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San Francisco Indigenous Peoples Day with special performance by Jeremy Dutcher
Mon, Oct 12, 12:00pm – 4:00pm
Join us in celebration of San Francisco Indigenous Peoples Day with a magnificent profusion of Native American art, music and vendors. The event highlights the vastly diverse and talented community of Indigenous artists in the Bay Area, California and the Americas. Presented on Yelamu, Ramaytush Ohlone Territory, in partnership with the International Indian Treaty Council, the program at Yerba Buena Gardens follows the Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz – please check the IITC website for updates. Schedule to be announced.
A groundbreaking Indigenous musician whose art flows directly out of his cultural activism, tenor Jeremy Dutcher is a conservatory-trained Canadian composer, musicologist and performer who has turned European classical music into a vehicle for language preservation. A member of Neqotkuk First Nation in Eastern Canada now based in Montréal, Québec, Dutcher catapulted to renown with his debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, which won the 2018 Polaris Music Prize and the Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys in 2019. The project unearthed century-old archival recordings of his ancestors, which he turned into collaborative compositions on piano. Sung entirely in Wolastoqey, his endangered mother tongue, the album led to collaborations with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and Feist. His follow-up release, 2023’s Motewolonuwok, was also awarded the Polaris Music Prize, making Dutcher the first ever two-time winner. Unapologetically playful in its incorporation of classical and jazz influences, full of reverence for the traditional songs of his home, and thrumming with the urgency of modern-day resistance, Dutcher’s music has given him a platform to discuss his perspectives on queerness, Indigeneity, language revitalization and fashion.
Lyla June is musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Influenced by her work in Human Ecology, Indigenous Pedagogy and her traditional upbringing, Lyla’s multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal and collective healing.
The Neighborhood Kids are a collective from Southern California, blending powerful lyricism, high-energy hip-hop and punk influences into an explosive live show. Rooted in culture, community and resistance, The Neighborhood Kids bring an unapologetic energy to the stage with music that speaks to identity, social justice and the power of the people.
SH1NE L1GHT is a life-long writer whose music is raw and deeply intentional. He blends radical honesty and spirituality to foster connection, community and healing. Catch him and his 7-piece band bringing a hip-hop jazz infused set on to the YBG Festival stage.
Plus more to be announced.
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This project is supported in part by Creative West which receives support in part from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
