Elora Centre for the Arts and Riverfest Elora announce OMBIIGIZI as the 2024 “Creative Roots Artist of the Year” – Grand 101.1 FM

Aug 13, 2024

ELORA — The Elora Centre for the Arts and Riverfest Elora are pleased to announce OMBIIGIZI as the recipient of the 2024 “Creative Roots Artist of the Year” award.

Presented annually to an artist or group performing at Riverfest Elora (Aug. 16-18), the award recognizes artists who have built strong creative roots in their community — by inspiring, nurturing or mentoring fellow artists, supporting creative community-based initiatives, and blazing a creative trail for the next generation of artists to follow.

The Creative Roots Artist of the Year award is a nod to the creative roots of Riverfest Elora, which began in 2009 as a one-night fundraiser for the Elora Centre for the Arts. Since then, it has grown to become one of Ontario’s premiere music festivals and continues to support the local arts community to this day.

OMBIIGIZI (pronounced om-BEE-ga-ZAY) — meaning “this is noisy” — is the project of Canadian duo Adam Sturgeon (Status/Non-Status) and Daniel Monkman (Zoon), Anishnaabe artists who explore their cultural histories through sound. Their JUNO-nominated and Polaris Prize–short-listed debut album, Sewn Back Together, was produced in part by Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew at the Tragically Hip’s Bathouse Recording Studio. Their highly anticipated follow-up album will be released later this year.

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