Ribbon Skirt | Blunt Chunks | Gallery | Reader: Aley Waterman

LV14 presents Ribbon Skirt (QC), Blunt Chunks (ON), Gallery (NL), and reader Aley Waterman (NL) at The Ship.

Doors 9pm / Show 9:30pm / $15 / 19+

Being both the Indian and the Cowboy is a tall order, but it’s the only way Anishinaabe singer Tashiina Buswa can see as a way to navigate a world that’s infected to its roots with colonial ideals. ‘Indian Cowboy’ takes the old Hollywood trope of Cowboys vs. Indians and injects it with nuance. Growing up with a foot in two worlds (one where Indigenous identity is held sacred and one where colonialism works to tear that idea down), Buswa muses on the duality of organized religion/Indigeneity, and staying connected to your culture in a world designed to destroy it. In their short time together as a band, Ribbon Skirt have played festivals across Canada including Sled Island, Sappyfest, NXNE, Flourish and Pop Montreal,…