Sat, Jun 08
|The Ship Pub
Willie Thrasher & Linda Saddleback | Jenina MacGillivray | Reader: Eva Crocker
LV14 presents Willie Thrasher & Linda Saddleback (BC), Jenina MacGillivray (NL), and reader Eva Crocker (NL) at The Ship.
Time & Location
Jun 08, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
The Ship Pub, 265 Duckworth St, St. John's, NL A1C 1G9, Canada
About the event
**Meg McLaughlin will sadly not be able to attend this year. Jenina MacGillivray has joined the bill in their place.
LV14 presents Willie Thrasher & Linda Saddleback (BC), Jenina MacGillivray (NL), and reader Eva Crocker (NL) at The Ship.
Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm / $25 / 19+
Willie Thrasher is a gifted Inuk singer and songwriter living in Nanaimo, BC with his partner Linda Saddleback. Three of Thrasher’s songs appeared on the 2014 Grammy-nominated compilation, Native North America (Vol. 1), renewing interest in his and other Indigenous artists’ work. Thrasher’s powerful 1981 debut album, Spirit Child, which the 3 songs came from, was then reissued in 2015. Thrasher was born in Aklavik, Northwest Territories, in 1948 and at five years of age, Thrasher was taken from his family and sent to a residential school where he was forbidden to practice his Inuvialuit culture. Music was a way for Thrasher…