Inuk singer-songwriter Elisapie moves between genres, languages in richly textured music

The ambassador for Inuit culture performs live as part of Decolonize the Chan series

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Elisapie. Photo by Vanessa Heins

Genre-bending multilingual singer Elisapie defies categorization. The singer-songwriter moves between Inuktitut, English, and French as she explores folk music, textural indie rock, poetics, and the breadth and depth of contemporary Indigenous culture.

The Chan Centre presents the groundbreaking artist on March 11 at 8 pm as part of the Decolonize the Chan series, supported by Presenting Sponsor RBC.

An ambassador for Inuit culture, Elisapie is a Juno-winning artist who “synthesizes stories from her eventful life with hypnotic arrangements that channel ’70s rock, Indigenous folk music and the low, moody rumble of barnstormers like Tom Waits and Morphine” (NPR).

In her graceful and urgent anthems of an Inuit ancestry that refuses erasure, Elisapie confronts the violence of colonialism while harnessing the deep strength that comes from Indigenous interconnectedness to the land, animals, and people. 

For tickets and more information, see Chan Centre.

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