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PIQSIQ with Oh Pray Tell – Double Bill
The Trail & District Arts Council presents Inuit style throat singers PIQSIQ at The Bailey Theatre on Saturday, March 7 at 7:30 pm as part of the Performing Arts Trail series. They will be joined in the double bill by Oh Pray Tell who are gospel, rhythm & blues, roots music and folk storytelling singers.
With a style perpetually galvanized by darkness and haunting northern beauty, sisters Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay come together to create an Inuit style throat singing duo, PIQSIQ. They perform ancient traditional songs and eerie new compositions with improvisational looping. In Inuktitut, a “piqsiq” is a storm where the snow seems as if it is falling back up towards the sky.
PIQSIQ have toured internationally and performed at the NONAM (North American Native Museum in Zurich), The German American Centre in Stuttgart, Germany, the Linden Museum and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC as part of the Library of Congress concert series. They also performed for the High Commission to Canada in London for a tribute concert alongside Susan Aglukark.
They have recorded a television special for APTN’s “Indigenous Day Live Winter Solstice”
and for the Chan Centre for the Arts Dot Com Series. And PIQSIQ’s music has been licensed for several films including “Food for the Rest of Us”, directed by Caroline Cox and produced by Tiffany Ayalik, and “The Magnitude of All Things”, directed by Jennifer Abbot.
They even partnered with Coloma Guitars in Vancouver to create a one-of-a-kind instrument made of an entire caribou antler mount with a baleen whale bow.
Their 2020 album “Taaqtuq Ubluriaq: Dark Star” charted for several months nationally in the top 30 for Electronic and National categories and one of the songs off the album, “Arctic Hallows”, was listed by CBC as one of the top 100 songs of 2020.
Listen to the haunting throat singing composition “Echoes & Electricity” by Kayley Inuksuk Mackay sung during a lightning storm on the shores of the big lake where water meets sky. https://youtu.be/IKR5DwbaDj0
Oh Pray Tell is Betty Supple, Sally Titasey and Shayna Jones whose three part harmonies grounded in banjo and stomp-clap-cajon rhythms carry poetry, stories and spoken word. They offer up an original, soulful sound influenced by gospel, rhythm & blues, roots music and folk story-telling. Shayna is a recent and rejoiced addition to the group.
Oh Pray tell is based in British Columbia, Turtle Island — Sally and Shayna on Sinixt Territory and Betty moving consistently between territories, most often landing in that of the Sinixt, Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabe, Huron Wendat, Quw’utsun and Snuneymuxw Peoples.
Single tickets are $30. Under 30 years is $15.
7-show pass $188 or Pick Your Own season by becoming a Patron Member for $25 and get 20% off Trail Arts Council presentations and other benefits. All tickets available online at trail-arts.com, by phone at 250-368-9669, and in person at the Bailey Box Office at 1501 Cedar Ave., Trail.
Reminder – please do not wear strong smelling perfumes or colognes to the Bailey Theatre as the building is a scent free zone. Thank you for your cooperation.
This performance is made possible thanks to the support of our funders the BC Arts Council, BC Live Performance Network, and the Government of Canada. We also gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia.
