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Movable Feast Cook's Ferry
tue06jun1:00 pm Ttue9:00 pm TMovable Feast Cook's Ferrybring the children home!
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(Tuesday) 1:00 pm T - 9:00 pm T View in my time
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CHIEF TETLENITSA OUTDOOR THEATRE
7975 Kumcheen Rd Spences Bridge BC V0K 2L0
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2RMX’s 2023 ‘Movable Feast’ series of contemporary Indigenous music and culture events continues with The Spring Movable Feast ‘Bring The Children Home’ tour, showcasing a wide variety
Event Details
2RMX’s 2023 ‘Movable Feast’ series of contemporary Indigenous music and culture events continues with The Spring Movable Feast ‘Bring The Children Home’ tour, showcasing a wide variety of contemporary Indigenous music, of many ages, genres and genders. Experience the healing powers of music as we travel to Tuckkwiowhum Village, Shulus, Neskonlith, and Cook’s Ferry.
The tour begins on May 31st at Tuckkwiowhum Heritage Village (near Boston Bar) with an outstanding group of survivor and youth artists, including Rez Bluez Master Murray Porter and legendary bass playin’ rocker Helene Duguay, Gerald Charlie and Black Owl Blues performing his iconic “Survivor Blues,” and the fantastic guitar and lyrical storytelling of The Margit Sky Project. IniInuvialuit rocker and activist Willie Thrasher and Linda Saddleback will give a foot-stomping performance, along Kiva MH’s hip-hop messages of youth and hope, the one and only Geo aka The Voice, and A’aLiya, with her soulful Sto:lo R&B activation. Be there when the legendary Lytton rockers Richie and The Fendermen meet the Métis dancing whirlwind Madelaine McCallum which is sure to bring the people to their feet!
2RMX is also delighted to introduce (at Neskonlith) Secwepemc songstress Tara Willard and her river songs, and Kitasoo/Xais’xais Nation member Hayley Wallis & The Brighter Futures, with their pop R&B raw vulnerability and dynamic vocal range! We welcome back Dakelh women activators Hujune, Lil’wat reggae realness The Spiritual Warriors, the hip hop and harmonies of Secwepemc-based fusion The Melawmen Collective, performance storyteller SacRed aka Ecko Aleck, and Blues Guitar Phenom Garrett T Willie.
For the last 3 dates, we are joined by the original pow wow dubstep master, DJ SHUB!!!
Our Movable Feast Spring Tour reflects on the theme of: ‘Bring the Children Home’, which we do in our lives as Indigenous peoples, as the number of unmarked re(un)covered graves across Turtle Island reach into the thousands. When we meet, gather and share our unique yet relatable experiences about the true conditions of our lives, we weave them into a new creation: Ones the ancestors transmitted through millennia to bring us to now.
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Indigenous Artists for this Event!
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Á’a:líya
Á’a:líya
[Stó:lō]
Á’a:líya is a proud member of the Stó:lō Nation and grew up in her community, the Skowkale First Nation. She has worked in and around Vancouver as an activist and hip-hop artist for 17 years. She is also a filmmaker and recently graduated from UBC’s Master of Film Production Program.
Á’a:líya is a storyteller addressing both modern and traditional narratives from her unique perspective as an Indigenous woman through music, poetry and now as a filmmaker. She has travelled across Canada and the US doing performances, for community events both big and small. Her writing focuses on her own experiences dealing with her own life struggles, mental health, relationships, and triumphs.
She’s passionate about art and what it can do to spread messages of empowerment and love to people of all backgrounds and ages.
[Stó:lō]
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DJ SHUB
DJ SHUB
[Mohawk]
2022 Contemporary Indigenous Juno-winner, DJ Shub has pioneered a growing genre of electronic music – PowWowStep – since his initial start with internationally-acclaimed group A Tribe Called Red. Born Dan General, he is a Mohawk, turtle clan of the Six Nations of the Grand River located in Ontario, Canada. Since the creation of PowWowStep, he has grown more aware of the Indigenous way of life through his music, merging his heritage with his craft. As a solo artist, DJ Shub released his first EP “PowWowStep” in 2016 and has since played some of the biggest music festivals in North America. He’s also been featured in a number of national media outlets. His song “Indomitable” was notably handpicked by Sacha Baron Cohen as the theme music to his hit Showtime series, “Who Is America?”
