Buffy Sainte-Marie reflects on dynamic music career

By Alyssa Noel
Musician and activist set to perform in Whistler for the first time on Saturday, Aug. 24

To say Buffy Sainte-Marie has had a remarkable career would be an understatement. Now well into her 70s, the legendary musician and activist has won myriad industry awards-as well as receiving a mindboggling number of honourary degrees; spent five years working on Sesame Street; was blacklisted by American radio, as well as both the Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon administrations for her anti-Vietnam and pro-Indigenous rights efforts; and she even toted around a then-unknown Joni Mitchell’s demo tape in the ’60s, trying to get industry reps to listen to her.…

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August 21, 2019

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