Nigel Irwin is a Cree-Canadian musician, composer, and storyteller from Niagara Treaty territory, who lives in Toronto - Dish With One Spoon Territory.

As Creative Director of Nagamo, Irwin has helped build the first production-music library created entirely by Indigenous artists, working closely with a growing network of Indigenous singers and musicians worldwide. In addition, Irwin also provides original musical scores for film and television projects.

Recent credits include scoring the Crave Original Thunder Bay and CTV’s Acting Good. Further credits include mixing and sound design for BUFFY Podcast for CBC, two Nature of Things episodes, and the Tom Longboat Heritage Minute. He also provided the score for two recent award-winning productions, Shadow of the Rougarou on AppleTV and kwéskosíw (She Whistles), which won Best Short Film at the recent Weengushk International Film Festival.

Irwin also provided the music for a VR Experience produced by the NFB called This Is Not A Ceremony which made Official Selection at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. 

Through his own artist music, Irwin became the 2019 recipient of the Bullseye Music Award through imagineNATIVE and Slaight Music. With OAC, Canada Council, and FACTOR grant funding, he is developing his first full-length LP. 

Since releasing songs in 2014, Irwin’s music has appeared on CBC, SiriusXM, ElementFM, and Zoomer Radio. As a writer, Irwin’s work has excelled outside of music creation. Irwin hasbeen published in VICE, The Nation, Two Row Times, and the Niagara Falls Review, covering a wide range of Indigenous stories.