The Folk on the Rocks lineup will be equal parts North and South this year.

Those Northern acts are highlighted by a local underground rap group taking center stage Friday evening as 'Ororo Mohawk' will close out Warm the Rocks. The band, that is named after a superhero from the popular comic book series X-men, who carries the nickname SA国际影视传媒楽tormSA国际影视传媒� that can control the weather. The band's lead rapper, Alex Weir describes their groups style as having Heavy 808's and Dense Lyricism.

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Weir says that this year's Warm the Rocks event will be the band's final hurrah, meaning the band will have come full circle after the pair first got connected through the annual festival.

Weir first got paired with music producer Nick Walker, the other half of Ororo Mohawk, after they heard each other perform on separate year's at the annual youth competition Rock the Folks.

SA国际影视传媒淪o in high school he had this monologue to explain his thought process for his musical set (when he played at the festival) and I really dug it so in 2014 or 2015 I messaged him like hey can i have the transcript for your set. Then eventually he messaged me laterSA国际影视传媒� said Weir, SA国际影视传媒渟o I also did Rock the Folks, I did a rap set and then that pinged me on his radar I guess. Eventually we just established contact through that.SA国际影视传媒�

Walker expanded by noting that at the same time that Weir was performing Rock the Folks, he was looking to produce more Rap beats, so that once they got connected it felt natural that they would continue to work together.

SA国际影视传媒淚 had just finished going from Ottawa to Montreal and um I was done with what i was doing in Ottawa and I really wanted to work with a rapper, I really wanted to produce in the summer and the only person i could think of that would be dope enough and would be really chill was Alex,SA国际影视传媒� said Walker. SA国际影视传媒淪o i just sent him a message one day and was like 'yo i think we have similar brains wanna hang out and see what happens.'"

The pair then debuted as Ororo Mohawk in 2016 by hosting a number of shows in Weir's basement.

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From there the pair went on to play a show at After 8 pub, NWT Pride and The Raven Pub. Now they will be coming back to where it all began at Folk on the Rocks. The pair will be the last act of the night, meaning they will play after one of Yellowknife's most well known musicians, Tanya Tagaq, who is the headliner for FridaySA国际影视传媒檚 show.

SA国际影视传媒淪he's playing before us, that's messed up, I think she should be playing after us, it's one of those Wayne's world moments where we're like 'We're not worthy, we're not worthy','' said Walker.

Joining Ororo Mohawk and Tanya Tagaq on the Friday will be another Yellowknife musician, Andrea Bettger who will be playing earlier in the evening at Somba K'e plaza. But while Friday will heavily feature local acts, the weekend will be headlined by acts from Southern Canada. Whitehorse will close out Saturday and 'Stars' will be the last act on Sunday before the Yellowknife Dene First Nation's drummers close out the entire festival.

This will be Whitehorse's second time playing in Yellowknife and Luke Doucet a member of the band says that the band feels a connection to Northern Canada despite being from the south.

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Folk attendees can expect just over an hour of rock 'n' roll from the Saturday headliner that is now a threesome after going through a bit of a transition.

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While Ororo Mohawk will be disbanding after this year's Folk festival, the marquee Yellowknife will just be another stop for the more established Whitehorse.

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