Cliff Cardinal and The Sky-Larks are coming to Wolfe Island! w/ DJ Sipreano (Kevin Howes)

The hilarious and nefarious, Toronto-based, genre-flying Cliff Cardinal and The Sky-Larks are on beat and off-colour. Protest songs, love ballads and existential raps by the polarizing Indigenous poet carrying darker tones of substance abuse and self-loathing are glorified in irony and catchy hooks, revealing take-it-or-leave-it observations. Their two albums: THIS IS NOT A MISTAKE and GONNA BE FINE are available online.

Cliff Cardinal is a Cree and Lakota musician, actor and playwright from Toronto, Ontario, most noted for his one-man show The Land Acknowledgement, or As You Like It. Cliff serves up the truth and does it with a sense of humour. Watch this to see just what we mean:

DJ SIPREANO

DJ Sipreano AKA Kevin Howes plays an all vinyl set!

Kevin is a music historian, writer, DJ, filmmaker, musician, artist, and Grammy-nominated producer of settler/immigrant heritage, humbly and respectfully working out of the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Contributing to and influencing the Canadian music industry since the mid-1990s, Howes has collaborated with Seattle and Los Angeles-based reissue label Light In The Attic Records over the last 14 years on an extensive list of internationally celebrated archival projects: Native North America series, Jamaica-Toronto series, Doug Randle-Songs For The New Industrial State, Rodriguez-Cold Fact and Coming From Reality, Thin Lizzy-s/t, Shades Of A Blue Orphanage, Vagabonds Of The Western World, and Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story are some key examples of his curatorial vision, realized through decades of research, travel, connection, partnership, and celebration (on stages, stereos, and screens worldwide).

Howes is currently launching Voluntary In Nature to further his calling of organically bridging cultures, generations, and eras of technology, both at home and across the universe.

https://soundcloud.com/sipreano

https://macleans.ca/culture/arts/qa-native-north-america-curator-kevin-howes/