This is a nice article of me in the Westmount newspaper. I’ll be singing in the Westmount Park on August 11 2019 with other musicians and poets. Starting at 2.00 pm. Wliwni!
A TASTE OF INDIGENOUS, SOCIALLY RELEVANT, INDIE-FOLK
Marie-Josée Tremblay – WestmountMag.caMarie-Josée Tremblay – Image: Marie-Josee Tremblay/Socan
Of Algonquin heritage, Marie-Josée Tremblay is a gifted, pluridisciplinary artist and musician. She is a composer and interpreter of indie-folk, a photographer, a film-maker, director, actor and painter. She has also worked as a radio host and presenter for CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal for programmes such as Native Solidarity News.
Her art is derived from her lived experiences and yet also goes above and beyond. The cause of Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is close to her heart and soul and her CD album Searching For You honours these women. She has been heavily involved for a number of years in this vital and searing social justice movement, and plays and sings at their events. A number of her songs can be found at mariejoseetremblay.bandcamp.com Her work underscores the basic facts that the victims deserve justice, and their families should be given the opportunity to heal. Her songs are in French, English and also instrumental.
Marie-Josée has 5 short films to her credit, four of which were produced in conjunction with the production company Wapikoni Escale Montréal and UQAM. Her EP album Ni l’une ni l’autre (Neither One nor the Other) features the music from her first film. She also composed the music in her film Le battement de ma ville (The Heart of the City) produced between 2015-2016. Un matin tranquille (A Quiet Morning) and L’envol (Taking Flight) were chosen to be presented at the Montreal First People’s Festival (Festival Présence Autochtone de Montréal) in 2017 and 2018, as was her 5th independent short film Nib8ïwi or “Durant la nuit” (During the Night) for the 2019 edition of the Montreal First Peoples’ Festival, which will be having its world premiere at Cinema du Parc at 8:30 pm on August 10, as part of an evening of experimental films. The festival itself runs from August 6 to 15 at Place des spectacles, Metro Place des arts. It’s well worth a visit.
Hopefully artists like Marie-Josée Tremblay and all our other talented guest performers are a welcome portent* of better things to come.
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