilton to poetry, music and a panel discussion at The Westdale Theatre.
Almost 30 years ago, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Elaine Bomberry and Shingoose helped prove that Indigenous artists deserved more, and ended up changing the national music scene forever.