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An obscure annual tradition in the music community for the past nine years, Drone Day in Whitehorse has perplexed and fascinated literally dozens of people. Last year's event saw a group of droners go out to a remote quarry on the Annie Lake Road to send their meditative drone sounds to the trees and mountains. With a truck full of recording and video equipment, Something Shows captured the experience and brought it to life again through an immersive audio-visual exhibit showcased at Wondercrawl and the Dawson City Short Film Festival in the fall of 2020.

2021's event takes place outside the CJUC cabin in Shipyards Park on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta'an Kwäch'än Council, where it will be broadcast live on CJUC 92.5FM. A less ambitious affair than last year, this Drone Day is open to the public to join in and contribute to the orchestra of long, warbling noises. What can be confirmed is the following: a homemade synthesizer courtesy of Big Boat Records through their recent Jenni House Artists' Residency, as well as an experimental "Hydrodrone" (creating drone sounds out of micing, effecting, and amplifying water), as well as the usual suspects of synthesizers and knobbly effects pedals.

This event is parallel to Dawson City’s Drone Day event occurring and broadcast live on Dawson City’s CFYT Radio Station at the same time in the Palace Grand Theatre, organized on by KIAC. At either event, the other town’s parallel broadcast feed will be piped in to join that event’s drones, so that both towns will be droning together, feeding off of one another, though distant.