First Nations Voice

OCTOBER 2015 • PAGE 13 JustinTrudeauiscommittedtorenewingtheNation-to-Nation relationshipwithFirstNationsbasedonrights,recognition,respectfor theTreaties,andtheUNDeclarationontheRightsofIndigenousPeoples. It'stherightthingtodo TheLiberalplanwill… • Immediatelylaunchanationalpublicinquiryintomissingandmurdered IndigenouswomenandgirlsinCanada. • Implementall94callstoactionintheTruthandReconciliationCommission. • Invest$3.1billioninnewfundingforFirstNationseducation. • LiftthetwopercentfundingcaponFirstNationscommunities,andworkin partnershiptodevelopFirstNations-ledsolutionstothechallengesfacing FirstNationscommunities. AuthorizedbytheregisteredagentfortheLiberalPartyofCanada. Promoting AboriginAl tAlent By First Nations Staff Rescued By Dragonflyz There's a Top 40 Aboriginal music countdown that features some of the best talent from Canada's fastest growing and youngest population. The radio show was initiated by Native Communications Incorporated (NCI-FM) general manager and CEO David McLeod, who is a self professed "Aboriginal music fanatic." McLeod said, "The last 10 years the chart has developed alongside the music that is being released so you'll see a variety of genres including hard rock to hip hop to country to blues to folk. Any genre that Aboriginal people are making music and making it their own." NCI began airing a top ten playlist in the spring of 1998. "NCI's Aboriginal Top Ten" was first formulated as a radio playlist where announcers played songs hourly from a predetermined song-list. In the fall of 1999 this playlist evolved into a one-hour long show that featured Aboriginal music throughout North America. On that playlist, you can find many local artists including C-Weed, Moody X2, Ali Fontaine, Don Amero, William Prince, Lucien Spence, Kimberley Dawn and Rescued By Dragonflyz. Donovan Bruyere, lead singer of Rescued By Dragonflyz, said, "As a musician and First Nation's musician, it is a proud moment to be a stamp on the "aboriginal top 40 countdown." I also think that its important to our spirit as well to actually see that something you wrote musically that is acknowledged and appreciated! Truly from the people calling in or requesting yours/ours/ music! We "rescued by dragonflyz" think its a great forum for aboriginal music weather its rock,country, traditional fiddle, rap... goes on and on." In the fall of 2008, the Aboriginal Music Countdown went national with the advent of a new Aboriginal broadcast association called the "Western Association of Aboriginal Broadcasters (WAAB)." The association united five provincial Aboriginal broadcasters to work together on common goals and interests. All five broadcast societies signed on to broadcast the National Aboriginal Top Thirty program. Then in March of 2010 the name of the program was changed to "The National Aboriginal Music Countdown" that features forty songs from across North America and also includes some Indigenous music from New Zealand and Australia. A website was also launched to further promote the National Aboriginal Music Countdown giving access worldwide to anyone who has an interest in Aboriginal music. The recording is a week old in order to entice listeners to hear the latest program on their local or on-line Aboriginal radio station. The Aboriginal Music Countdown is hosted and written by the very talented Taylor Galvin.

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