Nakai's 2021 Pivot Festival
Music on the Lawn
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Recorded live from the Sun Room for your listening pleasure – streamed, podcasted, and broadcast on the radio.
Friday January 29 @ 7pm MT
A collaboration with Society of Something Shows and CJUC featuring four not-often-heard Yukon musicians: WHITNEY K., VICTORIA PARKER, JOHN FROM DAWSON, and PRINCESS MELIA.
The creative vehicle known as Whitney K. has existed since roughly 2014. Initially forming as a notion while song writer and perpetual wanderer Konner Whitney was stranded in Toronto. It has since been something of a perennial anomaly, occurring when needed to facilitate a new set of neurotic fits. The style of music has rarely been consistent ranging from electronic, folk, rock, pop etc. However, for the last few years it has been deeply invested in the lineage of the working class, politically conscious, folk model. Songs that can be played anywhere, by anyone, with little accompaniment, save the holy spirit and a voice. Whitney K. takes its cues from the underground champions, David Berman(silver jews,purple mountains), Meat Puppets, Simone Schmidt (100dollars,fiver,highest order) and the like, writing stories for those who are ready to take the time and listen.
VICTORIA PARKER -
Victoria Parker is a singer-songwriter who lives in Whitehorse Yukon Territory. Parker's musical style has been described as indie folk, indie pop and electronic ambient. Victoria received her Masters in Music Education from Western University and a Bachelor of Music Performance from Acadia University. Parker has performed with many musicians across Canada and most notably with the band Wet Denim (Halifax, NS), with whom she released the debut album WWWDD. Victoria is writing music for a forthcoming album and working on a new experimental project named Prism.
Growing up with no electricity or plumbing across the river from Dawson City, Yukon. John was raised to follow his creativity because he had little to no contact with large social groups other than at school. Which in his town was kindergarten to grade 12 and occupied no more than 250 kids a year. In grade twelve John moved to the capital of the Yukon, Whitehorse. It didn’t take long for the small-town kid to acquire the nickname “John from Dawson'' due to his stunts and personality at parties. After Moving back to Dawson, nineteen-year-old John from Dawson experienced multiple life-changing events that led him to release his emotions through writing and talking to his notebook. Before long he started turning those emotional words into full-length songs and creating his own beats to back them up.What started as an emotional reaction, became John’s entire life, and since 2019 he has released three full-length albums, multiple singles, and several professional quality music videos. John closed out the 2019 Keno Music Festival at 3 in the morning, performed as an emerging artist at the 2019 Dawson City Music Festival, and has filled several Yukon bars with his upbeat, positive hip hop.
Princess Melia aka Melia Lillian is an upcoming recording artist/producer born and raised in Whitehorse Yukon. Her music styles combining pop, alternative, electronic, post-punk, and ambient to create sounds and poetic lyrics that sink into the deepest parts of your mind. She has a background in fashion and photojournalism. Now in Toronto attending the Harris Institute, she is studying to become a Music Business Professional with degrees in Management and Audio Engineering.