'Q'EMCIN 2 Rivers Remix

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy 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. (more…)

Snotty Nose Rez Kids

Skyrocketing Haisla Hip-hop stars Snotty Nose Rez Kids second and third albums were shortlisted for the Polaris Prize (more…)

Kinnie Starr

JUNO-winner Kinnie Starr, is a multi-threat songwriter, performer, visual artist, filmmaker and producer. (more…)

Shawnee

Shawnee, 2-Spirit singer-songwriter, is winner of CBC Music’s 2020 Searchlight and named one of Billboard’s “LGBTQ2 Artists You Should Know.” (more…)

PIQSIQ

PIQSIQ perform eerie contemporary compositions incorporating Inuit throat-singing and live looping.

The two sisters from Yellowknife were part of another Contemporary Northern Indigenous fusion group – Quantum Tangle – who won a JUNO award. (more…)

Eekwol

Trailblazing and award-winning Indigenous female rapper, academic and activist.

The Spiritual Warriors

The Spiritual Warriors, formerly known as Kalan Wi, are a Father and Daughter team of Leroy and Daisy Joe from the Lil’wat Nation, they fuse the songs, chants and language of the Lil’wat/St’at’imc peoples with contemporary roots, reggae cultural music. (more…)

Curtis Clearsky & The Constellationz

Curtis Clear Sky and the Constellationz are Vancouver based with global backgrounds who create Indigifunk music and culture and it consists of Hip-hop, Funk, Latin-Funk, Soul, Ska, Reggae and Blues. (more…)

DJ Kookum

DJ Kookum (Cheyanna Kootenhayoo) is a Denesuline, Cree, and Nakota Sioux DJ and filmmaker based in Vancouver. Her DJing is blowing up anywhere from EDM, trap, moombaton, hip hop, rap, and R&B. (more…)

The Melawmen Collective

The Melawmen Collective collaborate on a fusion of hip-hop with musical manifestations and visions through performances and workshops. Melawmen in Secwepemcstin (Secwepemc language) means ‘medicine’ – the collective is ‘gathering’ medicine ~ to heal, share and expand. (more…)

Old Soul Rebel

Old Soul Rebel is the musical musings of Chelsea D.E. Johnson and Lola Whyte. They offer a raw blend of original soul music and bad ass rock ‘n roll and were featured on the second season of CTV’s “The Launch.” (more…)

Miss Christie Lee

Musqueam hip-hop artist Christie Lee Charles is Vancouver’s first Indigenous poet laureate.

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Murray Porter

Murray Porter is Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. He tells the Aboriginal side of history with a mixture of country, blues and humour. He’s a “red man, singing the black mans’ blues, living in a white man’s world!” (from his song “Colours”). (more…)

Helene Duguay

Helene is a legendary bass player, who use to play with ‘The Beatlettes’, an all female pop band in the 1960’s in Montreal. She brings many years experience tearing it up on stages throughout North America and Asia. (more…)

Sandy Scofield

Sandy Scofield is a multi-award winning composer, musician and singer. She has studied classical, jazz, African, Indonesian gamelan and electro-acoustic music. A Métis from the Saulteaux and Cree Nations, she hails from four generations of fiddlers, singers and musicians.

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Willy Thrasher & Linda Saddleback

Willie Thrasher is a gifted Inuk singer and songwriter living in Nanaimo, BC with his partner Linda Saddleback. Three of Thrasher’s songs appeared on the 2014 Grammy-nominated compilation, Native North America (Vol. 1), (more…)

Gordon Dick Sr.

Born in Mount Currie, BC, Gordon Dick was surrounded by a family that loved music. With that influence of his early years, he started a rock band called “Siwash Rock”. His song appeared on the Grammy-nominated compilation Native North America (Vol. 1). (more…)

JB the First Lady

Jerilynn Webster, aka JB the First Lady, is a member of the Nuxalk & Onondaga Nations. She is a Vancouver-based hip hop and spoken word artist, beat-boxer, cultural dancer and youth educator. (more…)

Lorelai Williams and Butterflies in Spirit

Butterflies in Spirit: Dance, Healing, & MMIWG builds on the years of community healing work Lorelei Williams has done with her dance group, Butterflies in Spirit. (more…)

Keliyah

Theresa has a BFA in Film Production from UBC. (more…)

Julie Bull

Julie Bull is Inuk from NunatuKavut, and currently lives on Epekwitk (PEI). (more…)

Jason Camp & The Posers

Jason Camp and The Posers plays what has been dubbed Post-Colonial Rage Rock. The band consists of three Haida madmen: (more…)

Edzi’u

Edzi’u is a 2S Tahltan and inland Tlingit sound artist, songwriter, composer. (more…)

Salt Water Hank

A member of the Gitga’at community, Tsimshian folk artist Saltwater Hank resurrects stories of the land, loss and absurd circumstance and shines them through a sepia lens, witnessing ageless characters with hearts and lives on the line. (more…)

Ostwelve

Emcee Ron Dean Harris aka Ostwelve, is a Stō:lo/St’át’imc/Nlaka’pamux multimedia artist based in Vancouver, BC. As hip-hop artist Ostwelve, he has performed in numerous festivals and has opened for acts such as Guru, K’naan, and Snoop Dogg (more…)

HUJUNE

Nenachailya. From the Dakelh Nation, we express gratitude to the Lakepm? and the organizers for engaging Indigenous nations in celebration, regenerating customs of sharing through our songs, our art, our ceremony. (more…)

Madelaine McCallum

MADELAINE MCCALLUM is a dancer originally from Ile a la Crosse, Saskatchewan.

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Ecko Aleck

Ecko Aleck is from the Nlakapa’mux Nation and raised with the Shishalh Nation. She has a lifetime background of culture, ceremonies, singing and dancing from Interior Salish and Coast Salish territories. (more…)

NIMKISH

NIMKISH is a Kwakwaka’wakw/Cree singer/songwriter based in Vancouver. She writes from a personal place of the trials of love and heartbreak. Her sound is a smooth blend of Pop and Future Bass with hints of layered R&B production. (more…)

Kalilah Rampanen

Kallah Rampanen comes from the western coast of British Columbia, Canada. Her heritage stems from the (Nuu-chah-nulth) territory on western Vancouver Island, Woodland Cree near Fort Mcmurrary and Finnish ancestry. (more…)

Kin Balam

Kin Balam, the path of the jaguar (Indigenous Maya/Lenca) is an unprecedented, groundbreaking musical project of world music, comprising of virtuoso Flamenco guitar, Afro Latin rhythms, Indigenous (Meso-American) instrumentation, Hip Hop of social political content, and improvisational elements of Jazz. (more…)

Kiva Morgan-Hall

Kiva Morgan-Hall is a Secwepemc/Nuu-Chah-Nulth youth grounded through the roots of his people. (more…)

Simbiyez Wilson & Remi

I’m a 22 year old musician coming at you with a new tune called Uncomfortably Comfortable. I’ve been writing and performing since I was 10 and don’t see a future without my jazzy/folk/pop jumble of music. Born and raised in Smithers BC.

Brandon Peters

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Levi-D

[Secwepemc/Cree] The youngest of Sundown and Savage House has been holding it down since the age of 14. With shows all over BC he’s known for his double-time raps and epic freestyles. (more…)