Áak’w Rock, the United States’ only Indigenous music festival, held its first full in-person festival Sept. 21-23, 2023, in Juneau.
Áak’w Rock held its first full in-person festival Sept. 21-23 in Juneau. It featured three days of music over three venues with more than 25 artists performing.
Emily Mesner is a former multimedia journalist for the Anchorage Daily News. She previously worked for the National Park Service at Denali National Park and Preserve and the Western Arctic National Parklands in Kotzebue, at the Cordova Times and at the Jackson Citizen Patriot in Jackson, Michigan.