The Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board is pleased to present Logan Staats, Wednesday June 6, at the James Mason Memorial Culture and Recreation Centre, 47 French Bay Rd, Southampton.

Logan is of Mohawk culture, born on the Six Nations Reserve and raised in Brantford. Logan started writing and performing music in his early teens. From a young age, Logan's haunting and distinct voice has won him multiple opportunities to share the stage with acts like Buffy Sainte-Marie, Keith Secola and Mumford and Sons, to name a few. Most recently, he was the first winner of "The Launch", a new TV show that gives Canadian singers a shot at stardom. Staats was chosen out of 10,000 applicants to be featured on the inaugural season of the series, and was mentored by Canadian country megastar Shania Twain. The song that Staats performed is called The Lucky Ones, and was written by Grammny nominated songwriter busbee. What's more, The Lucky Ones topped the Canadian charts as the number one song in the country the day after the release.

Ingrained with the mentality that anything is possible when you put your heart and soul into it, Staats is intent on raising the bar for indigenous/mainstream crossover music.

Indigenous Education Lead Theresa Coburn reached out to him to showcase the talent of our Indigenous people. "He is contemporary and therefore relatable for our intermediate youth. I don't want to only focus on historical Indigenous culture and European contact, but also highlight the perseverance, hope and true gifts of Indigenous culture today and how it enriches our lives."

The event June 6 on the Saugeen Reserve will begin and noon, and will be a combination of song and chat. All grade eight students in our system have been invited, along with the students in our secondary Native Studies classes, and members of the Saugeen Reserve Community. We hope you will be able to join us.

source: media release, BGCDSB