Liima Inui

June 30

Big Top / TICKETED
7PM - 10pm

Liima Inui is a world music band from Nuuk, Greenland that plays rock, reggae, and experimental pop and shows their own experimental film during performances. The band was formed in 1994 when they released their first CD “Shaman”, which was chosen to be part of the indigenous millennium year. 

The next album, released last year 2007, is called “ Pluto”, and features singer Randi Broberg, and their third album is currently being recorded and should be ready in time for Alianait.

www.myspace.com/liimainui

Kaina Nowdlak

June 30

Big Top / TICKETED
7PM - 10pm

Iqaluit’s own Kaina Nowdlak is a fast playing accordionist with an infectious smile who had 2009 Toonik Tyme audience dancing up a storm.

Kobo Town

June 30

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

Productions Kalabante

June 27 & 30

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

Troy MacGillivray and Nuala Kennedy

June 30

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