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Fine Arts Indigenous Graduate Admission Award helps Kainai student continue passion for music
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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.”