JEREMY DUTCHER SHARES A STUNNING AND INTIMATE LIVE VIDEO FOR THE GRAMMYS “GLOBAL SPIN” PERFORMANCE SERIES

Screenshot of the “Pomawsuwinuwok Wonakiyawolotuwok” live video

Today, Jeremy Dutcher - the classically trained Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) in Eastern Canada –  is excited to share a new live video for “Pomawsuwinuwok Wonakiyawolotuwok” – off the latest opus Motewolonuwok – as part of the GRAMMYs Global Spin performance series featuring artists from around the world such as K Pop artist B.I. and afrobeat Diamond Platnumz, focusing on the celebration of the global music communities. The video is hosted on the GRAMMYS / Recording Academy YouTube Channel, gathering more than two million subscribers. The Canadian tour is soon coming to an end with a final concert in Toronto at Massey Hall on December 9th, where many dates were sold out, Dutcher is starting 2024 strong and just announced five dates to come in January: Nantes, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Oslo. 

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Jeremy Dutcher’s latest opus Motewolonuwok has been prised by critics and mentions all around the world, as he was featured in Vogue Magazine, on the NPR show 1A and WNYC “All of it” and “New Sounds” in the United States and in Canada on the Exclaim! cover for October, on TV show The Social on CTV. Dutcher also did a session and interview on RFI (France), has been crowned in the UK as the MOJO Rising Artist in the September issue and the magazine gave the record ★★★★, stating “there is real weight behind these songs, and Motewolonuwok carries it with sombre grace.” Rolling Stone France also shares the ★★★★ status calling the album “a total and captivating success” as well as The Morning Star (UK) calling it “A captivating set, with Dutcher’s extraordinary and expressive vocals underpinned by orchestral arrangements... Mesmerising, magical and often deeply moving”. Télérama adds “richly orchestrated, his intimate ballads unfold an intense dramaturgy to transcend the pain of oppression and express the soothing beauty of resilience.” 

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Dutcher originally vaulted himself into the upper echelons of Canadian performance with his 2018 debut, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa. Since winning the Polaris Music Prize and JUNO Award, performing for NPR Tiny Desk, and collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma and Beverly Glenn Copeland, Dutcher returns with Motewolonuwok, a moving and radiant exploration of contemporary Indigeneity and his place within it, presenting his most expansive work yet. The new album also marks Dutcher’s first time writing and singing in English. A powerful invitation for collective healing and understanding, “Shared tongue is a beautiful gift, with a complicated reason,” Dutcher explains. These new English songs are also a way of singing directly to the newcomer, or settler, in their own language — a direct line of communication that seeks to platform his community’s stories of healing, resilience, and emergence to all that may hear.

Motewolonuwok heaves with dynamic orchestration and the inherent drama of grand piano, recalling a long line of artists who have turned the classical establishment on its head to deliver compositions that are doubly ecstatic and modern — luminaries such as Julius Eastman, Perfume Genius, Arthur Russell, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and Merce Cunningham. More intimate and expansive than anything Dutcher has created before, Motewolonuwok hedges the line between storytelling and composition as both a transcendental protest record and an exploration of self. This is experimental pop as corrective medicine: a defiant, healing, and queer experience that fills any listener with power and wisdom.

TOUR DATES
December 7 – St. Catharines, Canada - FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
December 9 – Toronto, Canada – Massey Hall
January 17, 2024 – Nantes, France - La Cité des Congrès de Nantes NEW DATE
January 19, 2024 – Paris, France - Centre Culturel Canadien TICKETS ON SALE SOON NEW
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January 21, 2024 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Venue to be confirmed TICKETS ON SALE SOON
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January 26, 2024 – Berlin, Germany - Michelberger Hotel NEW DATE
January 28, 2024 – Oslo, Norway NATIVE LANGUAGE TBD - Parkteatret Scene NEW DATE 
March 16, 2024 – Princeton, New Jersey - McCarter Theatre Center NEW DATE

PRAISES FOR MOTEWOLONUWOK

“[Jeremy Dutcher] Brings forward the spirit of his people on this beautiful record.” — Ann Powers, NPR Music (US)

"There is a revolution in this album...Motewolonuwok is about people rising up in the streets, about unity and community, about identity. Dutcher […] shares an operatic timbre with Anohni, his songs transmitting a similar sense of spiritual commitment. There is a real weight behind these songs, and Motewolonuwok carries it with sombre grace." ★★★★ – MOJO (UK)

“a total and captivating success” ★★★★ – Rolling Stone France 

“Jeremy Dutcher creates music that has never been created before in Canada... The album is built like a suite in 11 movements, building a crescendo that includes hymn-like songs coloured with hints of jazz and gospel, making the whole experience an almost spiritual quest.” ★★★★ - Songlines (UK)

“A captivating set, with Dutcher’s extraordinary and expressive vocals underpinned by orchestral arrangements... Mesmerising, magical and often deeply moving.” ★★★★ - The Morning Star (UK)

“Dutcher yearns earnestly in a powerful voice that lands somewhere between Anohni and Curtis Stigers, doling out lush soul ballads, which deal with land sovereignty and queerness.” 7/10 - Uncut (UK)

“[Ancestors Too Young] is a powerful new prism through which the composer shines his light. His plaintive vibrato still reflects his opera training as he sings, […] but his howl eventually rises to a rock-inspired crescendo […]. It's an exciting new direction for the composer's upcoming sophomore album, Motewolonuwok, mixing art rock influences with orchestral swells and a jazz rhythm section.” – Exclaim!’s Staff Picks (CA)

“The song [Skicinuwihkuk] is tender and lyrical, but also takes flight on a wave of orchestral sound that amplifies the song’s emotional content” – WNYC “New Sounds” (US)

‘“Skicinuwihkuk” is a moving piece” – CBC Music (CA)

“richly orchestrated, his intimate ballads unfold an intense dramaturgy to transcend the pain of oppression and express the soothing beauty of resilience.”

 - Télérama (FR)

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