An award-winning Métis singer-songwriter and storyteller, Amanda weaves history, resilience, and heart into her music. She creates anthemic, guitar-driven songs punctuated with lively Métis fiddle, which brings audiences on a journey through history with every song.
Amanda is a chronicler of stories and people whose acts - out of necessity and opportunity alike - cascade through time and space, from the 18th century Red River Settlement to her own doorstep. With curiosity and empathy, Rheaume has become a bearer of history, unearthing and preserving Métis stories in song. In her gutsy guitar-driven style, punctuated with lively Métis fiddle, her Heartland rock is built to last, resolute in rhythm and unswerving in purpose.
The recipient of the 2024 Spirit of Folk Award, 2023 Canadian Folk Music Award for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year and the 2023 Capital Music Awards’ Album of the Year, Amanda has released six full-length albums to date. She is also co-founder of Ishkode Records and International Indigenous Music Summit and founding board member of the Indigenous Music Office, a commitment to raising Indigenous sovereignty through the medicine of music.
Amanda Rheaume
An award-winning Métis singer-songwriter and storyteller, Amanda weaves history, resilience, and heart into her music. She creates anthemic, guitar-driven songs punctuated with lively Métis fiddle, which brings audiences on a journey through history with every song.
Amanda is a chronicler of stories and people whose acts - out of necessity and opportunity alike - cascade through time and space, from the 18th century Red River Settlement to her own doorstep. With curiosity and empathy, Rheaume has become a bearer of history, unearthing and preserving Métis stories in song. In her gutsy guitar-driven style, punctuated with lively Métis fiddle, her Heartland rock is built to last, resolute in rhythm and unswerving in purpose.
The recipient of the 2024 Spirit of Folk Award, 2023 Canadian Folk Music Award for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year and the 2023 Capital Music Awards’ Album of the Year, Amanda has released six full-length albums to date. She is also co-founder of Ishkode Records and International Indigenous Music Summit and founding board member of the Indigenous Music Office, a commitment to raising Indigenous sovereignty through the medicine of music.
Shane Pendergast
Shane Pendergast has folk music in his blood and has cemented his reputation as one of Atlantic Canada’s finest folk troubadours. He learned to play by ear at an early age, immersed in a culture of family kitchen parties. His connection to Maritime folk music dates back to the efforts of his great-grandparents, preservers of folklore in P.E.I. Shane is carrying the torch forward with his own songs, inspired by rural life and Maritime history.
Through evocative storytelling and intricate guitar stylings, Shane captures the essence of life in the Maritimes, weaving themes of community, history, and nature into every song. His 2021 album, Second Wind, won Contemporary Roots Album of the Year at the Music PEI Awards, and his 2023 live album, The House Before the Bridge, was nominated for Roots/Traditional Album of the Year at the East Coast Music Awards.