Cabaret Mashtu

MUSIQUE NOMADE presents a new musical discovery evening in collaboration with MONTREAL FIRST PEOPLES' FESTIVAL: CABARET MASHTU. This showcase offers the three new Indigenous artists the opportunity to present their project, in an intimate format, in a mythical place in Montreal.

Open to all

Karen Pinette Fontaine

Karen Pinette Fontaine is an Innu from the community of Uashat mak Mani-utenam. The singer-songwriter and performer has a folk-pop style, but each of her songs have their unique sound. Music has been part of her life since she was a child and she started playing with a collective. In her solo show, she is accompanying herself with a ukulele, which gives a particular color to her songs. She mainly practices her compositions at home and is inspiring herself by her own life experience.

Willie Nab

Willie Nab is a Naskapi-Cree artist from the Kawawachikamach community located at the north end of the North Shore. At the age of four, Willie began to learn to play the keyboard and then, at the age of twelve, he learned guitar and bass. At thirteen, he composed his first song, in collaboration with Tshishapeu Vachon. Willie Nab has participated several times at the Innu Nikamu Festival in Maliotenam but has also been on television several times. He has appeared on an Indigenous musical talent show, TAM, and also on Chic-Choc, a TV magazine for young First Nations Francophones in Quebec. The artist is currently recording an album at Studio Makusham (Florent Vollant).