Due to health issues, singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie will no longer perform live
Due to health issues, singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie will no longer perform live.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Buffy Sainte-Marie has declared her decision to stop performing live.
She gave several reasons for her choice, including health issues brought on by travel and physical difficulties that interfere with performance.
Sainte-Marie said in a message on social media on Thursday saying her shoulder injury and arthritic hands “have made it no longer possible to perform to my standards.”
She has already been replaced by someone else for a British Columbia music festival that will take place soon.
According to the City of Burnaby, Fleet Foxes, an American indie-folk group, will replace Sainte-Marie at the Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival on August 12. The city issued a statement saying, “We wish her the best of health, along with all of her fans.”
In September, the musician said that her shows in Ottawa and Vancouver were a part of what was “probably going to be her last tour.”
After a difficult summer that included a COVID-19 infection and being stranded at the airport at least twice due to several airline delays and cancellations, Sainte-Marie stated at the time that she was reducing her flying.
“I’m not saying that I’m never going to perform again,” she remarked. “It’s not like ‘She’s retiring,'” I’m not involved in business. I’ve retired numerous times without ever using the word retire.
“I will simply hang it up.”
The 82-year-old Cree artist and activist was adopted by an American family in Massachusetts but has roots in Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle Valley.
As the co-writer of Up Where We Belong for An Officer and a Gentleman in 1982, Sainte-Marie became the first member of an indigenous group to receive an Oscar.
She also had numerous Juno nominations, and in 2015, her album Power in the Blood won the Polaris Music Prize.
In 1995, she was admitted to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
