City Sounds Live: Ribbon Skirt, Larissa Desrosiers

Description

City Sounds Live is a travelling music festival, presented in partnership with BIAs and co-curators, in various neighbourhoods around the city of Ottawa. Created in 2021 thanks to funding from the City of Ottawa’s Economic Development Department, City Sounds Live promotes diverse local emerging artists and encourages economic growth. The concerts aim to provide residents and visitors of Ottawa with free, family-friendly, and inclusive outdoor live music experiences that foster community involvement, social cohesion, and increased spending in the surrounding areas. 

Program Details

Date: Saturday, August 31st 2024  
Venue: The Record Centre - 1099 Wellington Street West 
Time: 3pm-5pm 
Price: FREE (no ticket required)

Co-curated by First Crush and Congrego in collaboration with The Record Centre 

Programming

Ribbon Skirt (Montreal, QC) 

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. Ribbon Skirt (FKA Love Language) has shared stages with Dehd, Ombiigizi, Chad VanGaalen and Julie Doiron. 

Larissa Desrosiers 

Larissa Desrosiers is an emerging singer-songwriter from Couchiching First Nation in Treaty #3. She is a proud queer Anishinaabekwe who draws her inspiration from our constantly evolving human condition. She is a family member of MMIWG2ST+, who aims to hold space for survivors as well as victims. Larissa conveys her empathy as a storyteller; through feelings, whether it’s love, rage, pain, desire or sorrow. She offers this understanding of the world through her music and song.