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The Farquhar at UVic - Voices in Circle Presents:Tanya Tagaq Sept 18 7pm
with The Victoria Symphony & Emily Carr String Quartet
From Ikaluktutiak (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut), internationally celebrated artist Tanya Tagaq is an improvisational singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling author. A member of the Order of Canada, Polaris Music Prize and JUNO Award winner and recipient of multiple honorary doctorates, Tagaq is an original disruptor, a world-changing figure at the forefront of seismic social, political and environmental change.
A fearless innovator with a visceral stage presence and dizzyingly complex music, Tanya Tagaq is a Canadian cultural icon. With an extraordinary musical aesthetic, Tanya mines an artistic tradition dating back tens of thousands of years with a fierce power and contemporary sensibility. Tagaq’s performance will include qiasaaqtuq, featuring the Victoria Symphony, a moderated discussion and sivunitinni, accompanied by a quartet of local musicians.
“Calling Tanya Tagaq an Inuit throat singer is like calling Yo-Yo Ma a cello player. Sure, it’s accurate, but it’s not the whole of what he does. Like Ma, Tagaq is the best of what she does—innovative, inspired.” - The National Post
“… Tagaq rose to the occasion with a performance that was simply elemental. Her approach is essentially abstract…Yet her singing delivered very concrete images of winter storms and summer sunshine, of birth and death and sexual ecstasy, of struggle and survival.” - The Georgia Straight
Pricing
Tier One - $68.00
Tier Two - $65.00
Tier Three - $48.00
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, Canada, British Columbia V8W 3P2
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