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Tuesday 31 May 2011

Fallen Angels Lyrics & Video



I got a man in the business line
He power hungry, he's a money mine
Smooth as satin he's a big time shark
Fallen Angel
I got a brother, oo he mean as sin
He got a brother who's just like him
Livin' over in Moscow, 2 of a kind.
How come the great power got the junkie mind
Fallen Angels
They never get enough
Fallen Angels oo oo
They got the addictions
Fallen Angels
They litter the skies
Fallen Angels
Don't you wanna turn 'em around
Turn 'em around

I got a man in the USA
He runnin' guns with the CIA
He's the best that being bad can be
Who'd think he do it all for me
What's it matter if you're green or red
The Yankee dollar or the commie threat
When the real power in the real world
Gonna deny it all anyway
Fallen Angels
They never get enough
Fallen Angels oo oo
They got the addictions


Fallen Angels
They litter the skies
Fallen Angels
Don't you wanna turn 'em around
Turn 'em around



You believe in the system from the top on down
Potential is a beautiful thing
It's hard to keep believing in the big time
Now you're sinking in the wind
Star light, star bright
Somebody going down tonight
Told the truth when it was time to lie
Got it right
Fallen Angels
They never gel enough
Fallen Angels hoo hoo
They got the addictions
Fallen Angels
They litter the skies
Fallen Angels
Don't you wanna turn 'em around
Turn 'em around

Fallen Angels
They never gel enough
Fallen Angels hoo hoo
They got the addictions
Fallen Angels

Gibson - Buffy Sainte-Marie Interview


Buffy Sainte-Marie Interview talking about her favorite Gibson guitars the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and more.

Orville Gibson founded the company in 1902 as "The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd." in Kalamazoo, Michigan to make mandolin-family instruments. Gibson invented archtop guitars by constructing the same type of carved, arched tops used on violins.

By the 1930s, the company was also making flattop acoustic guitars, as well as one of the first commercially available hollow-body electric guitars, used and popularized by Charlie Christian. It was bought by Chicago Musical Instruments in 1944, which was then acquired by the E.C.L. conglomerate that changed its name to Norlin Inc. Many observers see this as the beginning of an era of mismanagement.


Music still can change the world



Sainte-Marie, in an interview from her home in Hawaii, where she has lived since the late 1960s, says the need for voices such as hers hasn't diminished.

"Greed is still around, war is still around," Sainte-Marie says.

But she says profiteering isn't only limited to masters of war. These days it also determines what records can say.

"I think it's just a conflict, not in the heart of artists — who very often do care — but in the heart of the marketplace and the people who distribute and are trying to be aware of the business side," she says. And the artists "are probably afraid to offend people."

Sainte-Marie says there still are singers who write such songs, citing Sting, Paul Simon, fellow Canadian Randy Bachman of BTO and "even Prince has written some songs of meaning."

"But I don't think that the marketplace supports them, and most people look at 'show biz' from that perspective — you know, careerism and success," she says."I think a lot of artists just get talked out of it because their record companies think it's not sellable."

And, Sainte-Marie says, "people who stick their necks out like me will sometimes get their heads chopped off."

Sainte-Marie, a Native American born on a Cree reservation in Canada, arose out of the same Greenwich Village folk scene that produced Dylan. She found early success as a songwriter, with Elvis Presley and Barbara Steisand recording her "Until It's Time for Us to Go." In 1964 she was Billboard magazine's Best New Artist.

By John J. Moser, OF THE MORNING CALL

Monday 30 May 2011

Buffy Sainte-Marie still fiery at 68 on new CD 'Running for the Drum'

In a recent interview, Buffy Sainte-Marie discussed newly released documents showing the federal government thwarted album shipments and encouraged radio stations not to play her music in the 1960s. Given that her messages then — anti-war, pro-rights for indigenous peoples — are still relevant, I figured her new CD, “Running for the Drum” (3 stars out of 4, Appleseed Records), might be worth seeking out. It is.

At 68, she’s as fiery as ever. The CD starts with three thumping dance tracks, followed by four slow numbers that ruin the momentum before blossoming into perfection on the back half. “I Bet My Heart on You” is fun piano-based rock ’n’ roll. The rockabilly Elvis tribute “Blue Sunday” needs to be covered by Chris Isaak. “Easy Like Snow Falling Down” is a sappy love ballad that works. She enhances “America, the Beautiful” with new lyrics adding an Indian perspective. It ends with a not-sappy love song, “Still This Love Goes On,” that just might be my favorite track in her deep catalog.

Also included is a DVD containing a good hour-long career retrospective. Featured are interview clips with Robbie Robertson, Bill Cosby and Joni Mitchell, whose career got its launch thanks to championing by Sainte-Marie.


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Sunday 29 May 2011

Grammy cuts hurt ethnic music: protestors

A coalition of musicians protested Thursday in Los Angeles over a change to Grammy categories that they say hurts ethnic music.
A decision by Grammy organizers to reduce award categories from 109 to 78 cuts the chances for Latin, world music, Cajun/Zydeco and Native American musicians to win awards, the group claims.
An online petition has been circulating to demand reinstatement of these categories.
A group of musicians played Latin songs and hoisted banners reading "Grammys Honor All Music" and "It's Not Just About Rap, Rock or Country" outside Thursday's board meeting of the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which administers the music prize.
Bobby Sanabria, a four-time Grammy nominee in the Latin jazz category and leader of the movement against the changes, said the group hoped to convince a member of the board to raise the issue again before the 2012 awards season, when the changes are slated to take effect.
"Hopefully during that time, someone will rise and be brave enough and do this," Sanabria said.
Alberta pow-wow group Northern Cree has been nominated for six Grammys and its frontman, Steve Wood, said he signed the petition against the changes.
So have most of the acts that share his label, Canyon Records, which represents First Nations artists across North America.
The elimination of the best Native American album category means native artists must compete in an expanded roots music category.
"You don't make this kind of music because you want awards," Wood said. "It's not going to hurt the music itself. Aboriginal music is the oldest music in the world and we're going to go on making it whether we get awards or not."
Still, Wood said he regrets the elimination of the category because the award was an opportunity for younger artists to get mainstream exposure.
Though he enjoyed past experiences at the Grammy gala, Wood says he always found the Grammy definition of native music to be artificial.
"The people who are playing this music and the people who are listening to it, they know what is the best music," he said.

Saskatchewan-born Buffy Sainte-Marie campaigned for aboriginal music categories at both Canada's Juno Awards (added in the 1980s) and at the Grammy Awards (added in the 1990s).
She has maintained there should be more awards at both ceremonies to recognize the diversity of aboriginal music.
Prominent musicians such as Paul Simon and Carlos Santana have also objected to the changes.
"I believe the Grammys have done a disservice to many talented musicians by combining previously distinct and separate types of music into a catch-all of blurry larger categories," Simon wrote in a letter to the academy.
"They deserve the separate Grammy acknowledgements that they've been afforded until this change eliminated them."
Santana and his musician wife, Cindy Blackman Santana, objected to the removal of Latin jazz and other ethnic categories. The couple said the academy is "doing a huge disservice to the brilliant musicians who keep the music vibrant for their fans — new and old."
When the academy announced the changes April 6, president Neil Portnow said the effect would be to make the Grammys more competitive. It was the first comprehensive cull of award categories in the more than 50-year history of the U.S. music awards.

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Saturday 28 May 2011

Micki Free, the Hard Rock Café, and the Future of Native American Music

The tribes of Native America were making music on the North American continent for centuries before the Europeans arrived. The drumming of pow wow music was considered the heartbeat of the nation, a deep pulsating sound often parodied in cowboy films. Like many marginalized cultures, Native Americans developed their own style of music, often incorporating the sounds of blues, European folk, classical music, and more recently, rock ‘n’ roll. Like African American music before the advent of phonograph records, the sounds of Native America were developed outside the attention of mainstream American culture, with notable exceptions. Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, R. Carlos Nakai, Grammy-winner Rita Coolidge, spoken-word artist John Trudell, and jazzman Jim Pepper have all broken through, but despite the initiation of a Native American Grammy category in 2000, most Native American artists—rockers, rappers, reggae singers—receive little attention from the music industry.



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Friday 27 May 2011

Wavy Gravy’s 75th Birthday (Concert)

Wavy Gravy’s 75th Birthday The political activist Wavy Gravy — famous for his role as master of ceremonies at the original Woodstock — is hosting a benefit for the Seva Foundation (a California-based nonprofit working toward “sustainable solutions to poverty and disease”) that doubles as a 75th birthday party. A slew of mostly folk-minded musicians will perform, including Jackson Browne, Crosby & Nash, Ani DiFranco, Dr. John, Steve Earle, Bruce Hornsby, Jorma Kaukonen, Steve Kimock, Allison Moorer, Buffy Sainte-Marie and more. At 8 p.m., Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway, at 74th Street , (800) 745-3000, beacontheatrenyc.com; $54.50 to $204.50. (Petrusich)

Wednesday 25 May 2011

Up Where We Belong

Special Thanks to Adamfulgence for the video on Youtube

From the album by the same name (2010), is one of the many classics that Buffy Sainte-Marie has given the world.
She has enjoyed a long career that has seen her rise to stardom on the folk circuit and try her hand at country, rock, soundtrack themes, acting, activism and children's television.
She was among the earliest, if not the first celebrity to challenge the idea that,"American history really began when Columbus set sail out of Europe".
She once said, "Here, the melting pot stands open - if you're willing to get bleached first".
Because of her political activism, she was blacklisted by the U.S. government in the 60s and 70s. So, for about 15 years, she focused on other issues - the most important of which was her "Cradleboard Project", an educational curriculum dedicated to preserving the culture of Native Americans for Indians and non-indians.
Sainte-Marie is a big proponent of music on the Internet. "People think we aren't making any money on the Internet but we weren't making any money when record companies were controlling everbody else".
She is a tireless political activist, continuing to represent the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide.
I share her belief that "language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to explore and experience our cultures and the perspectives that are embedded in them ".


Watch this video on youtube : http://youtu.be/HhjH05NMB5Q

Thursday 19 May 2011

Videos : Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011

Special thanks to youtube user mgwfall for uploading videos.

Buffy Sainte-Marie 2011-04-25 Universal Soldier



Buffy Sainte-Marie - Until It's Time For You To Go at Bluesfest 2011


Buffy Sainte-Marie on The Mojo Stage at Byron Bay's 2011 Bluesfest on Monday 25/04/11

Wednesday 18 May 2011

"The Heritage"

"The Heritage"
Original NBC Broadcast - 30 October 1968

Universal TV
Executive Producer Norman Macdonnell
Produced by Joel Rogosin
Written by Stephen Lord
Directed by Leo Penn

Starring:
(shown in the ride in)
John McIntire as Clay Grainger
Doug McClure as Trampas
David Hartman as David Sutton [not in this episode]
Sara Lane as Elizabeth Grainger
and James Drury as The Virginian

Guest star: Buffy Sainte-Marie [Nai'Be]


Season 7. Ep 7. A young Indian woman returns home after completing her education but isn't sure whether or not she wants to return to her old life.

The Heritage (1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzU-bMLJ_5k

The Heritage (2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_K8ysfUaGI

The Heritage (3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR7Qg78wBeI

The Heritage (4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq3trOUBkv0

The Heritage (5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eip5i0QmRcc

The Heritage (6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZG7_taAbTk

Sunday 15 May 2011

Concert Videos: Bronson Centre

Buffy Sainte-Marie
Bronson Centre
Ottawa, ON
May 7, 2011


Still this Love


My Heart is in Saskatchewan


Cripple Creek

Thursday 12 May 2011

Interview "The Bat Cave" Australia April 19 2011

Interview with Buffy Sainte-Marie.
'The Bat Cave' Yarra Valley FM 99.1 Mondays from 9 pm to midnight.
Melbourne, Australia April 19 2011.








Friday 6 May 2011

Honorary Doctor of Music

Brandon, MB — During the 100th Convocation at Brandon University, four outstanding Canadians will be acknowledged for their efforts and accomplishments, each receiving an honorary doctorate.

Brandon University is pleased to announce the conferral of a Doctor of Music (honoris causa) upon singer/songwriter, entertainer, activist and humanitarian Buffy Sainte-Marie.

A graduating college senior in 1962, Buffy Sainte-Marie hit the ground running as a soloist, touring North America’s colleges, reservations and concert halls, meeting both significant acclaim and misunderstanding from audiences and record companies who expected Pocahontas in fringes. Instead, they were both entertained and educated with their initial dose of Native American reality in the first person.

By age 24, Buffy Sainte-Marie had appeared all over Europe, Canada, Australia and Asia, receiving honours, medals and awards, which continue to this day. Her song “Until It’s Time for You to Go,” was recorded by Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Barbara Streisand and Cher, and her “Universal Soldier” became the anthem of the peace movement. For her very first album she was voted Billboard’s “Best New Artist.”

Buffy Sainte-Marie has appeared at countless grassroots concerts, AIM events and other activist benefits. Throughout her career, she has created 17 albums of her music, three of her own television specials, spent five years on Sesame Street, score movies, helped found Canada’s “Music of Aboriginal Canada” Juno Awards Category, raised a son, earned a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, taught Digital Music as adjunct professor at several colleges, and won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award Oscar for the song, “Up Where We Belong.”

Virtually inventing the role of Native American international activist pop star, Buffy Sainte-Marie’s concern for protecting indigenous intellectual property and her distaste for the exploitation of Native American artists and performers have kept her in the forefront of activism in the arts for 40 years. Presently, along with a busy touring schedule, she operates the Nihewan Foundation for Native American Education through which the Cradleboard Teaching Project serves children and teachers throughout North America.



Adding to an already expansive list of accolades and awards, Buffy Sainte-Marie’s latest release entitled “Running for the Drum” garnered a Juno Award for Aboriginal Album – her second – as well as an Aboriginal’s People Choice Music Award (APCMA) for Best Folk Album, Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards for Best Female Artist, Best Album, Best Single (“No No Keshagesh”) and Best Songwriter. As well, she became the 25th inductee into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and the first person to receive the APCMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

“This talented, eclectic, internationally renowned artist and activist honours Brandon University in accepting the degree, Doctor of Music (honoris causa) at this year’s Convocation,” said Deborah Poff, Brandon University’s President and Vice-Chancellor.

There will be four convocation ceremonies at Brandon University this spring. These will take place June 3 and 4 at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium.


For more information, contact:

Joanne F. Villeneuve
Communications
Brandon University
270 – 18th Street
Brandon, MB R7A 6A9
Tel. 204-727-9762
Source:
http://www.brandonu.ca

Sunday 1 May 2011

World Cafe Live

Buffy Sainte-Marie perform Downstairs at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia on May 16.

Monday, May 16, 2011 | Doors 7pm | Show 8pm | Downstairs Live

Advance Tickets:
Floor/Loge Standing Room: $23 ($18 ticket + $5 processing fee)
Floor/Loge Reserved Seating: $35 ($30 ticket + $5 processing fee)
Mezzanine (Reserved Seating): $45 ($30 + $15 premium service*/processing fee)

Day of Show Tickets:
Floor/Loge Standing Room: $27 ($22 ticket + $5 processing fee)
Floor/Loge Reserved Seating: $40 ($35 ticket + $5 processing fee)
Mezzanine (Reserved Seating): $50 ($35 + $15 premium service / processing fee)
Information: 215-222-1400 www.worldcafelive.com.