Electric Pow Wow: Back to School Edish

The new school year just began, and before things get busy and you’re swamped with homework, crushed under the weight of way too many course readings, you might was well dance all night while you still can, with your good friends from A Tribe Called Red.

This Saturday in Ottawa, ATCR's holding one of their monthly Electric Pow Wow dance parties at Babylon nightclub. If you’re in the Ottawa area, and haven’t made it out to Pow Wow yet, get on it. Make Saturday night a priority. Electric Pow Wow is always an excellent time.

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What’s become an Ottawa tradition at Babylon began back in 2007 when DJs NDN, Bear Witness and Shub decided to host a monthly party for their Indigenous friends. The party was a hit, and has grown in popularity ever since.

“Indigenous people are used to being invisible, keeping our heads down,” Witness said in a profile piece on the group that ran in the Guardian paper a couple of months ago. “So when people started freaking out across the dance floor, we knew we were on to something.”

And despite ATCR’s success, they’re still true to where they got their start, still holding the monthly parties and getting Ottawans — and Indigenous youth who come to the city for school — to move to the drum beat, together.