Tom Wilson has never been one to stay in a single lane. He is a JUNO Award-winning musician, a bestselling author, a playwright, a Member of the Order of Canada, and an advocate for Indigenous visibility. He is also, without question, one of Canada’s most powerful visual artists. His latest solo exhibition, Blood Memory, opens at Beckett Fine Art in Hamilton, Ontario, from June 5 to 28, 2025, with a...
This past April, the personal odyssey of Indigenous Canadian musician Tom Wilson Tehahàhake hit a new milestone when his 2017 novel, Beautiful Scars: Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home—which had already been adapted into a 2022 film documentary—was presented as a stage musical at Hamilton’s Theatre Aquarius. Now, Wilson’s own take on one of the big numbers from that show, “Death Row Love Affair,” is being released as...
Tom Wilson’s identity crisis began in earnest at the age of 4, when his mother looked him square in the eye and told him “There are secrets I know about you that I’ll take to my grave.” What she meant, and how he finally figured it out, is a topic the Canadian writer-musician explored to stunning effect in his best-selling 2017 novel, Beautiful Scars: Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the...
Today, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, is announcing new appointments to the Order of Canada, including musicians ANDY KIM and TOM WILSON.
Since its creation in 1967, the Order of Canada has honoured these two musicians whose service has shaped our society, whose innovations have ignited our imaginations, and whose compassion has united our communities.
