Jeremy Dutcher, a member of Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, is a classically-trained composer, musicologist, and activist whose boundary-crossing music is filled with reverence for the traditional songs of his home and the urgency of modern-day struggles. His award-winning albums include Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa and Honor Song.
Jeremy first studied music in Halifax before taking a chance to work in the archives at the Canadian Museum of History, painstakingly transcribing Wolastoq songs from 1907 wax cylinders. “Many of the songs I’d never even heard before, because our musical tradition on the East Coast was suppressed by the Canadian Government’s Indian Act.”