Sandy Scofield

Sandy Scofield is Metis/Cree/Saulteaux artist/composer based in Vancouver. She has been performing professionally since 1986 and hails from four generations of fiddlers and singers. She recently released her fourth album Nikawiy Askiy (Mother Earth in Cree) in April 2007 on Arbor Records/EMI Canada. Amongst her previous three recordings, she has won four Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, received two consecutive Juno nominations and took home the 2003 Western Canadian Music Award for Ketwam, featuring songs by Sandy, Lisa Sazama and Shakti Hayes. Sandy has fronted many bands in her day - from rockabilly to cajun and zydeco to highly accomplished folk-rock, jazz and vocal ensembles. She has performed nationally and internationally in Seoul Korea, Australia, Vienna Austria, France, Washington DC's Smithsonian Institute as well as touring Germany. She has composed for theatre and dance and her voice and songs have appeared in numerous films and documentaries. She is described as "a complex artist who can effortlessly move from centuries old aboriginal vocal styles to satiny pop to robust rhythm & blues and rock. Like a transforming trickster, Sandy uses melody and beautiful harmonies to carry weighty messages. Her keen ear for original arrangements, her experience articulated in powerful lyrics, and her beautiful vocal instrument combine to form a growing body of incisive musical works which touch contemporary audiences of all cultures. She is also blessed with a sense of humour and a born theatricality, both of which find their way out on stage." Summer 2007 she was in Ghana Africa studying African Music and performing at the Canadian High Commission on July 1 in Accra, Ghana. Her women's group Iskwew with singers Brenda Hanson and Kym Gouchie were invited to perform at the Third Annual International Chihuahua Festival in Mexico in August of 2007.