Red Sky Performance. Underworlds.

Underworlds follows the Anishnaabe (Ojibway) hero Cheeby-Aub-Oozoo whose mythic descent to the underworld bequeaths music and dream quests to the land of the living. Underworlds is based on the mythology born from Canada's soil; and is unique to the Indigenous Canadian cultural experience.

Red Sky's Artistic Director and performer Sandra Laronde and world class master composer Antonio Zepeda, along with Native Canadian mezzo soprano Marion Newman and Ojibway traditional singers Eddy Robinson and Derrick Bressette, reveal through live music, song and dramatic storytelling this mystical being who is an essential force in the world of the Ojibway.

Underworlds, a world premiere double bill of Red Sky and the Toronto Consort, is the signature event of the Metamorphosis Festival 2005 - a city-wide festival of transformation and the arts.

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Photo Collage by Carolyn Quan

“A vivid illustration of the transformative power of music and song.”
(Toronto Star)

“Underworlds has so much going for it: the story of Cheeby-Aub-Oozoo is intriguing and the narration by the beautiful Sandra Laronde is strong and stately. Marion Newman’s singing and frame drumming is consistently well-focused and well-executed with the solid traditional singers Eddy Robinson and Derrick Bressette...Zepeda truly occupies centre stage.”
(Live Music Report)

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