Sultans of String: Lost & Found
Lost and Found is the new video off the album Walking Through the Fire by Sultans of String and award-winning First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists from across Turtle Island. This song is written and sung by Ts’msyen Elder Shannon Thunderbird, who is originally from the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia: Gilut'sau Band of the Royal House of Niis'gumiik, Gispudwada (Orca) Clan. The music is arranged with Sultans of String and the epic strings of the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
“I wrote the song on June the 11th, 2020.” Shannon says. “By this time, the news had gone across Canada about the finding of the bones of our children from residential school horrors. And the first ones were from a residential school in Kamloops. I am a songwriter, and this one came so fast that I just got up, I grabbed my phone, I threw it on record. And I sat on the side of the bed and I sang it from beginning to end without stopping. And by this time, I barely got through it. I was in a lot of tears thinking about my grandmother, thinking about my mother, thinking about what happened to me. All of these things that came out of this horror that was done by the churches and the Canadian government. It is brutal, and it's real. And the sacrifice of these children, oh goodness. They won't be forgotten. They can't be. Innocents lost in the most heinous of ways.”