Logan Staats
DUNNVILLE—Tuesday, July 9, 2019 saw the Dunnville Farmer’s Market filled with music, inspiration, and conversations around water during the Great Art for Great Lakes Song for the Water workshop.
Logan Staats (above right) and Rob Lamothe have met with almost 200 people so far, listening to them talk about what water means to us. With the help of Suzie Miller, Six Nations Teacher, they’ve talked about treaties, turtles, mother earth, the moon, strawberries, pollution, politics, friends, family, and water.
Staats said, “What we’ve been doing is travelling around getting input, especially from students, and then taking that input and making sure it gets worked into the premise of the song we are going to write.”
Lamothe added, “We took info to schools to share but quickly learned that the students know as much as we do about the water, so we quickly said let’s just have a conversation … about water that gets documented and that’s where we are going to get the song from. It’s super organic, fully created from what happens and what comes out of the conversations.”
