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You got something on your mind/ then maybe you should come and say it
“I’ve always been a chameleon.I’ve changed genres so many times, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know who I am.The beautiful thing about music is it allows you to live vicariously through stories.I absorbed everything and now I can just be.”— Natasha Fisher Written by…
Returning Back to the Heart: How mitêh Changed Canadian Music Classrooms
“Shed a few tears watching kids play instruments and sing? Nothing will open the heart like a can of tuna than watching kids perform music.”— CBC Music Executive Producer and Music Class Challenge founder Kai Black As a non-status, light-skinned, motherless-tongued…
Punching Above Our Weight: In Conversation With Young Music Professionals’ Maddy Oliver
This month, the Indigenous Music Office spoke with Maddy Oliver, the Founder of Young Music Professionals and Interim Executive Director of the Canadian Live Music Association. Young Music Professionals is a networking collective that connects emerging music industry…
The Room Matters: Artist Development Inside the Allied Music Centre Residency
A conversation with Stephen McGrath on Artist Development, Trust and the Allied Music Centre Residency At the Indigenous Music Office, we pay close attention to the spaces where music creators are not only showcased, but also supported. This year marks the second year…
Who Said Radio Was Dead?
Why Indigenous-Owned Media Matters: A Conversation with Windspeaker’s Sandra Crowfoot In early December, the Indigenous Music Office sat down with Sandra Crowfoot, one of the emerging leaders behind Windspeaker Media , a powerhouse Indigenous-owned broadcaster with a…
Pathways to International Markets: A Strategy to Increase Export Capacity for Indigenous Music
Pathways to International Markets: A Strategy to Increase Export Capacity for Indigenous Music – Click to View Click the link above to review the study to develop a strategy to increase the export capacity of the Indigenous music sector.
Reconciliation Sounds Like This: Turning up the Volume on Indigenous Voices
When you press play on a song, you’re not only hearing music, you’re stepping into someone’s story. For Indigenous Peoples, our music carries many pieces of who we are, our language, our ceremony, and our distinct identity. Music is a way of keeping traditions alive…
Operations and Communications Manager – Applications Open
The Indigenous Music Officer (we/us/ours) is a music industry association for Indigenous people working in the music industry. Working on behalf of the Indigenous Music Office’s (IMO) Board of Directors, the Operations & Communications Manager is responsible for…
Bringing Back the Songs: Jeremy Pahl on Song Reclamation and Protection
For Ts’msyen musician Wil Uks Batsga G̱a̱laaw, translated in Sm’algyax as “where the cedar tree sticks out on the point facing the ocean” also known as Jeremy Pahl, music is never “just art.” It is tied to identity, memory, and ancestry. Today, his most important work…
The Next Verse: January Rogers Finds Her Rhythm Through Cultural Cadence
January Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora artist from Six Nations of the Grand River whose career has always been about amplifying Indigenous voices. A multi-disciplinary creator, she’s published seven books of poetry, including Splitting the Heart , Red Erotic , Totem…