Amanda Rheaume – The Truth We Hold

Amanda Rheaume, a Citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, is an award winning singer-songwriter with a slightly gritty, deeply personal and instantly accessible Americana sound.

In title and spirit, The Truth We Hold is a collection of songs of Métis people, places and stories across centuries. A Métis songbook for future generations, the new album maps events, place names and family history with a careful, loving hand, drawing untold and unacknowledged experiences into the light.

Amanda Rheaume is the recipient of the 2024 Spirit of Folk Award, 2023 Canadian Fold Music Award for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year and the 2023 Capital Music Awards’ Album of the Year. Rheaume has released six full-length albums to date. Beyond recording and touring, Rheaume continues her ever-expanding role as an essential advocate of Indigenous music infrastructure and community. As a co-founder of Ishkode Records and International Indigenous Music Summit and founding board member of the Indigenous Music Office, a commitment to raising Indigenous sovereignty through the medicine of music motivates all of Rheaume’s work. 

Website: amandarheaume.com
bandcamp.com/album/the-truth-we-hold

All songs produced and mixed by: Colin Linden
All songs mastered by: Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound (Edgewater, New Jersey)
All songs recorded at: Jukasa Studios (Six Nations, Ontario) and Pinhead Recorders Studios (Nashville, TN)

Janice Powers: Production Assistant
Darren Magierowski: Engineer at Jukasa Studios
Jill Zimmermann: Engineer at Jukasa Studios
Scott Dibble: Guitar whisperer
Michael Stankiewicz: Additional engineering

“Rheaume’s voice is a balancing act of strength and vulnerability, cutting right through that welcome road-weary swing of the guitar and drums… great Americana, but even better, Rheaume is continuing to change the canon of what stories that genre tends to tell”

— Holly Gordon, CBC Music