Music

It has been a musical week as well at SPL. A visiting First Nations school K’ak’ot’latsi based in Quatsino Sound near Port Hardy played their school song in the Whale Room. One of the parents Tom Wamiss, gifted with dark toned voice, also sang a beautiful First Nations song to thank SPL for its hospitality. The school kids accompanied him by playing on traditional drums.
The school group is part of the Quatsino First Nation and the traditional language is a dialect of Kwakw’ala. Tom has learned the stories and songs from his father and he introduces students to the traditional culture of his people.
Friday the students from Island Ukulele arrived for a day program. Only for a brief moment their instruments came out of their cases. The kids were way to busy with paddling and zip lining. The few accords they played sounded amazing though.