Photo: Nunavut’s Jerry Cans teach Maori kids throatsinging in New Zealand

One of Iqaluit’s favourite rockers, the Jerry Cans, pose in a crowd of Maori kids and others during a recent trip to New Zealand. Bandmembers Nancy Mike, fourth from left in the back row, and partner Andrew Morrison, sixth from left in middle row, spoke with local media about their experiences sharing Inuit culture with New Zealand’s Indigenous peoples during the Womad Festival March 18 to March 20. Local schools from Waitara, home to many Maori, invited band members for musical workshops and the band was thrilled to comply. “I was almost in tears, it just felt really, like… there was some sort of energy, it was so special,” Mike told the Taranaki Daily News. “We grew-up up north and we know lots of the challenges which young people face and to see young people singing and being empowered and with smiles on their face, and proud to be who they are, is a priceless, priceless thing,” said Morrison. (PHOTO COURTESY ANDREW MORRISON)