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2RMX MOVABLE FEAST Tl'kemtsin
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm T - 10:00 pm T View in my time
Location
Lytton Battlefield
1675 St. Georges Rd, Lytton BC
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The FREE 2 Rivers Remix (2RMX) MOVABLE FEAST of contemporary Indigenous music and culture will hit the trail to declare “WE ARE STILL HERE” with an astonishing line
Event Details
The FREE 2 Rivers Remix (2RMX) MOVABLE FEAST of contemporary Indigenous music and culture will hit the trail to declare “WE ARE STILL HERE” with an astonishing line up of more than 40 Indigenous cultural warriors. 2RMX MOVABLE FEAST micro-festivals will culturally nourish the 5 Indigenous Interior Canyon communities of Tl’kemtsin (aka Lytton) on June 30, St’at’imc (aka Lillooet) on July 2, Tuckkwiowhum (Boston Bar) on July 4, T’Kemlups (Kamloops) on July 6 and St’uxwtews (Cache Creek) starting on July 8. 2RMX feels eternally grateful to be hosted in the neighbouring territories of our brothers and sisters after the Lytton Fire consumed our Nlaka’pamux host community on June 30, 2021.
Line up:
4:00 – 4:15 MC: Ronnie Dean Harris Welcome & Prayer by LFN
4:15 – 4:45 Big Willie G
5- 5:30 The Spiritual Warriors
5:40 – 6:10 Ecko Aleck
6:20 – 6:40 Butterflies in Spirit
6:45 – 7:15 Eekwol and T-Rhyme
7:25-7:45 Geo The Voice
7:45 – 8:15 The Melawmen Collective
8:25 – 9:25 Ritchie and The Fendermen
9:30 – 10 Curtis Clearsky & The Constellations
2RMX has pivoted to a 2022 MOVABLE FEAST because of the catastrophic fire that destroyed our previous live festival site – along with 90% of Tl’kemtsin/Lytton. 2 Rivers Remix Society continues to support our affected Indigenous communities that have in the last year suffered from waves of the COVID pandemic, catastrophic wildfires/flooding/infrastructure destruction and the confirmations of hundreds more unmarked graves at Indian Residential Schools across Turtle Island (following the 215+ at T’Kemlups).
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Indigenous Artists for this Event!
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Big Willie G
Big Willie G
[‘Namgis/Kwakwaka’wakw/Nlaka’pamux]
Garret T. Willie is a 21-year-old Blues, Rock, and Country folk musician. He grew up listening to the Blues greats Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Johnny Cash. You can feel it in his ability to tell his life stories in songwriting. Born in Campbell River BC, his music showcases the complexities, hardships and tenacity of a 1st Nations youth and how he’s turned that into a zeal for life.
[‘Namgis/Kwakwaka’wakw/Nlaka’pamux]
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Curtis Clear Sky and the Constellationz
Curtis Clear Sky and the Constellationz
[Blackfoot/Anishinabe/ Maori/Guarani]
Curtis Clear Sky and the Constellationz captivate audiences with their funky rhythms, thundering percussion, blasting horns, soulful harmonies with empowering lyrics that gratify your soul. Their highly-engaging performance will make you “bump with the booming blasting blare”, “you’ll be moving your feet like you don‘t care”. You can find Curtis Clear Sky and the Constellationz latest album Indigifunk that features Juno Award winning Mohawk Bluesman Murray Porter on their single “Turtle Island”. Indigifunk is available on all digital streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple music. In 2020 Curtis Clear Sky and the Constellationz are developing a new album with super talented Indigenous musician Beaver Thomas and they will highlight news songs at the upcoming 2 Rivers Remix Virtual Feast show.
[Blackfoot/Anishinabe/ Maori/Guarani]
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Ecko Aleck
Ecko Aleck
[Nlakapamux]
Ecko Aleck is from the Nlaka’pamux nation – Grizzly Bear clan, living on Pentlatch territory on Vancouver Island. Ecko is the artist and visionary behind Sacred Matriarch Productions. Initially launching her performing artistry with her english name Ecko, she is transitioning to take the stage as “Sacred Matriarch” for future shows and performances.
Sacred Matriarch music can be described as the bridging between the ancestral world and modern times with a spicy addition of BIPOC truth-bombs woven with Indigenous hip hop or as Ecko likes to call it – IndigeHop.
