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Aug 9, 2013 · CBC. August 9, 2013. Singer-songwriter and First Nations activist Willie Dunn has died at the age of 71. The noted musician and storyteller passed away at home in Ottawa on Monday. He had been ill for some time, according to his son, Lawrence Dunn. "I was really proud of him: proud of his musical ability and how much people seemed to look up to ...
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Kanatakta first met Dunn, a family friend, when he was young. It was in Grade 6, however, that the musician's ability struck Kanatakta during a classroom performance. Dunn played his song about Charlie Wenjack — the 12-year-old Anishnaabe boy who in 1966 ran away from a residential school near Kenora, Ont., and died from starvation and exposure to ...
When Kanatakta moved to Ottawa in 1990, not long after the Oka Crisis ended, Dunn asked him to join a few of his gigs. Dunn rarely had a setlist, instead relying on intuition or his bandmates for the next song. "It was this very impromptu kind of musical relationship we had, which was really based on being in the moment and letting those songs spea...
After that concert, Kanatakta says Dunn spoke with audience members who wanted to share how they felt. It was the artist's way of sharing the history of Indigenous peoples in this country. "There's a lot of racism in this country, but I really feel that the more educated that people become, the better off for everybody really — and the better relat...
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Feb 6, 2023 · Born on April 29th, 1933, Nelson recorded his first album, No Place For Me, in 1956. From there he went on to have a very successful career that earned him a total of 12 Grammy Awards and a whopping 56 nominations. In 1993, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame; five years later, he was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.
Aug 13, 2021 · Dunn, who died in 2013, would have been 70 this weekend. He was born in 1941 to a mother from the Mi’kmaq, a First Nations people based in eastern Canada. His father was a British immigrant who ...
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Sep 17, 2021 · Photo courtesy of the Estate of Willie Dunn. Willie Dunn’s Song “Charlie” Tells the Story of Chanie Wenjack. One of Dunn’s songs, Charlie, which is part of the anthology, tells the tragic story of Chanie Wenjack — a 12-year-old Ojibwa boy who died of starvation after running away from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in ...
Mar 14, 2024 · The living legend himself, Willie Nelson, has a new album on the way. With his 91st birthday just around the corner on April 29th, the red headed stranger is gearing up to put out his 75th solo studio album The Border on May 31st (to go along with his 26 collaborative studio albums). The Border will mark
