Vision Quest, a First Nations hip-hop group from Whitehorse, Y.T., is headlining the library’s two-day celebration of the launch of its new Storyboard game.

The free show starts at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the library. It is co-sponsored by the Junior Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 5.

Library education and cultural coordinator Jessie Morgan said she booked Vision Quest on the recommendation of carver Wayne Price, who saw the group perform at the Adaka Cultural Festival in Whitehorse.

“They are contemporary Native artists. I think that is something to show youth, something to aspire to,” Morgan said.

Price said even thought rap is “a little over the top” for him, he enjoyed the group’s performance at Adaka. “I just remember being in the big hall at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre and it was wall to wall people, and they all looked like they were having a really, really nice time,” he said.

Price said he appreciates Vision Quest’s uniqueness and their message that First Nations are not limited in the kind of music they can produce. “It’s a totally unique form of art. They are artists in their own right and they should be recognized for it,” Price said.

The trio consists of MC Nick Johnson, MC Yudii Mercredi and DJ Mackenzie Smith, though Smith won’t be making the trip down to Haines. The three men first performed together at Whitehorse’s 2013 Frostbite music festival, during a Battle of the Bands competition where they took home first prize.

Vision Quest has performed alongside Hollerado, Cadence Weapon, Josh Martinez, Stretch Nine and A Tribe Called Red.

Johnson was born and raised in the Yukon and is a Southern Tuchone First Nation. He attended Capilano University and obtained a degree in the Indigenous Independent Digital Film program. Mercredi is a member of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.

Last year, Vision Quest traveled to Inuvik to conduct a two-day workshop to teach participants how to write their own songs and shoot their own music videos.