Black Bear

Black Bear, sometimes credited as Black Bear Singers, are a Canadian musical group from Manawan, Quebec, who perform traditional First Nations music.They are frequent collaborators with the group A Tribe Called Red.

Black Bear started in 2000. They showed their pride in their Atikamekw culture and heritage by singing in their language, which is still commonly spoken today. They began forming in the style characterized as northern contemporary, which features high-pitched singing, songs that speed up after 2nd, 3rd and 4th song repetition (three levels of speed) and honour beats that occur at the end of the first phrase of the tail.