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Young Artist Summit for Indigenous Musicians
April 19, 2017Part of the National Arts Centre’s Music Alive Program, in partnership with the Canada Council and the East Coast Music Association April 27-30, Saint John, New Brunswick: The Summit will bring together 10 young indigenous artists from all four Atlantic Provinces to work with facilitators…
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Music Alive Program teaching artists come together to share, learn, and collaborate
November 9, 2016The NAC’s Music Alive Program, which brings local and visiting artists to mostly rural and remote schools and communities, was developed in partnership with local arts organizations and in consultation with school boards. It began in Alberta and Saskatchewan in 2008, then expanded to…
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Kugluktuk students share message of hope and support through music
August 22, 2016Gordon Kaniak, a high school student in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, wrote this powerful song, "Suicide's Not the Answer," which he performed and recorded with fellow students. Gordon's work on this song was supported by Music Alive Program teaching artists Greg Brown, Andrew Morrison, Rita Claire…
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In children’s hands: Music Alive Program meets the music of R. Murray...
April 4, 2014Every year Calgary trumpeter Samantha Whelan Kotkas performs for about 1,100 schoolchildren who live mainly in rural Alberta. As a teaching musician for the National Arts Centre’s Music Alive Program, she’s done sessions on making music, and about classical composers like Vivaldi, Mozart…
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Music, youth and the North
March 20, 2014The National Arts Centre strives to be a catalyst for performance, creation and learning in every part of the country. One of the ways we do that is through our Music Alive Program in Nunavut, which has now reached over 5,000 northern Canadians in Kugluktuk, Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet,…
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Music Alive Program connects in Ottawa
February 28, 2014Trumpet player Rachel Niego-Akavak first met NAC Orchestra musician Karen Donnelly in 2012 through the Music Alive Program in Nunavut. Rachel is a talented young musician but she did not have a trumpet teacher to take her music training to the next level. Over the past two years Karen has…
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Music Alive Program: Nunavut - Keyboards for Cape Dorset
January 22, 2014Do you have a portable keyboard at home that is not being used? Not sure what to do with it? The NAC’s Music Alive Program in Nunavut is interested in acquiring used portable keyboards to donate to Peter Pitseolak High School in Cape Dorset. This school recently acquired a beautiful…
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Hip-Hop in Kugluktuk
January 17, 2014The Music Alive Program: Nunavut, a National Arts Centre program dedicated to supporting the incredible musical culture of Nunavut, is bringing Nelson Tagoona, a Baker Lake, Nunavut throat boxer, and hip-hop artist Aaron “Godson” Hernandez of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, to work with…
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NAC Orchestra Brass Trio in Pangnirtung
October 24, 2012The NACO Brass Trio Tour to Pangnirtung and Rankin Inlet, an initiative of the NAC Music Alive Program (MAP) and the Northern Tour, has only just begun and I think it was already more eventful than we could have ever dreamed of. Our evening flight from Iqaluit to Pangnirtung was…
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Sharing Music in the North
July 18, 2012Launched in 2005, The NAC Music Alive Program (MAP) supports teaching musician visits and provides curriculum-based resources for schools in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 2009, the program evolved to include schools in Nunavut. With support from the Government of Nunavut, RBC Foundation and…
