Inuit music spotlighted in Susan Aglukark’s Spotify playlist

Inuit music spotlighted in Susan Aglukark’s Spotify playlist

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Inuk singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark (still left) will be curating Spotify’s Indigenous music playlist each week in June to mark Indigenous History Thirty day period. This 7 days, some of the Inuit artists featured are (from best right down) Riit, duo PIQSIQ, and Tanya Tagaq. (File images)

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Famed Inuk singer-songwriter curating playlist for Indigenous History Month

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Madalyn Howitt

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To mark Indigenous Heritage Thirty day period, Inuk singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark will be using over Spotify’s Indigenous playlist for the month of June.

Each and every week on the new music streaming assistance, she will share 25 of her favorite tunes by Indigenous artists, and songs that focus on Indigenous concerns.

Originally from Arviat, Aglukark is amongst the greatest-identified Inuk singers in the earth.

An officer of the Buy of Canada, she was the to start with Inuk artist to get a Juno award and was a short while ago introduced the distinguished Juno Humanitarian Award for her do the job supporting Indigenous youth via the Arctic Rose Basis.

This week’s playlist highlights a number of tracks from Inuit artists:

  • Tanya Tagaq will make an appearance with the ethereal, experimental Snowblind off her 2019 album Toothsayer, inspired by the serious features of Nunavut’s winter
  • Electro-pop artist Riit, who following thirty day period will execute at Ottawa’s formal Canada Day celebrations, nets a location with a dreamy, piano-driven acoustic model of her song ataataga (Inuktitut for “father”) off her 2019 debut album of the exact
  • People-rock duo Twin Flames, who sing in Inuktitut, English and French, get a location with Pisuppunga off their 2020 album Omen
  • Ovddos/Hivumuuniq, a track by throat-singing duo PIQSIQ and Sámi artist VILDÁ, arrived from a People New music Canada project in 2021 that paired Canadian artists with intercontinental functions to collaborate on authentic tunes
  • Deantha Edmunds, an opera singer with roots in Nunatsiavut, is on the checklist singing Nutarâsuk, a collaboration with Tom Gordon and the classical songs of composer Friedrich Reichardt
  • Also, four tunes by Aglukark herself round out the Inuit highlights of the record (Be Established Absolutely free, O Siem, Walk with Me and Diamond Sun with Glass Tiger and David R. Maracle).

Other noteworthy artists bundled on this week’s playlist include Buffy Sainte-Marie, Leela Gilday of the Northwest Territories, William Prince, and the vintage rock band Redbone.

“I hope you delight in this audio and these artists as substantially as they have encouraged me,” Aglukark explained in a movie concept posted to the playlist.

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