Presented by The International Indigenous Music Summit and Small World Music

The International Indigenous Music Summit (IIMS) is the largest global event solely dedicated to celebrating, creating awareness, sharing resources, and building opportunities for the Indigenous music community. IIMS 2025 will take place June 2-6, 2025 at the TD Music Hall and key performance venues across Toronto. The event will shine a spotlight on over 45 incredible Indigenous artists from around the world, and will feature a traditional welcoming ceremony and feast, opening night Gala, and daytime programming including elder talks, keynotes, B2B networking sessions, master classes and community roundtables.

Join us at TD Music Hall on Thursday, June 5, 2025, for a very special showcase lineup Juurini, FLEWNT & INKABEE, Diyet & The Love Soldiers, and Soleil Launière.

About the Artists:

Juurini: Juurini is the Inuit name for singer-songwriter Joey Partridge. Originally from Kuujjuaq, Juurini sings in his native language the memories of the north, the smells and sounds that woke him up in the morning in an ambient folk style using his guitar and traditional instruments. Juurini is an awards nominated artist touring the North constantly, singing and lifting the spirits for his people making this world a better place. He is a family man. His greatest dream is to see his Inuit people succeed and overcome the various obstacles they face in the face of modernity. Joey lives to be that change by guiding his pairs through his past experiences.

FLEWNT & INKABEE: Joshua “Flewnt” Eggington is an award winning, Proud Nyoongar Wongi rapper from Boorloo (Perth). With a strong family legacy rooted in activism. Flewnt uses his raw Hip Hop flow and modern-day musings as his platform to articulate a powerful, positive, and uplifting message for his people. After writing his first rap at age seven, INKABEE exploded onto the Australian music scene in December 2022, at just 11 years old, with his debut track ‘Beat the Odds’. The Noongar Wongi hip-hop MC from Boorloo (Perth) Western Australia, quickly caught the industry’s attention for his undeniable talent and natural ability. FLEWNT’s collaborations with his son INKABEE have become a cornerstone of his career. Their viral triple j Bars of Steel performance of “We Dat Good” amassed millions of views, culminating in a live performance on America’s Got Talent. Together, they continue to redefine intergenerational storytelling in hip-hop.

Diyet & the Love Soldiers: Diyet van Lieshout is a songwriter and singer from the high Kluane mountains of the Yukon Territory, Canada. She is a songwriter with over 20 years of experience and has been singing professionally for 25 years. Diyet’s songs have been published in Asia, Europe and North America, but mainly, she writes music that she performs as Diyet and Diyet & the Love Soldiers. Diyet’s lyrics and melodies are rooted in her lived experience, especially to the land and community where she was born and raised, the traditional territory of the Kluane First Nation.

Soleil Launière: Révélation Radio-Canada 2024-2025 and winner of the 2024 Francouvertes, Soleil Launière is a multidisciplinary Innu artist from Mashteuiatsh. In 2024, she was also nominated at the ADISQ gala in the categories Indigenous Artist of the Year and Album of the year - Indigenous language, as well as at the GAMIQ for Indie-Rock Album, and at the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame for the Francophone Songwriting Discover Award. In the fall of 2023, she released Taueu, her debut album, which explores themes of identity, language, femininity, and matriarchy. On stage, with the accomplished musicians of CHANCES (Chloé Lacasse, Geneviève Toupin, Vincent Carré) and Simon Walls, she blends vocal harmonies and powerful percussion with performance art. This bold and intriguing new soul-roots project takes the audience on a deep and captivating journey.

The 2025 International Indigenous Music Summit welcomes everyone to attend and registrations are now open to the public. For tickets and details, please visit indigenousmusicsummit.com

Doors open 6:30 PM

The 2025 Small World Music Series is sponsored by TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment and funded by the Government of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.