December 15, 2011

Indigenous Live Music Picks December 15-18

December 15, 2011/ RPM

Winter is rolling into Turtle Island, but the music is still hot. Here are RPM's top 5 Indigenous live music picks for the weekend.

Urban Aboriginal Winter Festival December 13-15 The festival which has included film screenings and hip-hop bingo continues tonight with "Aboriginal Blues Revue" featuring Wayne Lavallee, Murray Porter, Dalannah Gail Bowen and Russel Wallace at W2 Media Café in Vancouver, BC. More info: Urban Aboriginal Winter Festival.

Xmas Fest 3 December 15 - Ali Fontaine, C-Weed, Joey Stylez and others will perform and party in support of the Christmas Cheer Board at the Pyramid Cabaret, Winnipeg, MB. More info: facebook.com.

Amero Little Christmas December 16 - Don Amero, with special guest Jaylene Johnson, celebrates Christmas in support of Agape Table at Ellice Cafe & Theatre in Winnipeg, MB. More info: Amero Little Christmas with very special guest Jaylene Johnson.

Yelawolf December 17 - Catch Yelawolf perform at the Offical Dew Tour after party in Breckenbridge, Colorado. If you're going, be sure to check out Yelawolf's content to win meet & greet pases at facebook.com/yelawolf . More info on the Dew Tour: breckenridge.com/events/dew-tour.

Hip-Hop for Hunger December 17 - The annual event includes perfromances by Ms. Teaze and Lil' Smokey, raising funds and collecting non-perishable food items for the Calgary Food Bank at Dickens Pub, Calgary, Alberta. More info: Calgary's 3rd Annual Hip Hop for Hunger Food Drive/ Hip Hop Show.

RPM Records

Revolutions Per Minute is a global new music platform, record label, and boutique agency for Indigenous music culture. RPM’s mission is to build a visionary community of Indigenous artists and to introduce Indigenous music to new audiences across Turtle Island and around the world. Our main site, RPM.fm, has featured the work of more than 500 Indigenous artists and shared their music across our social networks of more than 275,000 followers.

RPM Records is the first of its kind: a label for contemporary, cross-genre Indigenous music, run by Indigenous people. Selected by The FADER as one of “5 New Canadian Record Labels The Entire World Should Know”, RPM Records artists include Ziibiwan , Leanne Betasamosake Simpson , Exquisite Ghost , and Mob Bounce .