Black Belt Eagle Scout is the music project of Katherine Paul, who grew up on the Swinomish Indian Reservation in Washington state. She signed with Saddle Creek, and her latest album was praised by NPR Music, Stereogum, and dubbed the Best Rock Album of 2018 by Pitchfork. Identifying as a Radical Indigenous Queer Feminist, all of her music videos have been directed by trans, queer, or genderfluid Indigenous artists and have highlighted Indigenous girls and native people who identify as Two-Spirit.

Digging Roots breathe life into songs from their land, Turtle Island, to raise their voices in solidarity with a global chorus of Indigenous artists, activists and change-makers. For over a decade, two-time JUNO Award winners Digging Roots have traveled the world with a joyful message of resistance, celebrating Anishinabe and Onkwehonwe traditions of round dance and interconnectedness interwoven with the bedrock sounds of blues, soul and rock n’ roll.

Handsome Tiger is an Anishinaabe Métis, North African music producer/dj from Turtle Island currently residing in Vancouver BC. His production blends traditional sounds from his culture alongside other indigenous sounds, interwoven into the contemporary sounds of electronic bass music today.

Raised in a doomsday cult. Forged in the wild. She lost everything and everyone for renouncing her faith. That is when she discovered herself, began to heal through music, and started the work of reclaiming her Indigenous heritage.

Afro/Indigenous/Colombian/Canadian/punk/folklorist/traditionalist/transgressive/diva/angel. There are so many layers to Canadian-Colombian singer Lido Pimienta’s identity that you might get lost in them. But if you did, you’d be missing the point.

Her multi-textural, mind-bending voice and music project what Canada’s The Globe and Mail called her “bold, brash, polarizing” persona, which constantly confronts the powers that be. But it also reveals an embrace of the Afro- and Indigenous traditions that is at once defiant, delicate and sweetly nostalgic.

Otyken is a Siberian indigenous music group. The marvelous combination of traditional musical instruments and modern arrangement will definitely entertain you! The mystical throat singing, special elemental vocals, enchanting sounds of vargan, khomys, morinkhur, leather drums will take you to the wild thickets of the Siberian taiga.

Since her groundbreaking debut, 1964’s It’s My Way!, Buffy Sainte-Marie has been a trailblazer and a tireless advocate, an innovative artist, and a disruptor of the status quo.

Sainte-Marie has spent her whole life creating, and her artistry, humanitarian efforts, and Indigenous leadership have made her a unique force in the music industry. In 1969, she made one of the world’s first electronic vocal albums; in 1982 she became the only Indigenous person to win an Oscar; she spent five years on Sesame Street where she became the first woman to breastfeed on national television. She’s been blacklisted and silenced.

She’s written pop standards sung and recorded by the likes of Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Donovan, Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes. She penned “Universal Soldier,” the definitive anti-war anthem of the 20th century. She is an icon who keeps one foot firmly planted on both sides of the North American border, in the unsurrendered territories that comprise Canada and the USA.

Elisapie's unconditional attachment to her territory and her language, Inuktitut, remains at the core of her creative journey. Born and raised in Salluit, a small village in Nunavik which is only accessible by plane, Elisapie is an emblematic Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter. Since winning her first Juno Award in 2005 with her band Taima, Elisapie’s body of work has been praised many times.

Hataałiinez Wheeler is a very modern kind of crooner: a pensive, deep-voiced troubadour whose serene surf-country songs tap into the hope and despondency of a new generation. The music he makes as Hataałii — a Navajo term that means ‘to sing’, a fitting diminutive of his given name — is at turns witty and world-weary, sunny but endearingly solipsistic, tapping into the nihilism of The Replacements’ Paul Westerberg as well as the gorgeously romantic sleaze of Chris Isaak, if either of them had to deal with the anxieties of constantly carrying a mobile phone or losing contact with friends during COVID lockdowns.

Future-facing but decidedly old-fashioned, Hataalii is a refreshingly unplaceable new voice, channeling his distinctive worldview into songs that feel timeless and perfectly modern all at once.

Winner for Indigenous artist of the year at the ADISQ gala and the TD Indigenous Songwriter Award from the SOCAN Foundation, Laura Niquay is an Atikamekw artist from Wemotaci in Mauricie. She distinguishes herself by her incomparable voice and by singing in her native language: Atikamekw.

Morgan Toney is a 21-year-old Mi'kmaq fiddler from the We'koqma'q and Wagmatcook First Nations in Nova Scotia. Toney was a drummer first, and when he picked up the fiddle, it was a difficult transition. But he kept practicing, and soon the fiddle was almost like a homecoming.

Almost literally, in fact, because it was only when his family saw the instrument in his hands did the stories start spilling out that Toney actually came from a long line of fiddle players, including his great uncles and great grandfather.

Born on the Navajo-Indian reservation in southern Utah, Pete Sands began performing solo acoustic sets on open mic nights. His first EP “Dirt Dance Floor,” was the beginning of the formation of BLACKKISS, a three piece band formed by Pete Sands, Ren Javadov and Steven Tabarez.