Juneau’s Indigenous music festival, Áak’w Rock ... and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska worked together to produce Áak’w Rock in the past.

Giddens was named a MacArthur Genius Fellow in 2017, and won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for the opera “Omar,” which she cocomposed and performed. It’s based on a memoir written by an enslaved Muslim man in ...

This year’s Áak’w Rock, promoted as the largest Indigenous music festival ... three-day event. The festival is meant to alternate years with Celebration, a multi-day Alaska Natives gathering ...