Tomson Highway in Concert with vocalist Patricia Cano and saxophonist Marcus Ali.
Generously supported by Mariposa Folk Festival.

Tomson Highway, award-winning playwright and the author of The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Rose, and Kiss of the Fur Queen, was born in a tent near Maria Lake, Manitoba in 1951. A full-blood Cree, he is a registered member of the Barren Lands First Nation, the village for which is called Brochet. He earned his music degree and a Bachelor’s of Arts from the University of Western Ontario. He achieved national and international recognition in 1986 with his sixth play, the multi-award-winning The Rez Sisters.

For many years, he ran Canada’s premiere Native Theatre Company, Native Earth Performing Arts, in Toronto, out of which has emerged a generation of professional Native Theatre artists. He now splits his time between homes near Sudbury, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec.

His latest book, a memoir titled, Permanent Astonishment won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction and was named a Globe & Mail Best Book.

He was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1994 and is also the winner of the 2022 Governor General's Performing Arts Award.

The concert takes place at St. Paul's Centre, 62 Peter St N, Orillia.

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