Ecko’s first EP launched December, 2019 and her next album is in the works for a release date later this fall/winter.[Nlakapamux]
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Eekwol and T-Rhyme
Eekwol and T-Rhyme
[nehiyaw/Dene]
Eekwol and T-Rhyme are seasoned rappers from nehiyaw and Dene territories, currently living in Saskatoon. The For Women By Women Project (FWBW) was born out of an awakening and realization that in our music, we need to create the dialogue and steer the narratives to be our own truths. As a nehiyaw iskwewuk (Indigenous women) we are living the results of the damage that colonization placed on our families. Guided by the intentions of creating a good life and a protected path for our daughters, we are changing the story, one rhyme at a time. With beats by Justin Knight, Shane Keepness and Doc Blaze, FWBW is the beginning of a movement. We’re here to lift consciousness, not asses. We’re here to reflect our matriarchal ancestors, not in a bathroom mirror selfie. We are here to recognize our power.
[nehiyaw/Dene]
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Geo AKA The Voice
Geo AKA The Voice
[Secwepemc/Cree]
George Ignace ~ Geo aka The Voice~, (Vocals, Beats) is Secwepemc and Cree, began working with The Melawmen Collective in 2007 through projects as artist, facilitator and producer.
He is also a prolific wordsmith, a talented visual artist, and has collaborated on written published works, as well as other film projects, and practices his traditional culture through harvesting and processing traditional foods.
[Secwepemc/Cree]
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Ritchie & The Fendermen
Ritchie & The Fendermen
[Nlaka’pamux]
[Nlaka’pamux]
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The Melawmen Collective
The Melawmen Collective
[Secwepemc/ Nuu-Chah-Nulth/ Nlaka’pamux]
A contemporary Indigenous alternative fusion woven together with elements of hip/trip-hop, rock/folk, righteous rhymes and rich harmonies, carried through with experience, manifestation, and visions of intergenerational stories of pain and healing. The Melawmen Collective brings a uniqueness to their sound like no other, drawing in a wide variety of listeners through sharing their own journeys of life through their musical evolution together. ‘Melawmen’ means medicine in the Secwepemc language, and the unceded territory of the Secwepemc People in what is now known as BC, is where co-founders Meeka Morgan (vocals, Secwepemc/Nuu-Chah-Nulth), Rob Hall (Vocals, Ghengis Ghandi’s, Ashcroft), Geo Ignace aka Geo The Voice (Vocals, Secwepemc/Cree), and Kiva Morgan-Hall (Vocals, Secwepemc/Nuu-Chah-Nulth), continue to grow. The collective is honoured to be joined by Cass Gregg (Bass, Tŝilhqot’in) and Victor Laso (Drums, Republic of Chile).
[Secwepemc/ Nuu-Chah-Nulth/ Nlaka’pamux]
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The Spiritual Warriors
The Spiritual Warriors
[Lil’wat]
The internationally acclaimed music group, The Spiritual Warriors, create music inspired by the land and life in the coastal mountains of the Lil’wat Nation. With their unique blend of indigenous chants and contemporary roots, rock, reggae, the Spiritual Warriors are distinctly west coast. The band perform most of their songs in Ucwalmícwts and are passionate about preserving and promoting their language and culture. The uplifting reggae rhythm only underlines the beautiful harmonizing of the vocals sung bilingually in English and Ucwalmícwts the Lil’wat language. The Spiritual Warriors, formerly known as Kalan Wi, are led by father and daughter, Leroy (vocals, guitar) and Daisy Joe(vocals) and accompanied by founding member Rich Doucet on drums, Mike Rowe on Bass, Cuyler Biller on guitar, Quentin De Lorenzis on keys and Leonard Fisher on percussion. The band regularly collaborates with other first nation artists and musicians to write and perform live. Ancestors’ their debut album was released in 2019 and has received 4 nominations at the Native American Music Awards in New York and won for Best World Recording. This truly unique band will take you on a cultural journey to the natural heartbeat of the Indigenous drum and the St’at’imc people.
[Lil’wat]
Organizer
2 Rivers Remix Society
2 Rivers Remix Society is the instigator and organiser of The 2 Rivers Remix (2RMX), an annual 3-day Feast of contemporary Indigenous Music and Culture. Since its incorporation in 2018 2RMX was hosted by the Nlaka’pamux Nation in Tl’kemtsin/Lytton, BC, until the devastating fire that incinerated most of our host community in 2021. In 2022, 2 Rivers Remix Society evolved towards a decentralised, Indigenised feast model called the "Movable Feast", that brings a series of contemporary Indigenous music and culture events direct to multiple small indigenous communities across BC.