By Will McGuirk

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From the pr:

Today, punk-rocker / folk storyteller Evan Redsky is sharing the new single, “Red Dress” on Red Dress Day, or National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S+).

“This song began as a tribute to women I knew and lost during my time working as an Indigenous youth worker in Toronto,” says Redsky. “It later took on new weight in response to the news coming out of Winnipeg a few years ago, and the ongoing reality of the MMIW crisis.

“I was feeling the exhaustion and frustration of the 24-hour news cycle, and the way stories like these so often receive fleeting attention despite their deep roots in our shared history. With this song, I leaned into the folk tradition of protest trying to create something grounded in that lineage, but shaped by my own lived experience.”