Interweavings, the final performance at this year鈥檚 Ryga Arts Festival will feature music from Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson and Bill Henderson.
The concert will be held on Saturday, Aug. 31 at Centre Stage Theatre.
Williams-Davidson, a Haida artist, activist, musician and lawyer, has won several Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, including one in 2008 for being A Keeper of Traditions.
Her latest recording, Grizzly Bear Town, was written and performed in collaboration with Bill Henderson and Claire Lawrence, two original members of The Collectors and Chilliwack.
Williams-Davidson said the album is a return to her ancestral origins.
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鈥淕rizzly Bear Town is another name for my ancestral village of Skedans, the village of my maternal great-grandmother, Susan Williams,鈥� she said.
The songs illustrate many aspects of Haida culture, including supernatural beings such as Cedar Sister, Landslide Lady, and Canoe Song.
鈥淭鈥檌is Kwaanaaya (Many Ledges) is the supernatural being of the rock cliff behind Skedans,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t was once a powerful supernatural killer whale before it became the rock cliff. In this song, Many Ledges is a metaphor for the many ascents and falls in our journey towards enlightenment.鈥�
Lawrence, one of Canada鈥檚 top jazz producers and versatile musicians, calls Grizzly Bear Town a 鈥渕utually creative process.鈥�
Henderson, a singer, songwriter and guitarist said, 鈥淲orking with Terri-Lynn is an opportunity to do something in the realm of reconciliation. To just start working together creatively is a start.鈥�
For the performance, the trio has doubled in size to include bassist Canadian jazz musician Jody Proznick vocalists Camille and Saffron Henderson, Bill Henderson鈥檚 daughters.
Summerland is where Henderson and Lawrence worked with playwright George Ryga on Grass and Wild Strawberries, which became a recording hit for The Collectors and a record-breaking show at the Vancouver Playhouse.
Ryga wrote his 1967 play. The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, in Summerland. The play is about the murder of a young Indigenous woman. It has been called the most influential Canadian play.
Details about the performance can be found on Williams-Davidson鈥檚 website at .
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