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Elsner and his brother performed acoustically at the Alianait Arts Festival in Iqaluit after being invited for Nunavut Day on July 9. \u201cSix years ago we were there for the second time. Just acoustic. Some of the [other] band members couldn\u2019t go, but we went anyway, my brother Frederik and I. 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