Tenebrae
A Prayer for Deliverance
SAT MAR 14 8PM
Sanders Theatre
Elisapie
Stave Sessions
Crystal Ballroom Somerville Th - Crystal Ballroom
Your Concert Experience
- Stave Sessions events at Crystal Ballroom are general admission standing room, with limited seating at high and low tables.
- Doors will open and bar service will begin one hour before the performance.
Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter Elisapie’s music will get your attention. It will sound familiar, with her lovely, soulful, voice that slides effortlessly from folk to rock and back again. But listen closer. You know the tune—it’s “Time After Time” or “Heart of Glass”—but you don’t know the words: she’s singing in Inuktitut, an Inuit language. She has transformed a pop culture touchstone into a heartfelt moment of beauty; you can hear the nostalgia, the melancholy.
Alongside originals, Elisapie reinvents iconic pop and rock songs, beautifully and with intention, to connect to her memories of growing up in Nunavik among the people, places, and language she carries with her.
“It's a lot of sad things, but it's also very beautiful, because these people were beautiful," she says. "We were all beautiful. The North is beautiful. And I think music makes it even more beautiful. It's able to make things much softer, when things are hard. I think these songs — these big hits that I chose — were not just because they were big hits, but because they really meant a lot, and they were our friends during hard times.”
Elisapie to NPR's World Cafe
“Elisapie is—and has always been—an artist with deep intention and purpose and a love for her mother tongue.”
ELLE Canada
“Elisapie has a voice that has such soulful warmth and it works wonders on these atmospheric songs.”
The Gazette (Montreal)
Featured Artist
Videos
Elisapie - Isumagijunnaitaungituq (The Unforgiven)
Elisapie – Qimatsilunga (I Want to Break Free)
Elisapie – Tiny Desk Concert
Crystal Ballroom Information
Stave Sessions is generously supported by
the Thonis Family.
Additional support by the
Consulate General of Canada in Boston and
Délégation du Québec à Boston.
This performance is made possible in part by support from Vivo Performing Arts' Amy & Joshua Boger Innovation Fund.
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