indigenous art & a new rendezvous queen...

the art world was buzzing this week, with the announcement of a $2-million endowment of funds to the national gallery of canada... the dollars were donated by the audain foundation, based out of vancouver... each and every penny of the endowment will go towards strengthening and encouraging the gallery's indigenous art collection... it's good news for some of canada's most valuable indigenous artists and great news for curator greg a. hill... he'll step forward to head up the collection from here, so homegrown spoke with him about what it all means...

while everyone has been shopping and trimming the tree, you might have lost sight of what other fine occasion is on its way to greet us yukoners... it's almost time to crown a brand new yukon sourdough rendezvous queen... to find out all about what sort of lady could take the top spot, homegrown welcomes 2007 reigning queen jacklyn stockstill in to the studio, along with queen mom, adrienne marsh, and contest administrator, marjie klein...

tracks:
1. Blue Rodeo - C'mon
2. Julie Dorion - No More
3. City & Colour - Save Your Scissors
4. The Most Serene Republic - Stay Ups
5. Kim Barlow - But He Don't
6. The Reason ft. Sara Quin - We're So Beyond This
7. Chad Vangaalen - I Miss You Like I Miss You
8. Octoberman - Once In A Blue
9. Metric - Down
10. Danny Michel - Perfect
11. Spiral Beach - Made of Stone
12. Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime
13. Serena Ryder - Stay For An Hour
14. Caribou - Hello Hammerheads
15. Al Oster - Sourdough Rendezvous
16. Broken Social Scene - Looks Just Like The Sun
17. Emm Gryner - Symphonic
18. Malajube - Montreal -40C