Shoshana Sperling has a repertoire of 1000 voices and has thrilled Toronto-area audiences with her solo monologues for years. She conceived of, co-wrote and performed two CD’s for children with her band The Monkey Bunch entitled “Sho, Mo and the Monkey Bunch” and “Power to the Little People” which was nominated for a Juno.

As freelance writer, Shoshana wrote 2 seasons of the family game show, Just Like Mom and Dad and has written for the National Post, Now Magazine, Elephant Journal and is a regular contributor to Today’s Parent and Chatalaine Magazine.

Toronto’s own Queer Songbook Orchestra are a renowned 12-piece chamber pop ensemble dedicated to exploring and uplifting 2SLGBTQ narrative through the lens of popular music. A highly active project, the QSO have played all throughout Canada and worked with an extensive list of collaborators, connecting an extraordinary community of queers and allies across the country. The QSO have released two albums, including the 2018 Polaris long listed collaboration with Vivek Shraya, Part-Time Woman.

Miranda Currie is a northern indigenous artist living and working in Sombe K’e, more widely known, as Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, among the Dene people. She walks in two worlds, with one foot in her Swampy Cree heritage and the other foot in her Euro-Canadian ancestry.

Nominated for aboriginal singer songwriter of the year by the Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2015 for Up In the Air, Miranda continued to hone her talents as a fiddle playing songstress while transitioning to the genre of children’s music. Her children’s album Bouncing in the Boreal was released in November of 2018, and toured schools in Yellowknife, NT, Thunder Bay, ON and Canmore, AB.

Miranda has been learning the Dene language of Tli’cho language since 2016. As a primary school teacher, she uses music to help students learn their indigenous language and culture. In addition to being a musician, Currie is an author, film-maker and is currently in development stages of a northern indigenous children’s television show. Miranda lives in a cozy shack on the shores of the Great Slave Lake with her two sled dogs, Niyanin and Ellesmere.