Recognized for her dynamic style, passionate compositions, and vivacious stage presence, Darla Daniels is a Métis Fiddler, singer-songwriter, actress, and championship Red River Jigger. From Buffalo Lake Métis Settlement, Darla is celebrating 20 years of sharing her love for Traditional Métis Fiddle music while cultivating a new, vibrant style of her own. She can be found kicking up dust with Edmonton-based Country band, Justin Sutton & North of 49, or performing in the 2024 season of the globally-renowned Stratford Festival in their bold, world premiere of The Diviners, bringing Indigenous narratives to the forefront. She has performed on the stages of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, Newport Celtic Rock Festival and the one-and-only Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but today, she is here with you.
Notable Performances
THE DIVINERS, Stratford Festival - Stratford, ON 2024
International Indigenous Music Summit - Toronto, ON 2024
Beaumont Music Festival - 2024
Alberta Métis Fest - Métis Crossing, AB 2024
Edmonton Folk Music Festival – 2017, 2023
Okimaw Awards - Edmonton, AB - 2023
Servus Heritage Festival – Edmonton, AB 2010-2011, 2013, 2023
Taste of Edmonton – 2017
The Festival of Stars - Bashaw, AB 2009, 2010 & 2014
Mardi Gras - New Orleans, LA 2013
Capital Ex (Klondike Days) - Edmonton, AB 2008, 2009 & 2013
Great Blue Heron Music Festival – Sherman, NY 2012
Newport Celtic Rock Festival – Newport, RI 2012
South Buffalo Irish Festival – Buffalo, NY 2012
The Esquao Awards – Edmonton, AB 2009 & 2011
International Métis Festival – International Peace Gardens, ND 2011
Calvin Vollrath Annual CD Release Gala – Fort Saskatchewan, AB 2010 & 2011
Back to Batoche Days – Batoche, SK 2006 - 2010
Me to We Youth Leadership Conference - Cold Lake, AB 2009
The International Polar Year Launch - Ottawa, ON 2007
Artists Opened For:
Snotty Nose Rez Kids | Gary Allan | The Road Hammers | The Prairie States | Ashley MacIsaac | Susan Aglukark | Eileen Ivers | Brandi Carlisle | Shawn Desman
Media
Underground Radio C - 2024
CFWE - 2023
CJWE - 2023
“Strings With a Dream” – APTN 2012
Global Edmonton 2009-2011
CBC Radio – 2009-2011
“The Mix” – APTN 2009
Big Dog 103.5 – Newcap Radio 2009
Discography/Recordings
“Nôcikiwikamikosihk” - W.T. Goodspirit 2024
“Dancing Along", “Do You Wanna?”, 2023- Trent Agecoutay
From Feel to Flare, 2009
Bowing to Tradition, 2008
Awards
MSGC Arts & Culture 2023
Nominee and finalist for the Alberta Aboriginal Youth Achievement Awards - Culture and Heritage 2011
The Young Woman of Vision Award - Grant MacEwan University, 2010
Overall Grand Championship Red River Jig - JA Fiddle Fest, 2009
The Aboriginal Youth Female Role Model Award - CNFC, 2008