Montreal-based Inuk folk-pop singer and songwriter, Elisapie, is from the Far North, and her music draws from and takes pride in her Inuit and First Nations origins – while also journeying through some heavy emotional territory.

The JUNO-nominated Elisapie (Élisapie Isaac) is originally from Salluit, Nunavik, but has lived in Montreal for 20 years. On her most recent record, The Ballad of the Runaway Girl, Elisapie reaffirms her connections to her sonic roots in Inuit and Native folk music. She sings in her native Inuktitut, as well as in English and French; there’s a song in touch with Inuit animism, and an ode to missing and murdered aboriginal girls and women, along with a song in defense of the territory - "Call of the Moose." All that pls, a heartfelt reconciliation song asking her biological mother what it felt like to give her up for adoption. 

Elisapie plays songs from her recent record, The Ballad of the Runaway Girl in-studio. - Caryn Havlik 

Watch the session here:

Listen to music from the album: 

The Ballad of the Runaway Girl by Elisapie