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This is where I got some of my information

It's their official website

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“Robust roots-rock, gruff Inuk throat singing, beery Celtic punk... There’s plenty in this ensemble’s tank”

The Globe and Mail

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there were little google serches and websites I used once or twice but I came back to this one to refere to any information

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The Jerry Cans are a distinctly northern, one-of-a-kind mix of Inuktitut, throat singing, alt-country, folk and reggae band.

The Iqaluit-based band are Andrew Morrison, Nancy Mike, Gina Burgess, Brendan Doherty and Steve Rigby and finds inspiration for their distinct sound from the north, the language and the people.

But even though many of their songs are in Inuktitut, with the exception of Nancy Mike, the members of the band are all non-Inuit.

Language of love

"I used singing to become fluent," explains Morrison, who grew up in Iqaluit but didn't speak the language until he fell in love. His wife Nancy Mike, who is a throat singer and plays the accordion in The Jerry Cans, provided the inspiration and her father, who only spoke Inuktitut, provided the stern instruction.

"He was a full-time hunter and had lots of rifles and he was very clear that I was to learn Inuktitut if I was to date his queen."

He would take Morrison out on the land to hunt or fish for weeks at a time teaching him through total immersion.

"Either it was Inuktitut or it was silence."

He said Nancy's father Laivi knew they were falling in love and that they would someday have children so he wanted Morrison to be able to pass on the language and traditions of Inuit culture. After he passed away two years ago, Nancy gave birth to her second child and named the girl Laivi, after her father, in keeping with an Inuit custom.

Though Morrison admits there are some pitfalls to being a non-Inuk, speaking and singing Inuktitut passionately and challenging common misperceptions about life in the Arctic.

"It was complicated for us to start doing this," he said recalling a moment in the early days of the band, where they sang a well-known song by Uvagut, a famous Inuit band from the 1990's who were very politically involved.

"The lead singer of the band was out camping and somebody went out and said 'ah man, these three white dudes were singing your song at the legion last night' and she was like 'what?' This was her reaction, kind of aggressive and she said, 'I have to go see this!' So the next time we played she was there and she was like' Oh! It's Andrew," he laughed.

Multicultural band makes multicultural music

"There's no way to get around it, we're a bunch of white dudes. It is still a multicultural band, Nancy is Inuk from Pangnirtung and speaks Inuktitut but how we approach the idea of cultural appropriation is that we still see ourselves as very much part of Iqaluit community.

He said The Jerry Cans, who are touring their third album Inuusiq (Life), are a reflection of the diverse music found and combined in the north. With television came country music, which is very popular in Inuit communities. With the whalers, many from Celtic communities on the East coast, came the fiddle and accordion, which has been adopted in the north as traditional instruments. Then with modern technology like the Internet and iTunes, reggae and rock became popular with the young people.

"We are kind of just the product of that," said Morrison. "We've always wanted to try and find away to bring traditional sounds together with modern sound because that's what I think young people in Nunavut are struggling with and I think young people in a lot of places are struggling with, trying to figure out a way in life between those two worlds."

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The Jerry Cans combine traditional and modern for diverse sound | CBC Radio

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The Jerry Cans is an Iqaluit-based band who find inspiration for their sound from their hometown. They are a self-described mix of Inuktitut, alt-country, throat singing, and reggae. But here's the catch - not all the members of the band are Inuit.

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Sometimes Andrew Morrison felt as if his Nunavut-based rock band the Jerry Cans was suffocated by the expectations put upon them.

But Morrison never intended to stop making music. If anything, the 37-year-old wanted to break out of the box he felt the music industry trapped the Jerry Cans inside for so long.

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The band would get in to fights ever so often, and mostly of the time, it was about which language, English or Inuktitut, was better to sing in

They decided to take a break right around when COVID broke in, after the group's sole Inuk member, Nancy Mike, left in January 2020. Their tour also got cancelled because of COVID and that's when they decided to take a little break from making music. They haven't gotten back together to make music ever since

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Andrew Morrison on his solo project away from the Jerry Cans

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Andrew Morrison, a member of the Jerry Cans talks about his solo effort ‘Echoes Of...’ and its rejection of the ‘genre pressures.’

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Havana by the Jerry Cans from the album Echos 

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The song I really enjoyed from them is called Havana.

It is from the album Echos, released May 15, 2020, thier last album before thier break.

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Thier first album that they released was called Nunavuttitut.

After that release, they released two more singles Atauttikkut and Havava that were a preview of their next album they released, Echos in 2020

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They also have a YouTube channel where they post some Official Music Videos and Lyrics Videos

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Your browser is deprecated. Please upgrade.The Jerry Cans

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Iqaluit’s The Jerry Cans are a band from and for the north—they’ve always been committed to making music that honours and dialogues with their home communities. The JUNO Award-nominated group bring a wash of glassy, slashing electric guitars, thundering drums, effects-warped throat singing, and darkened violin work, echoing sounds of love, anxiety, desperation, and grief, as well as the tangled relationships in between. From buzzing indie rock to towering shoegaze to moonlit country to Arctic post-punk, The Jerry Cans continue a tradition of celebration and resistance through music, marching in lockstep and acknowledging the vital, fortifying importance of both. The Jerry Cans are: guitarist/vocalist Andrew Morrison, vocalists/throat singers/accordionists Nancy Mike and Avery Keenainak, violinist Gina Burgess, bassist Brendan Doherty, and drummer Steve Rigby.

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they also use Apple Music

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The Jerry Cans is a Indigenous band from Iqaluit, Nunavut. They consist of five singers,

Andrew Morrison (vocals, guitar)

Avery Keenainak (vocals, throat singing, accordion)

Gina Burgess (violin)

Brendan Doherty (bass)

Steve Rigby (drums)

There was also Nancy Mike who was more fluent in Inuktitut

They are mostly known for making Inuktitut, alt-country, throat singing, and reggae music

They sing both English and Inukitittut