Gary Farmer has been an actor for 33 years in such films as POWWOW HIGHWAY, DEAD MAN, THE SCORE, SMOKE SIGNALS and spent years on stage in the theatre primarily in Toronto, Ontario.  Farmer has been a harp player since a teenager and matured into a jammer with bands in towns across Canada and the United States.  His influences include John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, BB King, Etta James, Jesse Ed Davis, Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite, Dr. John, Willie Dixon and Taj Mahal.

    But as a Native American--Cayuga of the Six Nations Confederacy—most influential were the many blues players of his own Native community such as Sid Hill, Faron John and Derek Miller. “The Iroquois Confederacy is composed of the Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, Seneca and the Tuscarora who were in the fields when the African slave trade arrived in America,” said Farmer.  “The blues is Native-American influenced, too, and I'm digging deep to expose those roots.  It's our music, our common history.”

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