Part three of Readers’ Choice presents five vital songs by performers ranging from edgy Finnish folk singers to an indigenous Ontario academic, poet and musician as well as two Iranian sisters singing a more than century-old protest song to rally resistance to government repression
A new anthology offers recognition and underlines the singer’s role in folk music
Scholar, indigenous activist, writer and musician Leanne Betasomasake Simpson’s latest album is a heartfelt cry of outrage about climate change
The lyrics Leanne Betasamosake Simpson wrote for her latest album – Theory of Ice – are powerful, eloquent and stand alone as a good read
