{"id":14773,"date":"2024-09-23T13:50:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=14773"},"modified":"2024-09-23T13:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:50:58","slug":"classically-trained-artist-jeremy-dutcher-wins-historic-second-polaris-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/09\/23\/classically-trained-artist-jeremy-dutcher-wins-historic-second-polaris-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Classically-Trained Artist Jeremy Dutcher Wins Historic Second Polaris Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14774\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14774\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Jeremy-Dutcher.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Dutcher\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Jeremy-Dutcher.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Jeremy-Dutcher-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Jeremy-Dutcher-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Jeremy-Dutcher-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Dutcher won Canada\u2019s top music prize this week. The Indigenous tenor, composer, songwriter, and musicologist is the first artist in history to win the Polaris twice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeremy Dutcher won Canada\u2019s top music prize this week. The Indigenous tenor, composer, songwriter, and musicologist is the first artist in history to win the Polaris twice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving the news:<\/strong> On September 17th, Jeremy Dutcher was awarded the Polaris Music Prize for his album Motewolonuwok at Massey Hall in Toronto. The Montreal-based singer-songwriter is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolastoqiyik\">Wolastoqiyik<\/a> (Maliseet) member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tobique_First_Nation\">Tobique First Nation<\/a> in New Brunswick. He also won the Polaris in 2018 for his first album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h_-nPMKiIRI\">Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa<\/a>. Dutcher is the first artist to win the $50,000 CAD award twice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Playing catch-up:<\/strong> Jeremy Dutcher trained as an operatic tenor, and studied music and anthropology at Dalhousie University in Halifax. His first album incorporated 1907 recordings of traditional songs in Wolastoqey, while his second features a mixture of English and Wolastoqey original songs. Dutcher\u2019s albums work to preserve the Wolastoqey language while fostering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/music\/events\/polaris\/jeremy-dutcher-polaris-music-prize-winner-2024-1.7326386\">inclusivity, reclamation and reconciliation. <\/a>He has recently collaborated and performed for Yo-Yo Ma, Beverly Glenn Copeland, and Joni Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>The Polaris Music Prize is selected by an 11-member jury from a shortlist of 10 albums. Previous winners include Feist, Arcade Fire, Buffy Saint-Marie, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Dutcher and his ensemble <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GqfJNzfThrc?si=w031hrM7OuEpL5ak\">performed a medley<\/a> of three songs from Motewolonuwok at the Polaris Gala that\u2019s def worth a watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Dutcher won Canada\u2019s top music prize this week. The Indigenous tenor, composer, songwriter, and musicologist is the first artist in history to win the Polaris twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":14774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,340,3],"tags":[466,465],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Jeremy-Dutcher.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14775,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773\/revisions\/14775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14773"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}