Amazing Special Guests, Interactive Youth Workshops, 4 Juno-Winners, IndigiFilm Feast, 2-Spirit Artists – highlights of FREE Feast of Contemporary Indigenous Music and Culture in Lytton featuring 24 musical artists
Artistic Director Meeka Morgan (Secwepemc/Nuu-Chah-Nulth/Nlaka’pamux) today announced additional festival details and highlights, including the full schedule of performances (see below), a new Special Guest, the list of 2RMX Youth Interactive Workshops, Indigenous Films screening at 2RMX, as well as the prayer dedication by a Nlaka’pamux elder of the newly youth-painted Rainbow LGBTQ2 Crosswalk and Regeneration Tipi.
Film/video screenings at 2RMX include:
- The Road Forward by Marie Clements – a 2017 NFB music documentary about Indigenous activism featuring 2RMX emcee Ostwelve;
- The Ballad of Crowfoot – Canada’s First Music Video made in 1968 by Mi’kmaq musician, activist and NFB filmmaker Willie Dunn;
- First Stories: Two Spirited by Sharon A. Desjarlais – an inspiring documentary about a 2-Spirited Powwow Dancer;
- Finding Dawn by Christine Welsh – documentary that gives a human face to the tragedy of Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women and Girls;
- Nimmikaage (She Dances for People) by Michelle Latimer – Remixes archival footage with music of Tanya Tagaq to explore Indigenous identity and representation;
- RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World by Catherine Bainbridge.
- PLUS many amazing and award-winning music videos from our festival artists.
Interactive workshops with 2RMX festival artists include:
- Rez Bluez with Murray Porter and Elaine Bomberry,
- Salmon public art creation with the Wild Salmon Caravan,
- Live collaborative recording onsite with The Melawmen Collective,
- Maori movement and dance with Mana Taketake,
- Spoken Word workshop with Ecko Aleck,
- Music Heals with Hujune,
- “Diversity Makes Beautiful Music” with 2-Spirit DJ O Show.
’Q’emcin 2 Rivers Remix Highlights
SATURDAY, JULY 6
- Savage Society – Battle of the Birds, award-winning play based on a traditional Nlaka’pamux story, created by Kevin Loring, Artistic Director for Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre @FRASER St&6th (11:00am)
- Procession honouring the Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women and Men to the main 2RMX site @ 4th&Main (12:30pm) – Please Wear Red
- Welcome and prayer – including Nlaka’pamux dedication prayers for the newly youth-painted rainbow crosswalk at the 4th&Main festival entrance to welcome 2-Spirited artists and the new youth-painted Regeneration Tipi (1:00pm)
- Mana Taketake, a contemporary Maori performance group shares their vision of Maori dance, music and culture (1:30pm and 7:15pm)
- Hip hop in the round – collaborative hiphop session with Brandon Peters, Kiva Morgan-Hall, LeviD, Geo, Ostwelve, JB The First Lady (6:30pm)
- The Melawmen Collective – “All These Things” – Indigenous fusion new album release event (7:45pm)
- Old Soul Rebel – Fabulous female duo who were featured on CTV’s ‘The Launch’ (8:30pm)
- DJ Shub – formerly of A Tribe Called Red and the godfather of PowWowStep (9:30pm)
SUNDAY, JULY 7
- Wild Salmon Caravan – Salmon ceremony with Nlaka’pamux elders and Secwepemc Salmon song by Tara Willard (11:30am)
- Wild Salmon Procession to main 2RMX site @ 4th&Main to celebrate and honour Wild Salmon (12:30pm) – Please bring salmon masks and costumes and signs
- 2RMX Elders Series: Gordon Dick Sr., Willie Thrasher & Linda Saddleback, Ritchie & the Fendermen, Helene Duguay, and Juno-winner Murray Porter (3:15-7pm)
- Quantum Tangle – Contemporary Northern Indigenous soundscape, fusing 2-Spirit, Anishinaabe-Metis and Inuit roots (8:00pm)
- Curtis Clearsky & The Constellations – INDIGIFUNK at its groovy finest PLUS collaboration with Mana Taketake (9:00pm)
- Dj O Show – Two Spirit DJ brings down the House (10:00pm)
The 2RMX musical feast will showcase a diverse range of 24 contemporary Indigenous artists from hip-hop to folk, metal to blues, Indigifunk to electronic, rock to reggae. “More than half the lead performers are women, one-third are youth, while three artists are Two-Spirited,” said Meeka.
