Amanda Rheaume

Ontario

Amanda Rheaume

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Amanda Rheaume 🇨🇦

Amanda Rheaume’s rootsy, guitar-driven ballads introduce crucial dimensions to the world of “Heartland Rock.” Her sound and story crucially and radically expand the boundaries, geographic and cultural, to make space for new perspectives on resistance and resilience. Of the Métis Nation, and an active and proud member of the 2SLGBTQ+ community, Amanda’s music is indeed from the heart, and the land. Her 2013’s Keep a Fire was nominated for a JUNO Award and won a Canadian Folk Music Award for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year. Amanda comes from a long line of tireless, transformational organizers and activists, and carries this lineage forward in her ever-growing role as a crucial builder of Indigenous music infrastructure and community. From the recent International Indigenous Music Summit to the newly founded Ishkode Records, and the National Indigenous Music Office, the goal of raising Indigenous sovereignty in the music industry drives all of Amanda Rheaume’s work.