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| Tumivut: The Competition Song 14 x 11 inches, oil on canvas, 2019 |
Depicted above is one of the two performers of Tumivut: The Competition Song at the 2010 Aboriginal Day in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It's from a video found on YouTube shot from the audience and is a persistent feature in the Top 100. The video has over 1,000,000 views, thousands of likes and hundreds of comments. I browsed through all those comments just to find out the identity of the two performers. I have not been able to identify them yet. It is the third time I painted from a screenshot of the video. This time it's ten seconds into the 1:25 video and they haven't started yet. The woman on the left fram an audience perspective, is introducing The Competition Song while the one on the right smiles. The Canadian Inuits don't consider their 'katajjait' tradition music as it is merely a game. Ethnomusicolists and myself, we disagree.
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