A celebrated Alaska musician is a contestant in what has become an Arctic version of the international music competition known as Eurovision.
Qacung Blanchett, who with his brother, founded the award-winning band Pamyua, is one of nine artists or groups from the circumpolar north scheduled to perform Saturday in Pan-Arctic Vision, a musical event that was launched last year. Other competitors are from northern areas of Finland, Sweden and Norway, Canada’s Nunavut Territory, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. There is even a Russian contestant, a singer from Murmansk who is currently living in Norway…