Ep 5: One Nation, Many Storytellers

In this episode Matt Lemay is thrilled to welcome podcasting storyteller Jason McKay, the Wandering Metis, along with storytelling Metis fiddlers JJ Lavalee and Jordan Daniels.

And we’re thrilled to be coming to you again from the Tragically Hip's Bathouse studios.

It’s a beautiful 200 hundred year old stone inn along the shores of lake Ontario, near Kingston.

There Matt and his team have been working on a documentary and album with some of the best Metis musicians around. For more on that, definitely check out our previous episode, One Nation, Many Fiddlers.

On the week of this interview, I was joined at Bathouse by Jason MacKay, whose podcast for the Metis Nation Saskatchewan is called “The Wandering Metis.”

It is all about gathering the best Metis stories from his home province.

Storytelling, along with fiddles, is a cornerstone of Metis culture, and with the Wandering Metis in the house the stories just flowed, which is why we had to get Jason, Jordan and JJ around a table, on mics, talking and fiddling.

We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we had recording it.

For more on the work of the MNC, visit metisnation.ca