Jeremy Dutcher in Concert

Description

Jeremy Dutcher, is a classically-trained Canadian Indigenous tenor, composer, musicologist, performer and activist, who currently lives in Montréal, Québec. He became widely known for his ground breaking first album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, which won the 2018 Polaris Music Prize and the JUNO Award for “Indigenous Music Album of the Year” at the 2019 JUNO Awards.

Jeremy merges traditional songs with neoclassical, jazz, and pop influences. Join Jeremy and your VDPAC for this transcending performance, featuring music from Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa and his newest album, Motewolonuwok. Jeremy merges traditional songs with A Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) member of the Tobique First Nation in North-West New Brunswick, Dutcher studied music and anthropology at Dalhousie University. After training as an operatic tenor in the Western classical tradition, he expanded his professional repertoire to include the traditional singing style and songs of his community.

He recorded Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa following a research project on archival recordings of traditional Maliseet songs at the Canadian Museum of History, many of which are no longer being passed down to contemporary Maliseet youth.

The profound and indelible artist, Jeremy Dutcher identifies as Two-Spirit, a modern, Pan-Indian, umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe aboriginal people fulfilling a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) ceremonial cultural role in their community.
neo-classical, jazz, and pop influences.

$49 Adult
$45 Members/Seniors
$35 Students