Digging Roots

For over a decade, two-time JUNO Award winners Digging Roots have traveled the world with a joyful message of resistance, celebrating Anishinabe and Onkwehón:we traditions of round dance and interconnectedness. As Roots Music Canada says, the band is "...badass, empowering and hopeful all at the same time." 

Digging Roots takes you on a journey through tall grasses, sweet waters, and into a joyous and powerful celebration of music. Their fourth album titled ‘Zhawenim’, is the Anishinabemowin translation of ‘unconditional love’. Led by the electrifying current of husband-and-wife team, ShoShona Kish and Raven Kanatakta, the six piece band responds to a majestic and spiritual call from ShoShona’s earthy vocals and Raven’s exhilarating guitar mastery through a fusion of Turtle Island blues, soul and rock n’roll. For long time fans or new audiences, their constantly evolving live show opens a space, wherever they may be in the world, for healing, compassion, unconditional love and Baamaadziwin (the good life). Constantly interweaving between drum culture and guitar dialects, Raven and ShoShona were raised in cultural families that have continued to resist oppression and colonialism.