2020 Featured Artists…
Buffy Sainte-Marie – 2020
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 – 2020
Skyrocketing Haisla Hip-hop stars Snotty Nose Rez Kids second and third albums were shortlisted for the Polaris Prize (more…)
Kinnie Starr – 2020
JUNO-winner Kinnie Starr, is a multi-threat songwriter, performer, visual artist, filmmaker and producer. (more…)
Shawnee – 2020
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 – 2020
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 – 2020
Trailblazing and award-winning Indigenous female rapper, academic and activist.
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The Spiritual Warriors – 2020
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 – 2020
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 – 2020
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 – 2020
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 – 2020
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 – 2020
Musqueam hip-hop artist Christie Lee Charles is Vancouver’s first Indigenous poet laureate.