Logan Staats performs at the Zoetic Theatre for Concession Street BIA Sidewalk Sounds!

Staats is joined on stage by his sister Layla Black and band members Justine Fischer and Rob Lamothe. 

Logan Staats is a Juno award nominee, winner of CTV the Launch, winner of the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Awards and National Aboriginal Music Awards!

Logan Staats was born on the Six Nations Reserve and raised in the small ghost town of Brantford, Ontario. Logan Staats started writing and performing music in his early teens. From a young age, Logan’s haunting and distinct voice has won him multiple opportunities to share the stage with acts like Buffy Sainte-Marie, Keith Secola and Mumford and Sons, to name a few.

Still a young man, Logan is regarded as an accomplished, multi-nominated and an award winning artist. Forever a student of great music – Staats enjoys jamming, collaborating and learning from his contemporaries and other recording artists. A great example is a powerful late night live off the floor version of Bob Dylan’s“Don’t Think Twice” in collaboration with peer Terra Lightfoot.

Logan’s live performances are juxtaposed by a level of self-possession and control that still wildly careen through emotions of sadness, hope, longing and joy. A product of passion, compulsion and tireless musical commitment – Logan’s songs are his own. Armed with his guitar and harmonica, he has transitioned from running the weekend bar circuit to playing sold out venues across Canada including his favourite venue, The Sanderson Centre, in his hometown.

Logan is fresh off his win on The Launch, a new TV show that gives Canadian singers a shot at stardom. Staats was chosen out of 10,000 applicants to be featured on the inaugural season of the series, and was mentored by Canadian country megastar Shania Twain. The song that Staats performed is called The Lucky Ones, and was written by Grammny nominated songwriter busbee. What’s more, The Lucy Ones topped the Canadian charts as the number one song in the country the day after the release.

Ingrained with the mentality that anything is possible when you put your heart and soul into it, Staats is raising the bar for indigenous/mainstream crossover music.