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Tour showcasing First Nations' music community set for Thunder Bay stop

THUNDER BAY -- A tour is hitting town to showcase the diversity of the First Nations' music community.
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Two-time Juno winner Derek Miller is set to play at The Apollo on May 23. (Submitted)

THUNDER BAY -- A tour is hitting town to showcase the diversity of the First Nations' music community.

Now in its fifth year, Red Ride is making a stop in Thunder Bay May 23 at The Apollo featuring tour founders Kristi Lane Sinclair, Cris Derksen, local Nick Sherman and two-time Juno winner Derek Miller.

"We're just sharing our talents with each other," Miller said recently on the phone from Vancouver.

"It's cool people are starting to respond. We've always had a hand in shaping the blueprint of American rock and roll. Its' cool to keep that tradition."

 

 

Jimi Hendrix and Charley Patton are just a couple of examples Miller points to where Aboriginal people have changed the sound of North American music. He honours that with his newest album, 'Rumble', a Smithsonian-backed tribute to Native Americans in music.

"The ingenuity and creativity of the indigenous people can't be overlooked," he said.

"It's always been there."

While that album had him looking back, Miller is also focused on the future, spending his time recently with electronic music. Whether that will see the usual guitarist put out an electronic album is yet to be seen.

"You never know," he said.

"I'm trying to crack that code where I feel comfortable in that suit kind of thing so we'll see."

As for the tour, Miller said it's all about bringing people together.

"We're supposed to be on this planet together and tolerate and love and figure out how to live with each other," he said.

 

 

 

 





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