Growing up in Garden Hill<\/a>, a remote fly in reservation community in Northern Manitoba, MattMac developed skill in hip-hop music production.<\/p>\n Further honing his skills since his 2016 debut \u201cHelp You See<\/a>\u201d, he recently released \u201cBlurred Visions<\/a>\u201d to excitement and acclaim. Grabbing the 2023 CBC Searchlight Competition Grand Prize<\/a>, and already working on his next release, it doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019s slowing down anytime soon.<\/p>\n Despite his current success, Monias continues to surmount challenges. Like most artists, he makes use of a computer while producing beats and recordings, though he does it without the aid of sight.<\/p>\n Advancements have been made in computer accessibility, but that doesn\u2019t mean it exists everywhere. He states, \u201cSo it\u2019s 2023. We talk about inclusion and all this stuff, but we're not up to a standard that\u2019s usable. A lot of what you can do on a computer, a blind person is able to do. Sometimes we\u2019ll come across a piece of software that isn\u2019t equipped to work with the screen reader, and sometimes you have to find workarounds to get around this accessibility issue.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the frustrations and pushing for inclusion, it isn\u2019t holding him back from making music you can groove to.<\/p>\n MattMac heads to Prince George this October 21st, performing for a ColdSnap winter festival event, Dak\u2019et Shun Inli, alongside Simbiyez Wilson and Zenon+ Listen to the radio program below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew Monias’s music career is moving at such a blistering pace that the momentum is taking him all the way over to Prince George BC. Known professionally as MattMac, he will be headlining Dak\u2019et Shun Inli (Music in the Fall), a ColdSnap Winter Festival event. Appearing alongside Simbiyez Wilson, and Zenon+ this October 21st at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":186851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,16830],"tags":[31485,31483,31482,5869,16899,741,6870,31484],"radio":[238],"origine":[280,264,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187129,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186849\/revisions\/187129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186849"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=186849"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=186849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"We](\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SS_07164-black-white-studio-333x500.jpg\")
Photo Credit - Skye Spence<\/p><\/div>\n