Brenda MacIntyre, Medicine Song Woman

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Brenda MacIntyre aka Medicine Song Woman has shared her evocative melodic voice and fusion of reggae, rap and indigenous hand drumming on stages across North America. The London Ontario-based Juno Award-winning singer has been featured on national TV and the Toronto Star front page.

Short Bio

Known by her Indigenous name Medicine Song Woman, Brenda MacIntyre has shared her evocative melodic voice, hand drumming and unique healing music across Turtle Island. The London Ontario-based Juno Award-winning singer reached the CBC Searchlight2020 TOP 100, was nominated for the 2021 Ontario Arts Council Indigenous Arts Award and is a 2021 Powwow Pitch semi-finalist. Her recent media features include CityNews Toronto, Global News and a Toronto Star front page headline. After losing her parents as a teenager and her son to murder in 2016, Brenda has developed a 13 Moon resilience program based on her healing music to help women rewire their brain, body and mind with love, hope, possibility and purpose especially during challenging times.

Long Bio

Known by her Anishnaabe name Medicine Song Woman, Brenda MacIntyre has shared her evocative melodic voice, healing music, Indigenous hand drumming and spiritual teachings with appreciative audiences of 30 to 3,000 across North America. The London Ontario-based Juno Award-winning singer and keynote speaker has been featured on CTV, CityNews Toronto, APTN, Global and a 2019 front page headline in the Toronto Star. She was in the CBC Searchlight 2020 Top 100 and is currently a 2021 Powwow Pitch semi-finalist.

Her original Indigenous roots reggae fusion music dishes out healing vibes over a platter of earthy enchanting rhythms. Her vocals weave between a smooth Sade vibe and the melodic uplifting feel of reggae queen Marcia Griffiths. Her unique Medicine Song Healing™ concerts, circles and private sessions invite you deep into potent, spontaneous healing soundscapes. She speaks and sings to create awareness and healing for people affected by grief, chronic pain, identity loss or trauma.

Nominated for the 2021 Ontario Arts Council Indigenous Arts Award and 2019 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize, she has also received nods from past Indigenous Music Awards, Canadian Reggae Music Awards, Canadian Folk Music Awards and Canadian Indies. She was also Toronto’s Aboriginal Businesswoman of the Year in 2007.

Brenda MacIntyre’s career as a singer and songwriter began in 1985 when she moved to Toronto after both parents had died in BC. Her first single charted as a “hot new item” on North Miami’s Top 40 station WPOW 96FM. Under the stage name Special Ice, she dropped a second single “Rock a Talk,” which was featured on Juno Award-winning compilation CD “The Gathering” (Attic Records).

She is livestream-ready and has performed and spoken at venues across North America, including the Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival, Toronto Union Station, California State University, RBC, BMO and in 2021, Our Roots & Beyond Festival and Drums Across Canada (Celebration of Nations).

Dedicated to homicide loss survivors and her son Quinn who was murdered in 2016, Brenda’s latest album “Picking Up the Pieces” will bring tears to your eyes and a smile to your face with its message of love, hope and possibility. Her 2021 peace anthem “Together We Can Stand Up” calls us all to stand together to co-create a new world of belonging and sharing with each other.

Through her signature Medicine Song Healing work, keynote speaking, and her Picking Up the Pieces 13 Moon Resilience and Reawakening program, Brenda MacIntyre specializes in helping women empaths to get through trauma, grief and exhaustion, while embodying resilience and reawakening to the gifts they carry.

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