Native Country, included collaborations with Canadian folk icon Bruce Cockburn, and he was actively involved in promoting Indigenous culture and issues through theatre, radio and television — including hosting Full Circle/First Nations Magazine for CKND-TV (now Global Winnipeg) in the 1980s.
Blind Oji-Cree musician ‘Mattmac’ drops first career album Shingoose was inducted into the Manitoba Music Hall of Fame in 2012, and gained wider recognition late in life due to his participation in 2014’s Native North America, a Grammy- and Polaris Prize-nominated project by Light in the Attic Records that compiled rare and out-of-print recordings by Indigenous artists.The label highlighted Shingoose’s efforts Tuesday to create an Aboriginal Music.