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Hamilton’s LIVELab: Extreme Surround Sound Tomorrow!

HELLO HAMILTON! You have seen Sultans of String at The Westdale… Now are you ready for EXTREME SURROUND SOUND?!?

We are showing our Cannes World Film Festival winning FILM called  Walking Through the Fire…. Tomorrow!

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27 at 7:30pm, at LIVELab – a cool space inside McMaster University. It is an engineering marvel.

The sound is going to absolutely blow your mind!  We are talking Extreeeeeme Surround Sound! They have 75 speakers surrounding the audience, so it will feel like you are sitting right in the middle of the band and orchestra.

And afterwards we will have Q&A with Marc Meriläinen, Shannon Thunderbird, Kate Dickson, and Grammy Award Winning engineer John Bailey.

Limited seating, book now …  https://www.showpass.com/walkingthroughfire/

 

You can watch my little video walking through the theatre here 

Check out the article in Hamilton Spectator here

and look for our feature on LIVELab and our film on CHCH Television today…

thanks for reading!

Description:

Walking Through the Fire: Visual Album is a visually stunning and transformative blend of interviews and music video that brings the magic of collaboration to the screen, with award-winning First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists from across Turtle Island working together with 3x JUNO nominees and Billboard charting Sultans of String to create something extraordinary.

The Premiere will feature opening remarks with filmmaker/Sultans of String producer Chris McKhool, and a Q&A after the film with Chris joined by Shannon Thunderbird, Marc Meriläinen, Kate Dickson, and John Bailey. Prepare to be absorbed by the captivating synergy and power of Walking Through the Fire as it takes you on a journey where cultures collide, boundaries dissolve, and the universal language of music unites us all.

From Métis fiddling to an East Coast Kitchen Party, rumba to rock, to the drumming of the Pacific Northwest, experience the beauty and diversity of music from Turtle Island with Elder and poet Dr. Duke Redbird, the Métis Fiddler Quartet, Ojibwe/Finnish Singer-Songwriter Marc Meriläinen (Nadjiwan), Coast Tsm’syen Singer Shannon Thunderbird, The North Sound from the Prairies, Blues singer Crystal Shawanda, Heavy-Wood guitarist Don Ross, Northern Cree pow wow group, Dene singer-songwriter Leela Gilday, Inuit Throat Singers and more, in this musical film experience unlike any other. 82 Minutes.