Here’s a brief, but jam-packed, scoop on Diverse As This Land:
• 136 Indigenous artists benefited from the overall program
• 80 Indigenous artists participated the vocal intensive; 17 artists/bands featuring 53 artists performed in the concert series
• 14 nights of live Indigenous music with 2,000 audience members and 14 standing ovations
• 80 per cent of all the artists involved in the project were at The Banff Centre for the very first time
• Artists represented 25 different Indigenous nations from across Canada and 12 Indigenous nations from six other countries including Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea and the USA
via https://www.banffcentre.ca/articles/diverse-land-how-place-shapes-our-cultural-expression