5 Things to know about Polaris Prize and Juno award-winner Jeremy Dutcher's new album and tour to Calgary
Jeremy Dutcher talks about the creative process behind his first new music in five years. Jeremy Dutcher, Juno award-winner Jeremy Dutchers, has released his new album and tour to Calgary. The album, titled MOTEWOLONUWOK, is followed by a full-length album, featuring tenor, composer and musicologist Woloastoqiyik from Wolastokuk (Fredericton, New Brunswick) and Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation). The 11-track record was released by Montreal’s Secret City Records and features first forays into writing and singing in English. The full album is released on October 23 and includes DUTcher's first new music in five years. The project is all about Indigenous stories and revitalizing language.
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5 Things to know about Polaris Prize and Juno award-winner Jeremy Dutcher's new album and tour to Calgary
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5 Things to know about Polaris Prize and Juno award-winner Jeremy Dutcher's new album and tour to Calgary
is a classically trained tenor, composer and musicologist Woloastoqiyik member of the Wabanaki Confederacy hailing from Wolastokuk (Fredericton, New Brunswick) and Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation). He lives in Tiotià:kem, which is also known as Montreal.
5 Things to know about Polaris Prize and Juno award-winner Jeremy Dutcher's new album and tour to Calgary
It is followed by full-length album titled MOTEWOLONUWOK ᒣᑏᐧᐁᓓᓄᐧᐁᒃ. Released by Montreal’s Secret City Records, the 11-track record features Dutcher’s first forays into writing and singing in English. Tracks such as the moving Ancestors Too Young dives into the loss endemic in the modern Indigenous experience. Clearly, it’s not saccharine pop music. Prior to embarking on a cross-Canada tour, which brings him to Calgary’s Bella Concert Hall on Oct. 23, Dutcher talked about the creative process behind his first new music in five years.
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tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Here are five things to take away from that discussion. It’s exciting to be taking new music and telling new stories from coast to coast again. But, when a Canadian tour was proposed, I was given a list of all the provinces we were going to and had to ask, “What about the North?” This project is all about Indigenous stories and revitalizing language, so it should be getting taken to the source of such action. So one of the conditions was that we had to put together a Northern tour to really make it cross-Canada.
2 – Expanding the Indigenous conversation on MOTEWOLONUWOK ᒣᑏᐧᐁᓓᓄᐧᐁᒃ into other communities We keep drawing the circle wider and wider every time. This time, inspiration came from everything from Cherokee writer Qwo-li Driskill’s poetic verse “from the heavy debris of loss, together we emerge,” to other meetings with First Nations telling me about their art. The first album was very geared toward my Wolastoqey language-speaking family with no translations, to say, “Look at how beautiful we are and our language and old songs, and what if we took this old way to imagine ourselves in a new way.” It was a very particular conversation I was having. But having all these people who wanted to listen to it that had no entry point into the language made me decide why not use English to provide that access and include newcomer and settler communities in the content. I spend most of my daily life speaking English. I didn’t hold back on any interest in crafting the album. There is the backing group which has become an essential component after touring. There are orchestral contributions from people like Owen Pallett on Skicinuwihkuk, amazing choral contributions and others. The process of bringing in all of these different contacts I’ve met over the years was incredibly liberating, with artists even going as far as to learn some of my language and more. If I could only fly a 12-member choir and strings around with me and these heavy jazz improvisers in the band, I would. It’s a bit unnerving to expand the sonic range into these other realms because the first record was such a clear and singular story based on a research project. Moving from me and a piano at the start to the band was a big change. I started this off like the great composers of old, working with the words of others. Now, I’ve gone even further, finding my English singing voice and writing my own lyrics. It’s been a journey I can’t wait to share. Jeremy Dutcher brings his MOTEWOLONUWOK ᒣᑏᐧᐁᓓᓄᐧᐁᒃ tour to Bella Concert Hall on Oct. 23.
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