Logan Staats

Mohawk folk and soul musician Logan Staats began as a diamond in the rough on the streets of Brantford, Ontario. He had no formal musical training, just a good ear and raw lyrical talent. He played the local circuit for years before his 2015 debut release, ‘Goodbye Goldia,’ an unvarnished yet hard-hitting folk album.

Logan Staats went on to win CTV’s ‘The Launch’ in 2018, gaining commercial success and touring across North America and Europe. But travelling the world can really open your eyes to what’s going on right at home, and the fight for Indigenous sovereignty has become a focal point for Staats in recent years. It all intermingles with the music—the passion, the rage, the love, and most of all, the healing. He’s making road-trippin’ music for those travelling ‘the red road,’ a path toward reconnecting and relearning Indigenous ways.

This is the philosophy behind his sophomore album, ‘A Light In The Attic,’ released in 2023. These songs are a healing salve, contemplatively composed and offered to listeners in need of comfort. Nowadays, he is busy at work recording his third album in Nashville. While there, he’s also been playing regularly at Southern Rounds and writing with James Otto and Wyatt Durette.

For Logan Staats, music is a healing salve, contemplatively composed and offered to those in need of comfort. In his unvarnished, sometimes painful reflection on great personal struggle, Logan Staats has found himself. After many long years on the move, on the road and at the front lines of Indigenous rights movements across Northern Turtle Island, Staats has finally returned home. A voice of peace for his community, for the confederacy chiefs and matriarchs, this proud Mohawk country and folk songwriter has fought for his people, and for his own peace of mind.

Staats’ music has been recognized with a JUNO Award nomination, multiple Native American Music Awards, and the SOCAN Indigenous Songwriter of the Year award. Nowadays, he splits his time between his home community of Six Nations and Nashville, where he is working on a renegade country-influenced third album.