Innu music

Indigenous music of North America
North American Indian music Aboriginal music of Canada
Music of indigenous tribes and peoples
Arapaho Blackfoot Dene Innu Inuit Iroquois Kiowa Kwakwaka'wakw Métis Navajo Pueblo Seminole Sioux Yaqui Yuman
Types of music
Chicken scratch Ghost Dance Hip hop Opera Peyote song Pow wow Throat singing
Instruments
Anasazi flute Apache fiddle Native American flute Water drum
Awards ceremonies and awards
APCMAs NAMAs Grammy Award Juno Award

The Innu are among the First Nations of Canada. They have maintained a vibrant folk music culture, especially involving dance and percussion-based music. Philip Mackenzie is an especially important modern musician, known for being the creator a kind of singer-songwriter tradition using the Innu language. Though he originally used only guitar and teueikan (a Montagnais frame drum with snares), subsequent performers in his folk Innu style have added electronic and acoustic instruments.^[1]

The Innu Nikamu (The Innu Sings), held annually in Quebec, is an important festival of Native American music of all kinds. The most famous Innu folk-rock band, Kashtin, began their popular career at Innu Nikamu.^[1]

References

1 2 Innu Nikamu, The Canadian Encyclopedia.

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