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Performance of the Creation Story during the August 2018 workshops in Winnipeg, MB. From Scene One, Act One. Performed by Alanna McPherson.
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Workshop, August 18, 2018 Winnipeg, MB.
Text by Suzanne M. Steele; music by Neil Weisensel.
1. Qui-est-ce aria (with Red River Jig).
2. Trio Riel, Black Geese, Marguerite (3:41).
3. Josephine Marie/Black Goose ending dialogue (4:30).
4. Riel Aria Take this Josephine Marie (6:00).
Performers: Rebecca Cuddy, Julie Lumsden, John Anderson, PJ Buchan, Melissa St. Goddard, Francis Fontaine, Alanna McPherson, Cary Denby, and Matthew Lagacé.
June Bruce, Lorraine Coutu, Agathe Chartrand and Jules Chartrand (St. Laurent, MB), and Verna DeMontigny (Brandon, MB) were our Michif translators. Debra Beach Ducharme and Donna Beach (Ebb and Flow 1st Nation) produced the Saulteaux translation.
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Julie Lumsden is a Métis actor hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, known for her “marvelous voice” and giving “smart, sensitive” performances (CBC Winnipeg). In May 2015, she graduated with a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba, where she studied under the incomparable Donna Fletcher. Some highlights of recent years include playing Minnie in "The Flats" (Prairie Theatre Exchange), Veronica Sawyer in "Heathers: The Musical" (Winnipeg Studio Theatre), Miss Spider in "James and the Giant Peach" (Manitoba Theatre for Young People), Eponine in Les Miserables (Rainbow Stage), Beth in "Little Women" (Dry Cold Productions), and Cinderella in "Into The Woods" (District Theatre Collective).
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Three excerpts from Riel's Heart of the North with Julie Lumsden singing "Ni mayagenimaak" [I find it strange] in Saulteaux, Rebecca Cuddy, Julie Lumsden, John Anderson, Peter John Buchan, singing "The Names" Chorus (at 4:14) and "I am Charmed by My Country" (at 5:33) with the Michif chorus (Serge Carriere, Lola Whonnock, Marlena Muir, Madison Mosher, Brianna Pirrie, Rebecca Chambers, Mike Chambers) and narrators Alanna McPherson and Francis Fontaine. Book and text by SM Steele. Music by Neil Weisensel. Translators: Donna Beach, Debra Ducharme, Jules Chartrand, Lorraine Coutu, Agathe Chartrand, Patsy Millar, June Bruce, and Verna DeMontigny.
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Two excerpts from Riel's Heart of the North with Julie Lumsden and Rebecca Cuddy singing the duet "Ni Nakamoo Min" (We Sing the North) in Saulteaux and Michif and (at 2:36) the Michif chorus (Serge Carriere, Lola Whonnock, Marlena Muir, Madison Mosher, Brianna Pirrie, Rebecca Chambers, Mike Chambers) singing Apres Maachiwin (After the Hunt). Book and text by Suzanne M. Steele. Music by Neil Weisensel. Translators: Donna Beach, Debra Ducharme, Jules Chartrand, Lorraine Coutu, Agathe Chartrand, Patsy Millar, June Bruce, and Verna DeMontigny.
