SOUNDING THUNDER: The Song of Francis Pegahmahabow
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
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Sounding Thunder
By Armand Ruffo and Tim Corlis
A musical journey into the life of the renowned Ojibwe WWI sniper and decorated officer of the Canadian military, Francis Pegahmagabow. Composed by Tim Corlis and written by Ojibwe poet Armand Garnet Ruffo, Sounding Thunder is a complex work divided into three acts, exploring Pegahmagabow’s early years immersed in the world of the Anishinaabe spirits, his extraordinary accomplishments in the trenches of WWI, and finally his political life as Chief of the Wausauksing Ojibwe and founder of the early Indigenous political moment in Canada. Based on the book Sounding Thunder by Brian McInnes who provides new perspective on Pegahmagabow and his experience through a unique synthesis of Ojibwe oral history, historical record, and Pegahmagabow family stories.
CAST
Larry Beckwith, conductor
Brian D. McInnes, narrator
Jodi Baker Contin, singer, actor
Keenan Keeshig, actor
Mark Fewer, violin
James Campbell, clarinet
Christian Sharpe bassoon
Beverley Johnston, percussion
Guy Few, trumpet
Rachel Thomas, trombone
Joel Quarrington, double bass
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