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Juno-winning singer-songwriter Celeigh Cardinal performs at the Shadbolt Centre, September 30

The 2020 Indigenous Artist of the Year appears live and via livestream on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

By Gail Johnson

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Celeigh Cardinal on September 30 at the Studio Theatre (6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby) live and via livestream at 8 pm PDT.

CELEIGH CARDINAL BRINGS her characteristic energy along with healing power of music to the Shadbolt stage on September 30, which marks the inaugural National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

The recipient of the 2020 Juno award for Indigenous Artist of the Year, the Alberta-based artist also received two 2020 Western Canadian Music Awards nominations, for Indigenous Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year.

With two full-length albums to her name—2019’s Stories from a Downtown Apartment and Everything and Nothing at all from 2017—Cardinal is now in the planning stages of another release.

For more information, see the Shadbolt Centre.

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