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Byron Nicholai's new album, Ayagnera, was released in March. The songs, in Yugtun, are a mash up of the Toksook Bay artist's emotions and his varied interest in different kinds of mix. He says the Yup'ik drum and traditional dancing helped inspire the album.
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After a two year postponement due to COVID-19, the Cama-i Dance Festival returned to Bethel. Community members from across the state gathered to celebrate the return of yuraq.
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Rock Aak'w, an international Indigenous music festival featured multiple Alaska Native artists — including Ya Tseen, Pamyua and others.
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Fourteen musical acts will participate in an international Indigenous music festival based in Juneau. Alaska Native musicians will join several others in the virtual festival called Rock Aak’w. KNBA’s Tripp Crouse talks with one of the festival organizers Qacung Stephen Blanchett about putting together the lineup.
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Qacung Stephen Blanchett’s new album may be solo, but it has some big Indigenous pop super group energy.Qacung, who is one of the co-creators of the Inuit…
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A new musical project led by Sitka-based Nicholas Galanin has signed with legendary SubPop records. “Close the Distance” is the first single off the debut album for Ya Tseen, the latest project from Otis Calvin III, Zak D. Wass and Yéil Ya-Tseen Nicholas Galanin.
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The 2019 Tiny Desk Contest winner visits World Cafe and shares stories about the evolution of his career.
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In Interior Alaska, Athabascan fiddle music is a staple at social gatherings. At the 2019 Elders and Youth conference, elders taught young people how to…
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Quinn and his musical partner, guitarist and singer Nick Carpenter, arrived from the cool of Anchorage to the swelter of D.C. and performed with remarkable confidence and grace.
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An Anchorage singer-songwriter is the winner of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert contest. Quinn Christopherson beat out 6,000 entries from around the world with a…
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Hailing from Anchorage, Alaska, Christopherson is a thoughtful songwriter with a powerful sense of perspective.
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Experimental music group Indian Agent and two other artists with Alaska connections will contribute to a new compilation of music from the circumpolar…