ListenMinnesota Now – A ‘modern ritual’: Indigenous music icons to tour northern Minnesota
NINA MOINI: Later this week, two iconic Indigenous artists will make a three-day tour of northern Minnesota. Keith Secola is a renowned Anishinaabe songwriter and member of the Native Music Hall of Fame. Gary Farmer is a Cayuga actor known for roles including Nobody in the 1995 movie Dead Man, and Uncle Brownie in the hit TV show Reservation Dogs. He also has a band, Gary and the Troublemakers.
Together, these artists are bringing contemporary Native blues, rock, and traditional sounds to Virginia, Bemidji, and Grand Rapids, Minnesota, starting this Thursday, and they’ll meet up with some other local acts along the way. The Ancestral Fires Music Tour will finish Sunday with a stop in south Minneapolis. Gary Farmer and Keith Secola join me now to talk about it. Thank you both so much for being with us again…