Logan Staats

www.loganstaats.ca

@logan_staats

Born on the Six Nations Reserve and raised in the small ghost town of Brantford, Ontario – Logan Staats started writing and performing music in his early teens.

From a young age, Logan’s haunting and distinct voice has won him multiple opportunities to share the stage with acts like Buffy Sainte-Marie, Keith Secola and Mumford and Sons, to name a few.

Still a young man, Logan is regarded as an accomplished, multi-nominated and award winning artist. Forever a student of great music–Staats enjoys jamming, collaborating and learning from his contemporaries and other recording artists. A great example is a powerful late night live off the floor version of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice” in collaboration with peer Terra Lightfoot.

Logan is fresh off his win on The Launch, a new TV show, that gives Canadian singers a shot at stardom. Staats was chosen out of 10,000 applicants to be featured on the inaugural season of the series and was mentored by Canadian country megastar Shania Twain. The song that Staats performed is called, The Lucky Ones, and was written by Grammy nominated songwriter busbee.

Through the sharing of scientific information about Lake Erie and the Grand River, Logan and Rob will talk about the connections we have to water, how we all live here on the banks of the Grand, with emphasis on the idea that we are neighbours, and that the river and the lake connect us, physically and emotionally.

Facilitation will begin with collaborative song-writing workshops with 200 students, 25 at a time, in 4 schools, with 2 schools in Haldimand and 2 schools at Six Nations. Partnering with Suzie Miller, an Indigenous Coach with Grand Erie District School Board, Suzie will help secure access to classes, provide support in the schools and assist in talking circles with a wampum and feather. Two additional workshops will be open to the public–one in Haldimand and one at Six Nations. Each workshop is estimated to be between an hour and 90 minutes in length.