Brianna Lizotte’s interest in music came from growing up in a musical family, after her great uncles had passed she felt the need to carry on the family tradition and started playing the fiddle in 2011. Her love of music has her performing, teaching, and volunteering at many events today.
Brianna was actively involved with the Red Deer Royals Marching Showband for six years. She was involved in up to fifty performances a year, traveling to Europe for two tours, playing in the woodwind, front ensemble, and drumline sections. It was fiddling that really had her attention and in 2016, she received the Rising Star Award from The Alberta Men and Women of Country Music. In 2017, Brianna was one of eight women featured as a Bold Metis Woman for International Women’s Day by the Metis Nation of Alberta (MNA). In March 2018, her first CD Scratch ‘Em was released, featuring two self-penned tunes. In October 2018, was showcased as Emerging Artist with the Arts Touring Alliance of Alberta.
Brianna is currently in her second year as a teaching artist with the Music Alive Program with the National Arts Centre, a seasonal interpreter at Metis Crossing, and has started her own business Brianna Lizotte Music; which endeavors to donate fiddles for interested youth whom she meets throughout the year.
Brianna is attending Grant McEwan University in Edmonton for the Bachelor of Music Program and is currently working with the MNA giving fiddle lessons to youth over the fall season.
Photo and editing by Heather Fryer, Visions of Heaphen Photography IG
The bench is a place for families to wait for their missing loved ones. The winter scene is the condition now, but after winter is always the promise of spring, rebirth and change. The raven on the bench is a promise of that change to come.
Visions of Heaphen Photography along with Every Women Empowered, Missing Cara, Stolen Sisters & Brothers Awareness Movement and Aurora Hair and Makeup Artistry collaborated on a project to bring awareness of the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, Project Change.