VIFF Live x Chan EXP: Jeremy Dutcher & Alanis Obomsawin

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.

Co-presented with the Vancouver International Film Festival, in partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery.