A warning: The following piece includes references to suicide. When Elisapie thinks of her hometown of Salluit, she can almost hear the breeze. "It's like you can always be purified," she says. "You ...

Phillip Blanchett didn’t really sing in front of others as a kid. He had allergies, and breathing was difficult. He remembers doing a solo at his church once and, well, “I try not to say that it was ...

For more than a decade, Beatrice Deer has mixed traditional Inuit throat singing and indie-rock in a style that she cleverly calls "Inuindie." Half-Inuk and half-Mohawk, her voice is slinky and raw, ...

In the Inuit language, tusarnitut means “sounds that please the ear.” It’s a fitting title for a new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts focused on the power of songs and music in Inuit art ...

Traditional and contemporary music is a vibrant part of Inuit society. Inuit visual artists often portray traditional drummers, singers, and dancers in their works, highlighting the ways such ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Halfway through their concert at the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the band Pamyua paused to throw in an Arctic game demonstration. Peter ...

"Transcriptions and investigations of traditional songs from the Thule Area recorded by Erik Holtved in 1937 and Michael Hauser and Bent Jensen in 1962. Further investigations with music examples of ...

*LOS ANGELES, CA – Alaska’s highly acclaimed Inuit musical group Pamyua, will make their Los Angeles concert debut when they headline the inaugural Los Angeles Global Music Festival, taking place on ...

The Juno Award-winning Inuit musician, based in Montreal, imbued her favorite childhood songs with new meaning on her covers project, Inuktitut. How Elisapie turned 10 classic rock hits into ‘true ...

Phillip Blanchett didn’t really sing in front of others as a kid. He had allergies, and breathing was difficult. He remembers doing a solo at his church once and, well, “I try not to say that it was ...