Tune into Beat the World this Saturday @ 1:15pm as Sugarface Nene and Neil Lalla interview Willie Thrasher: a talented Canadian Inuit musician based in Nanaimo, B.C. where, when not playing festivals like Levitation Vancouver, he performs as a city sanctioned busker with his partner Linda Saddleback! Born in Aklavik, Northwest Territories, Thrasher was taken from his family at the age of five and sent to a residential school where he was forbidden to practice his Inuvialuit culture, a shameful initiative by the Canadian government to assimilate Indigenous people into mainstream society. Music was a way for Thrasher to e