Arts·Q with Tom Power

How Crystal Shawanda found her peace through song

The Juno-winning blues artist joins Q's Tom Power to discuss her powerful new track, This Peace.

In a Q interview, the Juno-winning blues artist discusses her powerful new track, This Peace

Headshot of Crystal Shawanda.
On May 27, you can catch Crystal Shawanda creating her new song, This Peace, on an episode of Amplify on APTN. (Wolfwalker Productions Inc.)

What do you do when the world around you is anything but calm? For the Juno-winning Indigenous blues artist Crystal Shawanda, the answer was to go inward. She joins Tom Power to talk about her powerful and deeply personal new track This Peace, which channels her family's strength, her culture and her own journey of self-discovery to find calm in the midst of life's storms.

The full interview with Crystal Shawanda is available on our podcast, Q with Tom Power. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.


Interview with Crystal Shawanda produced by Niza Lyapa Nondo.