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How Inuit culture helped unlock power of classical score for Inupiaq violinist

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 16:37 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 16:42
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An Inuk violinist and academic is giving a concert and lecture in Montreal in February with a view to showcasing

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Winnipeg Art Gallery in Canada plans huge outdoor art projection in run up to Inuit art space opening

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 15:20
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The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)  in the Canadian province of Manitoba is planning huge outdoor projection of Inuit art starting

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Iceland relaxes COVID-19 restrictions for the arts, allows rehearsals to resume

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, August 28, 2020 at 15:08
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Iceland has relaxed some of its COVID-19 restrictions for the arts, allowing performers, musicians and filmmakers to resume rehearsals as

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) RCI 

Nunavut throat singer Riit a finalist for the Canadian SOCAN Songwriting Prize

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 17, 2020 at 09:51 — Last Updated: Friday, July 17, 2020 at 10:53
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Inuk electropop musician Rita Claire Mike-Murphy is a finalist for this year’s SOCAN Songwriting Prize. This year is the 15th

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) 

Kelly Fraser, acclaimed Canadian Inuk singer, was ‘fiercely open with her fans,’ says family

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 30, 2019 at 13:41
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Family confirms the 26-year-old, who was from Nunavut and had been living in Winnipeg, died by suicide Kelly Fraser, the

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) 

Kelly Fraser, Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter, dead at 26

CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 27, 2019 at 12:15
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Kelly Fraser, an acclaimed Inuk singer-songwriter born in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, who had been living in Winnipeg, has died at age 26. Fraser’s advocacy

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Culture Culture (Finland) Finland 

Sámi rapper Ailu Valle wins Finnish state art prize

Yle News
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2019 at 15:40
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An indigenous hip-hop musician and a disability rights activist are among the winners of this year’s state arts prizes. Hip-hop

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

Twin Flames hope to use music to revitalize Indigenous languages, storytelling

CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 5, 2019 at 16:38 — Last Updated: Monday, August 5, 2019 at 16:40
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When Chelsey June and Jaaji take the stage as the band Twin Flames, they want to break down barriers and

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

Inuk soprano Deantha Edmunds, from Atlantic Canada, embraces all the things that make her who she is

Heather Barrett, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 1, 2019 at 06:30
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When Deantha Edmunds left her hometown of Corner Brook a few decades ago, she took a little bit of her

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

A problem of popularity: How Canada’s northern musicians are hurt by lack of access

Jackson Weaver, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 17, 2019 at 11:41
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Andrew Morrison of The Jerry Cans is setting up to play what would be — for most bands with their

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General News 

Musician and children’s TV host Riit from Canada’s eastern Arctic recognized for her work

CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 15, 2019 at 11:35 — Last Updated: Monday, April 15, 2019 at 11:37
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Nunavut-based musician and Inuktitut-language TV host Rita Claire Mike-Murphy is being recognized for her work by the Youth Media Alliance.

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Cultural appropriation argument ‘brings us back a few steps,’ says head of Indigenous Music Awards

Lenard Monkman, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 11:13
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The woman who runs the Manito Ahbee festival said she doesn’t believe cultural appropriation is possible within the Indigenous community,

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General News 

Inuit artists boycott Indigenous Music Awards over cultural appropriation concerns

Lenard Monkman, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 14:28
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A group of Inuit artists are pulling their support from the Indigenous Music Awards over concerns that a First Nations

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Culture Culture (Norway) General News Norway 

Norway sends song with Sami joik to Eurovision Song Contest

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 11, 2019 at 12:21 — Last Updated: Friday, March 15, 2019 at 12:31
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KEiiNO, a Norwegian-Sami group mixing pop, electronica, dance and joik, was crowned as winner of the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix

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Art Art (Canada) Canada Culture General News 

Canada mourns death of legendary Inuk singer Charlie Panigoniak

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 16:17
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Legendary singer-songwriter Charlie Panigoniak has died. Panigoniak, who was born near Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, was a household name in the

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