Big Top / TICKETED
7PM - 10pm

Troy Macgillivray

Troy MacGillivray … raised in Lanark, Nova Scotia, his musical prowess can be attributed to an especially rare combination of commitment and bloodline. By the age of six, Troy was already impressing audiences with his step dancing skills. By 13 he was teaching piano at the renowned Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts in St. Anne’s, Cape Breton. He has completed grade seven of the Toronto Conservatory of Music for classical piano, has spent four years in a stringed orchestra and has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in music from St. Francis Xavier University. www.troymacgillivray.com

Nuala Kennedy

Irish traditional singer and flautist Nuala Kennedy performs a range of material from across the Irish and Scottish traditional music repertoires. She also composes her own idiosyncratic brand of traditional music and tours in a variety of line-ups from duo and quartet to a nine-piece festival band ‘The New Shoes’ with whom she recorded her debut album released on Nashville’s Compass Records (2007). It received four-star reviews from the national Scotland on Sunday newspaper, Songlines Magazine and was voted traditional album of the week by The Irish Times. www.nualakennedy.com

Big Top / TICKETED
June 27 Circus > 2PM - 4pm & 7PM - 9PM
June 30 Finale Concert > 7PM - 10pm

Led by Artistic Director, Yamoussa Bangoura, Productions Kalabante is a multi-talented collaboration of Guinean and Francophone musicians and acrobats formed in 2007.  Their music is a haunting mix of soul, jazz and traditional Guinean kora, balafon and doun doun.  Yamoussa began his circus career with Circus Baobab in Guinea Conakry, then performed with Cirque Eloize from 2002 to 2006 in Canada, Europe, in China, Israel, and New Zealand.  Yamoussa has performed in Igloolik, Cambridge Bay and at last year’s Alianait Arts Festival with the world premiere of Fibonacci.  www.kalabante.org

Big Top / TICKETED
7PM - 10pm

Kobo Town is a Toronto-based group whose music draws its inspiration from traditional calypso, roots reggae and dub poetry. Named after the vibrant and turbulent neighbourhood in old Port-of-Spain where Calypso was born, the group strives to recover the social conscience, satirical storytelling and strong acoustic/organic rhythms that characterized Trinidadian music in the past. www.kobotown.com

Big Top / TICKETED
6:30PM

Radha Jetty is passionate about dancing.  She has been performing the Indian classical dance form called Bharatha Natyam since the age of five.  She has performed extensively in Canada, the US and India.  In 2006, she spent a three-month sabbatical in India, where she undertook full-time studies in Bharatha Natyam technique, theory, history and rhythm training with well known gurus.  She was one of the founders and choreographers of the Montreal-based dance collective, Ekatva, that showcased Samsaara: rebirth of a woman in July 2006.  In 2007, she presented a one-woman show titledSwaralaya in Ottawa where she used her dancing as a voice for social change in her feature piece titled “A Mother’s Plea”.   Last year, Radha presented her work for the first time in Iqaluit at her show “Rhythmes de l’Inde”.  Radha will present some of her latest choreography along with an experimental piece with Iqaluit drummers Andrew Gilbutowicz and Mike Mifflin.

Radha’s passion translates into her career as a pediatrician.  She now calls Iqaluit home as she works as the region’s full time pediatrician based at the Qikiqtani general hospital.  

Watch her perform the intricate footwork, hand gestures and facial expressions that are characteristic of this 2000-year old art form. 

Big Top / TICKETED
7PM - 10pm

That phrase is the first of many lines people will remember from her second CD, Low Fidelity, and it’ll be among the words you’ll remember when you hear her in concert. www.treasalevasseur.com

featuring Bill Bourne, Wyckham Porteous & Jas Ohlhauser

Big Top / TICKETED
7PM - 10pm

Three forces of nature meet in Bop Ensemble, a Canadian super-group featuring folk legends Bill Bourne and Wyckham Porteous, along with up-and-coming singer-bassist Jasmine “Jas” Ohlhauser. Combining Bourne’s grit, Porteous’ warmth, and Jas’ energetic devilry, the three manage to catch lightning in a bottle. www.billbourne.com

 www.myspace.com/bopensemble

Big Top / FREE
1PM - 3:30pm

Nuvu is an eclectic ensemble made up of Iqaluit musicians peforming original music. The principal singer and songwriter is Ellen Hamilton who founded the popular folk band Night Sun in Iqaluit almost 20 years ago. Nuvu features Ellen (vocals, guitar) along with Chris Coleman (clarinet, mandolin, guitar), Rob Aube (bass), Jamal Shirley (guitar) and Leena Evic (vocals).

Big Top / FREE
1PM - 3:30pm

Led by Music Teacher, Mary Piercey, this all girl ensemble was formed in the Fall of 2008 and performs traditional Inuktitut and contemporary songs, Inuit drum dances and throat songs. Mary is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University and spent 5 years teaching music at Qitiqliq High School in Arviat prior to moving to Iqaluit.  The Inuksuk Drum Dancers has been dazzling Iqaluit audiences all year, most recently at the Toonik Tyme Opening Ceremonies and the Nunavut Trade Show.

Big Top / FREE
1PM - 3:30pm

Johnny has been a regular at the Alianait Arts Festival, dazzling audiences with his incredible physical strength, agility and endurance. Johnny is a famous Inuit athlete from Chesterfield Inlet who has represented Nunavut at 5 Arctic Winter Games.