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Murray Porter || sākihiwē music Thursdays 

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Watch a four-song performance by JUNO Award winner Murray Porter, recorded at Dennis Joseph’s studio in Squamish territory.

Murray Porter || sākihiwē music Thursdays
Presented by the sākihiwē festival and NCI FM

Executive Producer: Alan Greyeyes
Producer: MJ Dandeneau
Film by: Whaea Productions
Recorded by: Cosmic Pig Studios
Motion Graphics: Denise Darling, Alan Greyeyes

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About Murray Porter

Bluesman Murray Porter’s music career has taken him all over the world for the last 35+ years. He’s a proud Mohawk man from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in southern Ontario, who now lives on Squamish Nation territory in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Murray may have a blues soul to the core, but he also grew up on rock and roll, R & B and country music. Porter’s first CD since his 2012 JUNO Award for ‘Aboriginal Album of the Year’ is titled, “STAND UP!” and reflects these early musical influences. He strongly feels that this next album is some of his best music to date.

Acknowledgementss

Aboriginal Music Manitoba (AMM) acknowledges the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council for their financial support of the sākihiwē festival’s outreach programming.

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  • Murray Porter

    Murray Porter

    [Mohawk]

    Murray Porter is Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. He tells the Aboriginal side of history with a mixture of country, blues and humour. He’s a “red man, singing the black mans’ blues, living in a white man’s world!” (from his song “Colours”).

    Murray is a self-taught, singer, songwriter and piano player, who’s spent the last 30 years playing the blues throughout the world, spreading his unique style of foot-stomping, hand clapping, rockin’ blues piano!

    Now living in North Vancouver, British Columbia, his CD “Songs Lived & Life Played”, was released to rave reviews in 2011 and won a JUNO Award for “Aboriginal Album of the Year” in 2012. He was also a 2005 JUNO nominee for ‘Full Circle’ with his former group THE PAPPY JOHNS BAND, and Canadian Aboriginal Music Award winner for ‘Best Blues’.In 1994, he launched a solo career. In 1995, Murray recorded his first solo album “1492, Who Found Who?” for First Nations Music (distributed by EMI).

    In 2006, Murray performed at the “Out of Doors Festival”, at the LINCOLN CENTER in New York City at their “23rd Annual Roots of American Music Festival”, on a 10 foot grand piano, with Sipho Kunene on drums. Blues greats, such as Mavis Staples, Guy Davis, Larry Johnson and Bettye LaVette, were part of the festival. He also performed at “Native Sounds Downtown” at the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, in New York City.

    [Mohawk]

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We take music to less fortunate Indigenous families in Winnipeg so they can participate in the arts without sacrificing their family responsibilities, personal safety, or ability to make ends meet. Our efforts are amplified by teams of great folks from Central Neighbourhoods Winnipeg, Ka Ni Kanichihk, Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, and Spence Neighbourhood Association.

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