<p>“The title track tells of a special place in Fisher Bay, Manitoba. A muster point for the soul.” William Prince talks about his inspiration to make “Gospel First Nation,” and the inherent conflict presented in this music, which is at once a tool and symbol of colonization and oppression, and yet also the music of comfort and solace from his upbringing on Peguis Nation.</p>

“The title track tells of a special place in Fisher Bay, Manitoba. A muster point for the soul.” William Prince talks about his inspiration to make “Gospel First Nation,” and the inherent conflict presented in this music, which is at once a tool and symbol of colonization and oppression, and yet also the music of comfort and solace from his upbringing on Peguis Nation.

<p>“The title track tells of a special place in Fisher Bay, Manitoba. A muster point for the soul.”&nbsp;William Prince talks about his inspiration to make “Gospel First Nation,” and the inherent conflict presented in this music, which is at once a tool and symbol of colonization and oppression, and yet also the music of comfort and solace from his upbringing on Peguis Nation.</p>

S02 Episode 1

Season Two of the Sunday Verse is a companion piece to the new William Prince offering, “Gospel First Nation,” a 21st century Northern Interlake geographical sound imprint that tells stories of family and faith in the age of grief. 

This album has been a hundred years in the making. On the cover is the Prince Memorial Chapel, a one-room, wood-sided building which has stood in Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, Canada since 1929. The chapel, no longer in use, holds in its name a story of family, identity and history that began a century before the chapel was built, and will continue long after it falls apart. Over ten episodes, William Prince tells us this story through the music of his childhood, songs of faith, struggle and grace.

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Season Two of the Sunday Verse is a companion piece to the new William Prince offering, “Gospel First Nation,” a 21st century Northern Interlake geographical sound imprint that tells stories of family and faith in the age of grief. This album has been a hundred years in the making. On the cover is the Prince Memorial Chapel, a one-room, wood-sided building which has stood in Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, Canada since 1929. The chapel, no longer in use, holds in its name a story of family, identity and history that began a century before the chapel was built, and will continue long after it falls apart. Over ten episodes, William Prince tells us this story through the music of his childhood, songs of faith, struggle and grace.

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