Possibly the most well-known Indigenous musician in Canada, Buffy Sainte-Marie, will B次元官网网址榬edlineB次元官网网址� a virtual Indigenous music festival in early September.
The 2 Rivers Remix festival has for the past two years been held in Lytton (B次元官网网址橯B次元官网网址檈mcin is the Indigenous name for the area) but will be going virtual this year due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions impacting all summer festivals in the province. The third edition of the festival, dubbed an B次元官网网址榦nline feast of contemporary Indigenous musicB次元官网网址�, will be streamed at and other streaming platforms Sept. 4 to 6.
B次元官网网址淏uffy Sainte-Marie is a cultural tour-de-force and a tireless social justice activist with multiple JUNO awards and a Polaris Prize as well as being the first Indigenous artist ever to win an Academy Award,B次元官网网址� an announcement from the festival team read. Sainte-Marie will deliver an exclusive performance Sept. 6.
B次元官网网址淔rom Universal Soldier, her definitive anti-war anthem, to her 2017 album Medicine Songs, Buffy Sainte-Marie makes us all feel stronger and more capable of seeing the world around us clearly,B次元官网网址� organizers stated. B次元官网网址淧art rhythmic healing, part trumpeting wakeup call, Medicine Songs is her soundtrack for the resistance.B次元官网网址�
Joining Sainte-Marie are a range of award-winning Indigenous musicians including Haisla hip hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids, originally from Kitimat. Their second and third albums were on the shortlist for the Polaris Prize B次元官网网址� Exclaim! magazine also named their album TRAPLINE one of the top 10 hip hop albums of 2019.
Inuit throat singers PIQSIQ will also be performing at the virtual feast. The Juno-winning sister-duo Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik have their roots in NunavutB次元官网网址檚 Kitikmeot and Kivalliq regions and grew up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. They perform both traditional Inuit songs and new compositions, involving improvised live looping in a sound they call B次元官网网址渉auntingB次元官网网址� and B次元官网网址渆thereal.B次元官网网址�
Thirty artists will perform over the three day virtual festival, a line-up which is all about reflecting the B次元官网网址榙iversity and strength of Indian countryB次元官网网址� organizers stated. Half of the performers are women, one third are youth and one-fifth are two-spirit artists.
B次元官网网址淚n the summer of COVID-19, Indigenous artists are reverberating and remixing the Interior Nations ChiefsB次元官网网址� 1910 declaration: B次元官网网址榃e will help each other be great and good,B次元官网网址橞次元官网网址� stated artistic director of the festival Meeka Morgan, who is of Secwepemc, Nuu-chah-nulth and NlakaB次元官网网址檖amux heritage.
Other artists on the line-up include two-spirit songwriter Shawnee, winner of the 2020 CBC Music Searchlight competition, and Juno-winning pop and conscious hip hop artist Kinnie Starr.
The festival also features an Elder series, bringing in artists including blues performer Murray Porter, Willie Thrasher, Linda Saddleback, Gordon Dick Sr. as well as Helene Duguay who was a member of the Quebec girl group the Beatlettes.
For people interested in delving into more of the BC Indigenous music scene during this summer can visit . The platform was launched to both highlight and support Indigenous artists during the pandemic.
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