Vancouver Folk Music Festival

July 14 to 16, 2023

Medicine Singers featuring Daniel Monkman (Zoon) and Yonatan Gat with special guest Gord Grdina | US/CA

“Utterly cutting-edge and contemporary treatment of tradition. Puts an array of styles, traditions, and histories in thoughtful dialogue with one another” – PopMatters

The Medicine Singers groundbreaking sound embodies decades of musical genres influenced by Native American music, offering what Pitchfork called a “vivid new context for the sound of the powwow drum, highlighting the debt that rock music owes to Native American music,” while “detonating cultural walls,” according to the New Yorker.

Their live show is the stuff of legend – the Medicine Singers set up, often in-the-round with the audience encircling the band, and go into a trance-inducing set where the walls between band and spectator, as well as between psychedelic rock and shamanic chants, are blurred. Or in the words of Exclaim Magazine, “By letting the audience in on the action, [Medicine Singers] evoked a type of bodily experience that transcended mere observation.”

Their music connects experimental music and traditional powwow in previously unheard ways, acting as a guided tour de force, taking listeners through the many different musical styles with roots (still being discovered) in Native American music. From psychedelic punk to spiritual jazz, from minimalism to electronic music. Both concert and pure, entrancing, event – you must come be a part of the Medicine Singers experience.