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News! "Up Risin'" is nominated for a 2009 ECMA!

MO3, aka Phyllis Grant, is a mother, artist, rapper, wordsmith, beat composer, filmmaker, dreamer and lover of all creation. She's from the Mi'gmaq community of Pabineau First Nation, New Brunswick, Canada. Her very first cd, "Up Risin'", was released in August, 2008 and is nominated for an ECMA 2009! You may find it at cdbaby, amazon, target or iTunes. She has performed across Canada in both intimate and very large venues, and is currently preparing an art+rap+spoken word show to reflect the release of her album, and hopes to perform in a few select cities in the coming year. Phyllis's artwork has been exhibited in Canada at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba and with Honor the Earth's "Impacted Nations" in New York, Minneapolis, Santa Fe and Chicago. In 2004, Phyllis was nominated for an East Coast Music Award (Industry, manager of the year) She feels the implementation of all types of art, music and writing -as progressive forms of expression- lead to true cultural and spiritual understanding. Her contemporary observations connect and celebrate the people in her community with the patterns, swirls, forces and beats that exist in nature. Phyllis is a Canada Council grantee for Writing and Publishing and a member of the Writer's Guild of Canada, the East Coast Music association (ECMA), the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) and recently, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) In 2006, she completed her first film, "Maq and the Spirit of the Woods" -a children's animation produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It has been selected and screened at several festivals, including the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, the American Indian Film Institute's Film Festival in San Francisco, the Chicago International Children's Film Festival and National Geographic's All Roads Film Festival in Los Angeles and Washington DC. The film is also in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Phyllis's work is also featured in Pearson Canada's "Literacy In Action" textbooks, launched Autumn, 2007. She is currently directing her second animated film with the National Film Board of Canada (2008) Lyrics, art and music available at: www.phyllisgrant.com e-mail MO3 at ancestorca@yahoo.com