Fort Smith

In partnership with A CREE TAKEOVER | BY RENELTTA ARLUKINSPIRED BY THE YOUTH OF FROG LAKE FIRST NATION CO-PRODUCTION WITH AKPIK THEATRE The groundbreaking Pawâkan Macbeth is Indigenous playwright, Reneltta Arluk’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s darkest play into Cree history, legend and cosmology. Set in Plains Cree territory in the 1870s, before the establishment of First...

A CELTIC TREAT Skye Consort & Emma Björling perform trans-Atlantic arrangements of songs and tunes from Sweden,Norway, Ireland, Scotland, England, Québec, Acadia,the USA, as well as original compositions. Each musician brings their own individual interpretation to these traditions to create this extraordinary collaboration, consisting of voices, fiddle, nyckelharpa, cello, bouzouki, banjo, and percussion. Collectively, the...

Celebration of Metis Roots For fifty years, Norman Glowach has been playing music in Yellowknife. He started playing the drums, but he also sings and plays guitar. Growing up in Yellowknife, Norm has been fortunate to play many styles of music. At an early age, he played in school bands and stage bands. Professionally, he's...

A brand-new concert made just for NACC with a rising opera star from New York & An ensemble of WORLD CLASS musicians! Kofi Hayford is a young, prize-winning Ghanaian-American bass, described as possessing an “impressive, “sonorous", and “stentorian bass voice”, also produces a distinct sound – easily identified for its unique timbre. With almost 40...

NACC’s 40th Anniversary will be a celebration of exceptional talent and dynamic northern art forms from across the broad expanse of Denendeh. From the great fiddling dynasties flowing deep and swiftly like the great Deh Cho river, to the shining lights of Indigenous voices, the show will celebrate some of the major milestones and remember...