Be sure to put the July 6-7 weekend on your summer calendar. All are welcome! All ages!
What: ’Q’emcin 2 Rivers Remix, Free 2-day Contemporary Indigenous Music Feast
When: Saturday July 6 to Sunday July 7, 2019 1pm–11pm daily
Who: 24 Contemporary Indigenous Musical Artists performing a wide variety of genres
Where: 4th Street at Main in ’Q’emcin/Lytton BC – located on Nlaka’pamux unceded territory at the confluence of
the “Fraser” and “Thomson” rivers, 10km from Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux Heritage Park
How: 3 hours by car from Vancouver or 2 hours from Kamloops on Highway 1
Q’EMCIN 2 RIVERS REMIX SCHEDULE
*Timing is subject to change please ensure to check in early for the artists that you don’t want to miss.
Saturday, July 6th, 2019
9:45AM – FRASER St@6th: Yoga Workshop
11:00AM – FRASER St@6th: SAVAGE SOCIETY – Battle of the Birds – Please Wear Red
12:30PM – Procession to honour Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women/People to 4th@MAIN St
1:00PM – 4th@MAIN St: Welcome Prayer, Song & Youth drum Group
1:10PM – Dedication Prayer for new youth-painted Rainbow Crosswalk & Regneration Tipi
1:15PM – KHASTAN DRUMMERS [Lheidli T’enneh]
1:30PM – MANA TAKETAKE [Maori]
2:00PM – ECKO ALECK [Nlaka’pamux]
2:30PM – NIMKISH [‘Kwakwaka’wakw/Cree]
3:00PM – TA’KAIYA BLANEY [Tla’Amin]
3:45PM – BRANDON PETERS [St’atimc]
4:15PM – KIVA MORGAN-HALL [Secwepemc/Nuu-Chah-Nulth/Nlaka’pamux]
4:30PM – LEVI-D [Secwepemc/Cree]
5:00PM – GEO AKA THE VOICE [Secwepemc]
5:30PM – OSTWELVE [Sto:lo/St’atimc/Nlaka’pamux]
5:45PM – JB THE FIRST LADY [Nuxalk/Onondaga]
6:30PM – Hip-hop in the round
7:00PM – KHASTAN DRUMMERS [Lheidli T’enneh]
7:15PM – MANA TAKETAKE [Maori]
7:45PM – MELAWMEN COLLECTIVE [Secwepemc/Nuu-Chah-Nulth/Nlaka’pamux]
8:30PM – OLD SOUL REBEL [Cree/Kainai/Ojibwe]
9:30PM – DJ SHUB [Mohawk] with Dancer REBECCA SANGWAIS [Ochapowace]
11:00PM – Closing
Sunday, July 7th, 2019
10:30AM – FRASER St@6th: Yoga Workshop
11:30AM – FRASER St@6th: WILD SALMON CARAVAN – Salmon Ceremony
12:30PM – WILD SALMON CARAVAN – Wild Salmon Procession to 4th@MAIN St
1:00PM 4th@MAIN St: Welcome Prayer, Song & Youth drum Group
1:15PM – KHASTAN DRUMMERS [Lheidli T’enneh]
1:30PM – MANA TAKETAKE [Maori]
1:45PM – TARA WILLARD [Secwepemc]
2:00PM – LAURA GRIZZLYPAWS [St’atimc]
2:45PM – HUJUNE [Dakelh]
3:00PM – GORDON DICK SR. [St’atimc]
3:30PM – WILLIE THRASHER & LINDA SADDLEBACK [Inuvialuit/Métis]
4:30PM – GEORGE LEACH [St’atimc]
5:15PM – RITCHIE & THE FENDERMEN [Nlaka’pamux]
6:00PM – HELEN DUGUAY [Mi’kmaq]
6:15PM – MURRAY PORTER [Mohawk]
7:15PM – TRIBAL X [Cree/Musqueam]
8:00PM – QUANTUM TANGLE [Inuit/Anishinaabe/Métis]
9:00PM – CURTIS CLEARSKY & THE CONSTELLATIONZ with MANA TAKETAKE [Blackfoot/Anishinabe/Maori/Guarani]
10:00PM – DJ O SHOW [Skwxwu7mesh]
11:00PM – Closing