(CBC) New music library offers new revenue stream for Indigenous musicians
Cree musician Nigel Irwin isn't in the music business for the money — he's in it because he loves the craft. But, when given the chance to work with samples to create an all-Indigenous library of production music, he jumped at it.
Production music is the type of music that turns up in ads, on film scores and in podcasts.Nigel Irwin is a Cree artist who creates and remixes music for the Storytellers library. (Zoe Tennant/CBC) Irwin is working with Toronto-based production music company Bedtracks on their new Indigenous library called Storytellers. Irwin realized it was a chance to open up a whole new market — and revenue stream —for Indigenous musicians…
