NOMFA 2019 – Thursday Music Showcase

Join us for the opening of NOMFA 2019 at 8 PM at La Fromagerie and experience great music from across Northern Ontario. The Thursday night line-up includes:

Melody McKiver + Darius Gray
Melody McKiver is an Anishinaabe musician, media artist, traditional powwow dancer and artist, and arts educator who currently lives and works in the small town of Sioux Lookout in Treaty #3, northwestern Ontario. As a solo performer, Melody explores the range of the viola’s possibilities, spanning from minimalist to danceable, often incorporating laptop processing and looping. Their most recent release is Reckoning EP (2017), which was originally scored for the Article 11 theatre production of the same name and is written for solo viola and electronics.
As a part of the Indigenous Music Mentorship Program, Melody will be performing with their mentee, Darius Gray.

Mclean
Mclean is an author and multi-instrumentalist from Greater Sudbury. As a child, he liked wandering in decommissioned mine pits, guided by the ghostly voices of his ancestors. In his heart, as an artist and has high ambitions. And he hopes he can, someday, die in Sudbury.

Rose-Erin Stokes
Highlighted by an artistic acumen and an amazing ability to evoke emotion, Stokes’ debut full-length ‘Wherever I Go’ is demonstrative of a songwriting craftsperson at work, with music, words and vocal performances that connect to the hearts and spirits of all who hear them.

Kalle Mattson
Kalle Mattson is a Juno & Polaris Music Prize nominated singer/songwriter based in Canada. On his new album “Youth.”, the 27-year-old Mattson set out to make a coming-of-age album about the middle period between adolescence & adulthood, when dreams become regrets, friends become strangers, first loves become first loss.

Tickets are 10 dollars and available at the link below, at the door, or on our website www.cionorth.ca/nomfa