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A celebration of life will be held for Manitoba Métis music icon Ray St. Germain on Saturday at 1:30 p.m., at Calvary Temple, the Manitoba Métis Federation announced Friday.
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Along with presentations and remembrances of St. Germain from friends and family, there will be musical performances paying tribute to his long musical career and honouring his legacy. The ceremony is open to the public.
The celebration of life for Ray St. Germain will also be livestreamed on the MMF YouTube site: https://www.youtube.com/@ManitobaMetisMMF.
The singer, television and radio host passed away quietly late last month at the age of 83 at Deer Lodge Care Home, surrounded by family and dear friends, after a years-long battle with Parkinson’s disease,
The street his childhood home is on, St. Michael Road, was given the honorary title of Big Sky Country way at a ceremony he attended on June 7.
St. Germain hosted television series Big Sky Country, known as Ray St. Germain Country and My Kind of Country in earlier incarnations, for 13 seasons. He also hosted a radio call-in show, Metis Hour x2 for NCI, for 20-plus years.
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