Anishnaabe Music: More Than Pow-Wow

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Andrea Canter

Lyz Jaakola singing.

Lyz Jaakola

This concert will focus on Ojibwe-Anishnaabe music via songs, storytelling and visuals, presented by UW Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures 2025 folk-musician-in-residence Lyz Jaakola (Nitaa-Nagamokwe, a tribally enrolled Fond du Lac Ojibwe with Finnish-American heritage). The program kicks off a series of events celebrating 150 years of Scandinavian studies at UW-Madison; find a livestream on YouTube and more events at gns.wisc.edu.

media release: Join Lyz Jaakola for a live informance at the Play Circle Theater at Memorial Union!

Lyz Jaakola, Nitaa-Nagamokwe (The lady who knows how to sing) is the 2025 folk-musician-in-residence. Jaakola is a tribally enrolled Fond du Lac Ojibwe with Finnish-American heritage who will share traditional and modern Ojibwe-Anishinaabe songs and knowledge from her life-long study of Native American music, especially Anishinaabe women’s music. Using an Indigenous Informance style, weaving story, visuals and song she will be joined by her 18-year-old son to offer their 21st century American Indian perspectives.

The event will be livestreamed on the CSUMC YouTube channel.

The event is free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ as part of celebrating 150 years of Scandinavian Studies on campus.