Venus Fest: Lido Pimienta and Haudenosaunee People

venus fest: Lido Pimienta didn't release an album in 2017, but you'd never know it from the year she had, according to NOW Magazine. Though La Papessa came out in 2016, its mix of lush electronic soundscapes, virtuosic singing and Spanish white supremacy-dismantling lyrics resonated in major ways throughout the year. Lido Pimienta at Venus Fest. It doesn't hurt that the Colombian-born, Toronto-based artist's record won this year's Polaris Music Prize. She used her moment in the spotlight to speak up for immigrants, single mothers, the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee people on whose land the gala took place. That's a major feat for a totally independent release, not to mention one whose words are primarily sung in neither English nor French. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.