I was haunted by a character. The character is a young Métis woman from 1930s Batoche who hears jazz on the radio for the first time and discovers that she's connected to the outside world. Dreaming beyond her community, dreaming beyond her family, she wants to connect.
It was a story that came through me, songs first, and I had no idea that it was going to become a play. I'd never written a song before; I'd never written a play before. It was something that came from deep inside me that had to be written.