VIFF Live x Chan EXP: Jeremy Dutcher & Alanis Obomsawin

* Please note, there will be a pre-concert talk in the RBC Cinema at 7:15PM with Richard Hill, Smith Jarislowsky Senior Curator of Canadian Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Two of the most compelling voices in Indigenous music and cinema meet for an intimate, unique, and unforgettable evening of intergenerational story and song featuring award-winning Wolastoq tenor and composer Jeremy Dutcher and renowned Abenaki filmmaker and musician Alanis Obomsawin.

Song carrier Jeremy Dutcher performs with his trio, blending songs from his community of Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick with neoclassical, jazz, and pop influences. Obomsawin, hailed as “one of the most acclaimed Indigenous directors in the world”, offers a rare live performance of Bush Lady, her acclaimed and only full-length album, originally released in 1988. Accompanied by an ensemble led by Montreal’s Radwan Moumneh, this will be only Obomsawin’s third performance of this music since Constellation Records remastered and re-released the album in 2018.

Ensemble members for Alanis Obomsawin’s performance:

• Radwan Moumneh (percussion)
• Meredith Bates (violin)
• Parmela Attariwala (violin/viola)
• Heather Beaty (flute)
• Sam Davidson (clarinet) 

This event is co-presented with the Vancouver International Film Festival, in partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery.