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The songs on Running for the Drum include "No No Keshages " a fiery protest dance song set to a driving powwow beat : "America the Beautiful" a striking new arrangement of the familiar song that includes a nod to the country's Native peoples; "To the End of the World"an old fashioned R&B love song; " Cho Cho Fire," a dance/rock song that uses a sample from the Black Lodge Singers; and "When I Had You" a torch song drenched with smoky,late night piano bar melancholy " The music is my usual whiplash collection of manty styles-pop,protest,country,rock,dance-remix,rockabilly and big love songs,"

Magazine articles - The Beat magazine, Nov 2010

I live on a goat farm in the mountains. I'm raising 27 goats and two horses and a kitty cat.Plus I'm on the road with a rock'n'roll band,so i can work on my music which I'm doing constantly. If you don't see me, I'm at my busiest.

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Video : Doctor of MusicSchool of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

"I can't read music . . . I'm dyslexic in music. Music comes from the inside and the arts come from the inside .
My attraction to music begin as a child. Little dyslexic me who didn't know all about sharps and flats developed a love for the piano.
Children are natural singers, dancers and actors.Before there was written music, there was music
Please bring the spirit that brought you to this university to others for the rest of your lives.Give it to them.
Learn your culture. Teach Your Culture. Be your culture.

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Doctor of MusicSchool of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Faculty of Social Science (Honours, Four Year)

VIDEO - Democracy Now-Special : An Hour of Music and Conversation with Buffy Sainte-Marie

bAn hour of conversation and music with Cree Indian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. In the turbulent 1960s, she was just out of college but already famous for her beautiful voice and moving lyrics in songs like “Universal Soldier” and “Now that the Buffalo’s Gone.” Over the years, Buffy Sainte-Marie has worked with the American Indian Movement, but also with Sesame Street, and even Hollywood, winning an Academy Award for the song “Up Where We Belong” in 1982. She’s won international recognition for her music, has a PhD in fine arts, and began a foundation for American Indian Education that she remains closely involved with.

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Starwalker - Cho Cho Fire / Live performance

Video Live performance of Starwalker

Video Live performance of Cho Cho Fire

2010 GIA CONFERENCE

Opening  the final plenary of the 2010 GIA conference

Buffy Sainte-Marie :
* The music business is about music, not business; artists are there to pull the cart, to be milked for money.
* They say nobody wants war, but that’s not true: war is about money-laundering, not that this religion doesn’t like that religion.
 * I’ve got more degrees and honorary degrees than you’ve had hot dinners. Colleges today are corporate vocational schools where corporations and the military go to recruit kids.
 * When one has a billion and a billion have none, something is wrong.
 * In North America, we have five major heavily funded colleges of war where a guy can go and spend his life getting advanced degrees in how to make war better. We don’t have one such college of that caliber and funding dedicated to alternative conflict resolution. How can a young person learn from Martin Luther King and Gandhi?

ALBUM - The Pathfinder - Buried Treasures (2010)

Song Titles:

   1.Generation (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
   2.Sweet Little Vera (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
   3.Hong Kong Star Boy (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
   4.Look At The Facts (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
   5.Sweet, Fast Hooker Blues (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
   6.Nobody Will Ever Know It's Real But You (Norbert Putnam &
   7.Eagle Man / Changing Woman (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
   8.You Take Me Away (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
   9.Starwalker: For the American Indian Movement (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  10.All Around The World (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  11.I've Really Fallen For You (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  12.Love's Got to Breathe and Fly (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  13.A Man (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  14.I Can't Take It No More (John Hall)
  15.Sweet January (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  16.Can't You See The Way I Love You (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  17.Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  18.Mongrel Pup (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  19.I Been Down (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  20.The Beauty Way (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  21.Where Poets Go (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  22.That's The Way You Fall In Love (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  23.HEY! Baby Howdja Do Me This Way? (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  24.Don't Need No City Life (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  25.Wynken, Blynken & Nod (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  26.Can't Believe The Feeling When You're Gone (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  27.Free The Lady (Barry Greenfield)
  28.Sweet America (Barry Greenfield)
  29.Honey Can You Hang Around (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  30.Waves (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  31.America My Home (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  32.Ain't No Time For Worryin' Blues (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  33.Til I See You Again (Jusqu Au Je Te Revois) (Buffy Sainte-Marie)

 

Review of The Pathfinder: Buried Treasures : This two-disc reissue collection features material from her mid-70's recordings - a mix of well-known anthems and rarities.  Check out the full review

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Sesame Street

One of the big stories in entertainment news today involves an episode of Sesame Street where current popular singing sensation Katy Perry sings and dances with the far more popular furry red squealer muppet known as Elmo. Apparently, the dress Perry wore for the number was considered inappropriate, showing too much cleavage and, well, jiggle-age for the toddlers to bear. However, having looked at the Katy Perry/Elmo footage, which was available for a little while on YouTube, it was fairly obvious that Miss Piggy has gotten away with more revealing outfits than Ms. Perry’s, not to mention that her boobs are bigger.

Now we all know that the 70s were sometimes a more risque time when it comes to sexuality on television, yes even US television, and I wondered what kinds of controversy Sesame Street managed to get itself into back in an even more open era. After all it was controversial from the start – Mississippi tried to ban it because “Mississippi was not yet ready” for the multi-racial cast, there were complaints that there weren’t enough Hispanics on the show, then too many Hispanics, that the women were subservient and weak, then people complained there were too many strong single women on the show. It would seem whatever they try to do Sesame Street can’t win, and yet it always does. Katy Perry’s clip has been pulled from the show before it was even aired, and the clip they themselves posted has been taken down.

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Darling, Don't Cry -Videos

Buffy Sainte Marie September 18th 2009 Sherwood Park Alberta



Red Bull & Buffy St Marie, National AboriginaL Achievement Awards, Regina Sask , March 26 2010



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Buffy Sainte-Marie performs as part of Membertou 400, Atlantic Canada's largest powwow ever, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Pow Wow 2010 Manawan

Tour -Concert Dates 2011

Date	City	Venue
Sun, Apr. 17, 2011	Aukland, New Zealand	Power Station
Wed, Apr. 20, 2011	Melbourne, Australia	National Theatre
Sat, Apr. 23, 2011	Sydney, Australia	State Theatre
Sun, Apr. 24, 2011 - Mon, Apr. 25, 2011	Byron Bay, Australia	Bluesfest
Sat, May. 7, 2011	Ottowa, Ontario, Canada	Bronson Centre
Mon, May. 9, 2011 - Tue, May. 10, 2011	London, Ontario, Canada	Aeolian Hall
Fri, May. 13, 2011	Unionville, Connecticut	Infiinty Hall
Fri, Jul. 1, 2011	Oxfordshire, UK	Cornbury Festival
Sat, Jul. 2, 2011	Skagen, Denmark	Skagen Festival
Sat, Jul. 23, 2011 - Sun, Jul. 24, 2011	Calgary, Alberta, Canada	Calgary Folk Festival

UPDATE : Feb 18th & 19th Winnipeg
March 1st-9th Hawaii

Buffy Sainte-Marie : Biographie , Interview - Video

 CBC The Hour March 17, 2010-Part 1



CBC The Hour March 17, 2010-Part 2

Broken Rainbow (film)

Broken Rainbow is a 1985 documentary film about the government-enforced relocation of thousands of Navajo Native Americans from their ancestral homes in Arizona.

The Navajo were relocated to aid mining speculation in a process that began in the 1970s and continues to this day. The film is narrated by Martin Sheen.

The title song was written by Laura Nyro, the theme music was composed by Paul Apodaca, with other original music by Rick Krizman and Fred Myrow.It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. (Wikipedia)

Director: Victoria Mudd
Writers: Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd,
Stars: Martin Sheen, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Burgess Meredith