[Mohawk]
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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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Garret T. Willie
Garret T. Willie
[Nlaka’pamux/‘Namgis/Kwakwaka’wakw/]
Garret T. Willie is an old soul masquerading as an uncommonly wise, weathered, witty and world-weary 23-year-old. He’s about to give rock ‘n’ roll a formidable 21st -century kick in the ass with plenty of wild, heartbreaking, and hilarious stories to share in true rock ‘n’ roll form.
Garret T. Willie hails from Kingcome Inlet, off the coast of British Columbia. He’s been through some serious sh*t and lived through a lot more than most of us have at his age. But while Willie’s back story also gives him more right than most to sing the blues – and at heart, Garret T. Willie is a rock ‘n’ roller – he’d rather that not be the whole story.
Willie is the personification of an open book in the lyric sheet to his upcoming debut record Same Pain. Through his songs, there’s a helluva lot of raunchy fun going on above and beyond the occasional exorcism of tragedy and trauma. To listen to Same Pain is to get to know him more than you might be aware, but also to find a friendly, sensitive voice with a gift for transmitting universal emotions. Willie gets himself, and in doing so kinda gets all of us. He also knows what makes the blues tick. And, man, can he rip it up on the guitar.
[Nlaka’pamux/‘Namgis/Kwakwaka’wakw/]
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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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Kiva MH
Kiva MH
[Secwepemc/ Nuu-Chah-Nulth]
Kiva Morgan-Hall is a Secwepemc/Nuu-Chah-Nulth youth grounded through the roots of his people. He started his artistic solo and collaborative journey with The Melawmen Collective at the age of 7 years old, as a participant of their workshops (visual, song writing), then as a youth facilitator, and later as a working lyricist of the group as an early teen.
He is a trained traditional cultural Nuu-Chah-Nulth dancer and performer, and his young wisdom shines through his verses, time and time again, relating to all generations.
[Secwepemc/ Nuu-Chah-Nulth]
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Madelaine McCallum
Madelaine McCallum
[Metis]
MADELAINE MCCALLUM is a dancer originally from Ile a la Crosse, Saskatchewan. Though she is well known for Métis dance (she’s been jigging since she could walk!), she enjoys all forms including Pow Wow, contemporary, Hip Hop and just movement from the soul. Madelaine has performed for many stages. Performing was a natural progression into choreographing her first solo piece which includes Powwow dancing, contemporary and Metis Jigging.
Through many performance’s with her solo piece and collaborating with many dance/theatre companies such as Compaigni Vni Dansi, Dancing Earth and Full Circle etc. Her passion for dance has taken her all over Canada. Madelaine is currently one of the choreographers for Butterflies in Spirit, a dance group made up of family members of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Founded by Lorelei Williams. Madelaine has a passion for sharing her knowledge of dance and culture.
Madelaine also shares her story of survival and how dance has been her outlet and savior throughout her life. Her belief in sharing knowledge with her community to empower and strengthen them and her deep love of dance and firm belief in its healing powers, for the audience as well as the dancer, is what makes Madelaine McCallum such a name to look out for!
[Metis]
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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]
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Willie Thrasher & Linda Saddleback
Willie Thrasher & Linda Saddleback
[Inuvialuit]
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), renewing interest in his and other Indigenous artists’ work. Thrasher’s powerful 1981 debut album, Spirit Child, which the 3 songs came from, was then reissued in 2015.
Thrasher was born in Aklavik, Northwest Territories, in 1948 and at five years of age, Thrasher was taken from his family and sent to a residential school where he was forbidden to practice his Inuvialuit culture. Music was a way for Thrasher to escape the pain and longing. He has recorded both as a solo artist, and as a member of several bands, including The Cordells, and Red Cedar, with Morley Loon.
Thrasher has advocated for Inuit and First Nations issues for much of his career. Today, Thrasher performs at home and around the world with his partner Linda Saddleback due to the global attention garnered by Native North America (Vol. 1). Wherever he may be, Willie Thrasher is a trailblazing troubadour with an Indigenous heartbeat sound.
[Inuvialuit]
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.