Tom Wilson Tehohåhake Trio

Event Description

Tom Wilson Tehohåhake Trio
DOORS OPEN: 7pm
SHOW: 7:45pm
Catch the 7pm, 5:40pm or earlier ferry from Kingston.
Advance Tickets: $40 + HST & service charge – CLICK HERE

Tom Wilson Tehohåhake (two roads) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, famed storyteller and visual artist. Wilson’s memoir, Beautiful Scars, published by Penguin/Random House, is a national bestseller and has been adapted into a TVO Original documentary directed by Shane Belcourt. More recently, Hamilton’s Theatre Aquarius completed a successful run of Beautiful Scars, the musical adapted to the stage in collaboration with actor/writer Shaun Smyth. Exposing incredible truths about Wilson’s biological family and Indigenous heritage, Beautiful Scars delves into the singer-songwriter’s lifetime quest to find himself and ultimately uncover his true identity as a Mohawk man.

“Over the course of discovering my true identity, the intention of my writing, my music and my art is to reduce the gap between my indigenous culture and colonialists to make a more patient, loving community.”
– Tom Wilson

Musically, Wilson is best known for his work with Blackie & The Rodeo Kings and Lee Harvey Osmond, the latter receiving a 2020 Juno Award for the album Mohawk. His band Junkhouse formed in 1989 and scored eleven top-ten hits. The style and success of Junkhouse has been an inspiration to many young Hamilton artists. Wilson recorded his first solo album Planet Love (2001) for Sony Music. He has written for and recorded songs with Sarah McLachlan, City and Colour, Jason Isbell, Colin James, Lucinda Williams, Billy Ray Cyrus, Mavis Staples, and The Rankin Family, to name a few.