ELISAPIE ISAAC
SUNDAY, JUNE 27 • 7 PM
OLD MARKET SQUARE
FREE
SUNDAY, JUNE 27 • 9:30 PM
AQUA BOOKS
Club Pass and Wristband venue
Individual show ticket: $12 adv./$15 door
Singer, composer, filmmaker Elisapie Isaac was born of an Inuk mother and a Newfoundland father. She was adopted at birth by an Inuit family and was raised in the isolated community of Salluit, Nunavik—the Great North. For Elisapie, the north is not at the top of the world, it’s at the centre of her world. “My grandfather used to say that to avoid getting lost,” Isaac says, “you always have to look where you’ve come from.” Her first solo recording, There Will Be Stars, is a record that looks to where this artist has come from… here and now.
There Will Be Stars is not so much an album as a seduction from somewhere distant, somewhere otherworldly. Sometimes full of joy, sometimes lined with melancholy, at times pop, at times folk, at times sung poems from the North—is it Polar pop? Arctic Electric? New cool?
It has been said that great singers are first and foremost great communicators. Elisapie Isaac’s life’s work has been communicating, first on radio, then on TV, and then on film with her award-winning National Film Board documentary If the Weather Permits. She continues that tradition with her music. A few listens in and you will start to realize that Isaac has a deep respect for both the profound and the party.
