Summary: <p>Montreal-based Inuk folk-pop singer and songwriter, <a href="https://www.elisapie.com/" target="_blank">Elisapie</a>, is from the Far North, and her music draws from and takes pride in her Inuit and First Nations origins – while also journeying through some heavy emotional territory.</p> <p>The JUNO-nominated Elisapie (Élisapie Isaac) is originally from Salluit, Nunavik, but has lived in Montreal for 20 years. On her most recent record, <em>The</em> <em>Ballad of the Runaway Girl</em>, Elisapie reaffirms her connections to her sonic roots in Inuit and Native folk music. She sings in her native Inuktitut, as well as in English and French; there’s a song in touch with Inuit animism, and an ode to missing and murdered aboriginal girls and women, along with a song in defense of the territory - "Call of the Moose." All that pls, a heartfelt reconciliation song asking her biological mother what it felt like to give her up for adoption. </p> <p>Elisapie plays songs from her recent record, <em>The Ballad of the Runaway Girl</em> in-studio. <em>- Caryn Havlik</em> </p> <p>Watch the session here:</p> <p> </p> <p>Listen to music from the album: </p> <p><a href="http://elisapie.bandcamp.com/album/the-ballad-of-the-runaway-girl">The Ballad of the Runaway Girl by Elisapie</a></p> <p> </p>
