Created and directed by Marie Clements
...three magnificent divas--[Jennifer] Kreisberg, Cheri Maracle, and Michelle St. John...combined fierceness and vocal power [to] quite literally "take [our] words away" (to paraphrase the song...)...a powerful experience...
Peter Dickinson - Performance, Place and Politics
The Three Divas: (L-R) Cheri Maracle, Jennifer Kreisberg, Michelle St. John
...a powerful wall of sound and fury. The band is kicking it and [the] girls are bringing it.
The show looks slick... - OutTV
February 5-7, 2015 at the York Theatre, Vancouver, BC
Premiere production | Produced by red diva projects in association with Visceral Visions
Presented with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, The Cultch and Touchstone Theatre
Visceral Visions proudly co-produced the premiere of Marie Clements's ravishing Aboriginal blues-rock multimedia musical at the 2015 PuSh Festival, featuring 17 top Aboriginal performers. Inspired by decades of activism chronicled in The Native Voice, a newspaper published by Canada's oldest active Aboriginal organization, the Native Brotherhood (and Sisterhood) of British Columbia, The Road Forward is also a moving tribute to the Indigenous women who disappeared along the Highway of Tears.
Marie Clements, Writer / Director / Producer 
Jennifer Kreisberg, Lead Composer / Musical Director
Wayne Lavallee, Guest Composer / Band Leader
Valerie Sing Turner, Assistant Director / Producer
Samira Rose, Stage Manager
Connie Watts, Set Design
Paul Armstrong, Lighting Design
Jamie Griffiths, Multimedia Design
Rob Scharein, 3D Specialist
Performers
Jennifer Kreisberg, Vocals
Michelle St. John, Vocals
Cheri Maracle, Vocals
Wayne Lavallee, Guitar / Vocals
Murray Porter, Keyboard / Vocals
Ronnie Dean Harris, Guest Composer / Vocals
Richard Brown, Drummer / Vocals
Shakti Hayes, Bass Guitar / Vocals
Russell Wallace, Vocals
JJ Lavallee, Guitar / Fiddle / Vocals
Corey Payette, Vocals
Nyla Carpentier, Dancer
Latash Maurice Nahanee, Contributing Composer / Vocals / Cultural Advisor
Delhia Nahanee, Contributing Composer / Vocals / Cultural Advisor
Amanda Nahanee, Vocals
Marissa Nahanee, Vocals
Wakinyan RedShirt, Vocals
Nyla Above: Nyla Carpentier, Dancer, and The Road Forward company (Photo credit: Tim Matheson)
Image, centre page: Ronnie Dean Harris (Photo credit: Tim Matheson)
