![]() ![]() Likewise, Cartel Madras is an act also known to push boundaries. ![]() “It could ruffle a few feathers, but let them be ruffled,” said Schulman. When Ella Lamoureux takes to the Wild stage, it will be the first time any local festival has featured an Indigenous drag queen. Instead, it’s love and positivity wrapped in creative genius. They are clearly a reflection of the organizers’ own values, to reject the standard, the ordinary, the tried-and-true, racism, sexism, gender roles and all such narrow thinking. In choosing performers, Schulman says their music “has to be something that turns my ear.”īut it’s more than that. “She said she was amazed that we’d hired Indigenous, international, rainbow artists.” It’s a point of pride for Schulman that Kinnie Starr, Indigenous Juno-awarded artist and producer, recently wrote him a letter about the festival’s choices. Schulman is also well aware of the music industry’s notoriety for being far too full of “all-male, heterosexual performers and crew.” So, to tip the scale back toward gender equity, the Wild chose to make its whole Saturday program full of “non-binary and female-forward” acts. “So we’re showcasing artists who don’t fall into mainstream stereotypes, and those less considered.” “Social justice is important to us,” says Wild co-producer Avigdor Schulman. Or an Indigenous drag queen comedienne, hosting and MCing the Saturday line-up. Fresh musical ideas, pushing boundaries, making it intimate, keeping it uncrowded, flamboyant.
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