Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity has added two free participant concerts for its Indigenous music residency Toga da wôhnagabi (Stories for the Future) on Feb. 26 and Feb. 28, 2026 at the Rolston Recital Hall on the Banff Centre campus, showcasing new songs by fourteen Indigenous artists created during the month-long residency and offering the public a chance to hear work that centres language, land and community connection.
The two concert listings appear on the Banff Centre events page and the residency’s program page, which also lays out the full residency schedule running Feb. 2–28, 2026 with remote sessions Feb. 2–6 and on-campus activity Feb. 9–28. The residency description says it is “a four-week hybrid Indigenous music residency that brings worldviews together from all four corners of Mother Earth” and that participants are “watched over by Buffalo Spirit,” language the Centre uses to frame the program’s focus on storytelling, language and land-based practice.
Toga da wôhnagabi is designed as a creation residency: participants take part in workshops, land-based engagement, one-on-one mentorship and a half-day studio recording session, and each performer is allotted up to 10 minutes on stage or the equivalent of three creative works in the final showcases. The program page lists faculty musicians and mentors including Dale Mac, Cheryl L’Hirondelle and Meghan Meisters (iskwē), and notes funders such as Heritage Canada, RBC and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Both concerts are listed as free and open to the public and will be held in Rolston Recital Hall, Banff Centre’s on-campus recital venue. The events page names the concerts as “Toga da wôhnagabi (Stories for the Future) Participant Concert 1” on Thu., Feb. 26 at 7:00 p.m. and “Participant Concert 2” on Sat., Feb. 28 at 7:00 p.m., with Feb. 28 also noted on the program page as the residency’s live final performance date.
Resident showcases are a regular part of Banff Centre’s music residencies, and the Toga da wôhnagabi concerts slot into a recent pattern of programming that highlights Indigenous-led creative projects and land-centred practice. The Centre itself has been under public scrutiny in recent years over governance issues; coverage of that background is separate from the residency listings, which present these concerts as part of the arts season rather than tied to any institutional developments.
