While he still calls his rural birthplace of Sioux Lookout home, Sherman spent much of his youth out on the land, moving between his hometown, the small First Nation community of Weagamow Lake, and his family’s trapline on North Caribou Lake. It was here in the depths of the Northern Ontario forest that his family members would play guitar as they tended their trapline, and Nick found himself soaking in songs and lyrics.   www.nicksherman.ca    https://youtu.be/9L7xWkVJ588

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Nick Sherman

Singersongwriter,

Nick Sherman, gives new

meaning to “the voice in the wilderness,” or rather,

the voice from the wilderness.

While he still calls his rural birthplace of Sioux

Lookout home, Sherman spent much of his youth

out on the land, moving between his hometown,

the small First Nation community of Weagamow

Lake, and his family’s trapline on North Caribou

Lake. It was here in the depths of the Northern

Ontario forest that his family members would play

guitar as they tended their trapline, and Nick found

himself soaking in songs and lyrics.

His songs are not only inspired by his memories of those early trapline sounds the

timeless hymns of

celebration and lamentation on his reserve but

by great songwriters including William Elliott Whitmore, Ray

LaMontagne, Sam Cooke, and Elvis Costello. His gentle voice is rich with honesty and the vitality of youth,

but tempered with worldweariness,

atop his strong, simple guitar. Nick's deeply personal songs about “the

best and worst days of the last four years,” are inspired by the lives of people in his community, his own

upbringing and life experiences as he now raises his own family in Canada's north. In this way his Indigenous

heritage resonates with soulbrushing

candour as he sings the boreal forest blues.

Notable Performances

Ottawa Bluesfest, 2015

Pan Am Games Aboriginal Pavilion, 2015

Folk Music Ontario (MFM Showcase), 2015

Calgary Folk Festival, 2014

Luminato Festival (Toronto, ON), 2014

Red Man Laughing Live Taping – CBC (Edmonton, AB), 2014

The Folk Exchange (Winnipeg Folk Festival Winter Series), 2014

Folk Music Ontario (MFM Showcase), 2014

Live From the Rock Folk Festival – Headliner (Red Rock, ON),

2013

Aboriginal Music Week (Winnipeg, MB), 2013

Folk Music Ontario (Toronto Blues Society Showcase), 2013

ImagineNATIVE Film Festival (Toronto, ON), 2012

Folk Music Ontario (Folk Music Canada Showcase), 2012

AMP Camp (Aboriginal Music Program), 2012

Trout Forest Music Festival (Ear Falls, ON), 2011

TV/Broadcasts

Song placement on Saving Hope (CTV), 2016

Aboriginal Peoples Choice Awards live performance

(APTN), 2013

Nagamowin featured artist (APTN), 2015

Song placement on Cashing In (APTN), 2015

Tours

Nick Sherman + Greenbank Trio tour (35 dates), 2015

Southern Ontario Fall Tour (8 dates), 2014

BC Summer Tour (5 dates), 2014

Red Man Laughing Tour (6 dates), 2013

CD Release Summer Tour (19 dates), 2012

EP Release Summer Tour (10 dates), 2011