Artists to celebrate: Billy Simard

Angela Misri
150 Days of Turtle Island
1 min readAug 21, 2017

Billy Simard was born and raised in Manigotagan on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, attended a residential school in northern Manitoba and has won MACA songwriter of the year, won in the first Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards in Toronto, and was inducted into the Manitoba Aboriginal Music Hall of Fame. Take a listen and you’ll see why.

http://www.aboriginalmusicweek.ca/artist-directory/complete-directory/display,artist/152/billy-simard

http://www.manitobamusic.com/billysimard

http://rpm.fm/artist/billy-simard/

https://www.reverbnation.com/billysimard

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Angela Misri
150 Days of Turtle Island

Journalist, author of the Portia Adams Adventure series, Podcaster at Ada’s Sisters who teaches at Ryerson and the University of Toronto.