Buffy Sainte-Marie teams with Owen Pallett and Toronto Symphony Orchestra
by Jesse Locke
October 1, 2015
The Polaris Prize winner is writing an original piece with Pallett and the TSO.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Buffy Sainte-Marie touches on Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and hanging out with goats instead of Kanye West.
The 74-year-old icon recently took home the Canadian equivalent of an EGOT with her 2015 Polaris Prize win added to an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Gemini, and a few Junos. Part of this year’s Polaris Prize included the chance to perform with the orchestra at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall in 2016, and Buffy will do just that in a new collaboration with Owen Pallett.
“I’m not sure what it’s going to be, but I like Owen, and his music always surprises me,” says Sainte-Marie. “Whether he’s coming from a real traditional, orchestral, almost European sound or something else, you can always tell that a real artist made it, and I’m really looking forward to working with him.”
Read the full interview here and watch her Polaris gala performances below: