tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14489450179598216472024-03-05T11:32:06.076-08:00Buffy Sainte-MarieBuffy Sainte-Marie is an Academy Award-winning Canadian First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, educator and social activist.Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.comBlogger283125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-81558483538630952542015-08-06T15:11:00.003-07:002015-08-06T15:16:47.860-07:00Buffy Sainte-Marie says headdresses are 'painful' as fashion trend<br />
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Buffy Sainte-Marie has seen fashion-conscious fans show up to concerts wearing headdresses as a trendy statement -- and she's seen enough.<br />
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"When it comes to things like headdresses, there are some things that are actually, factually, personally, deeply cultural to our heritage," Sainte-Marie said in an interview in Toronto this week.<br />
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"To some guy who's got models in high heels, bikini bottoms, pasties and a big headdress, and everybody's drunk -- I want people to understand why that is painful or disgusting, why that is negative to us.
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"It'd be like if you really loved your grandmother or your mom and all of a sudden you're watching wrestling on TV and you see your mom's picture on some wrestler's crotch.<br />
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"It's inappropriate. It's not funny. It doesn't help."
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For the past few years, headdresses have become a popular -- and controversial -- fashion accessory. The trend seems to rear its ugly head with particular frequency at summer music festivals.
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Recently, festivals have fought back against the misguided trend. Osheaga, WayHome, Boots and Hearts, Heavy Montreal, Ile Soniq and the Edmonton Folk Festival have all issued bans in various forms on the fake indigenous headwear.
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Still, Sainte-Marie says the trend endures.<br />
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"We see it a lot in Europe, especially in Germany," said Sainte-Marie, who was recently shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize for her fiery album "Power in the Blood."
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"You see these people showing up and they have handmade, craftsy, fake headdress-like things, and they somehow think they're paying us a compliment.
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"But we let them know."<br />
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Still, Sainte-Marie -- the decorated owner of an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a Gemini and two Juno Awards -- stops short of calling for an outright ban.
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She just wants anyone donning a headdress to understand how it will make an aboriginal person feel.
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"I don't tell people what to do," she said.<br />
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"If you're still going to be a jerk, that's OK, but we want you to know that there are some things that are part of our cultural heritage that mean a lot to us.
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"I think it's mostly ignorance," she added. "I think most people who are doing that probably haven't given it much thought."<br />
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<b>Buffy Sainte-Marie Interview - Article originally published at <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/" target="_blank">ctvnews.ca</a></b><br />
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Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-34706171203128545072015-08-05T11:39:00.000-07:002015-08-05T11:42:02.227-07:00Buffy Sainte-Marie performs at Manitoulin Country Fest on 7 August - Canada<br />
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Hope to see you at Manitoulin Country Fest <br />
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Fri August 7, 2015 - 3:30 PM<br />
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<b>Gates Open 3:30pm, Set Time TBD</b>
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The 9th annual Manitoulin Country Fest coming up this weekend is shaping up to be one you won’t want to miss.
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This year’s lineup includes Leah Daniels, Beverley Mahood and Johnny Reid Thursday (August 6) night; Me and Mae, Lindsay Broughton, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tom Cochrane with Red Rider on Friday; Naomi Bristow, Genevieve Fisher, Tristan Horncastle, The Boom Chucka Boys, Autumn Hill and Gord Bamford on Saturday night; and Jack Connolly and the Canucky Blue Grass Boys on Sunday. <br />
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The Americana Music Association announces the selection of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Don Henley, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Ricky Skaggs and Los Lobos as Lifetime Achievement Award winners to be presented at its 14th Annual Honors & Awards ceremony, presented by Nissan, on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Each of these artists will perform and the show will be taped for air on PBS later in the year.<br />
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<b>Buffy Sainte-Marie will receive the Spirit of Americana Award</b>, Free Speech in Music co-presented with the First Amendment Center.
Since the 1960s, Buffy Sainte-Marie has been arguably the world’s most visible and vocal Native North American folk singer and social activist, but she’s been so much more, including a visual artist with a PhD in fine art, an educator and a philanthropist. She is a Cree Indian from Saskatchewan who was raised as an adopted daughter in Massachusetts. She became a prominent artist on the folk music circuit, appearing on Pete Seeger’s Rainbow Quest, The Johnny Cash Show and even Soul Train. Her songs wrestle honestly with politics, war and identity. At her most effective, she’s blended personal conscience with philosophical perspective, as with the remarkable song “Universal Soldier.” Sainte-Marie remains outspoken and energetic to this day; she’s back on tour with the new album Power In The Blood, her first studio project in seven years.
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Don Henley will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Trailblazer Award.
With a career that helped take the Eagles to the stratosphere and a string of scintillating, hit-producing solo albums, Don Henley is an icon of California-tinged country/rock and thus Americana music itself. Henley was raised in northeast Texas — a fact celebrated on his rootsy new 2015 collection Cass County. Arriving in Los Angeles after college, he joined Glenn Frey in Linda Ronstadt’s band, forging the core of The Eagles, which launched its epic career in 1971. Henley collaborated with Frey, JD Souther, Jackson Browne and others on hits such as “Desperado,” “Take It To The Limit,” and “Tequila Sunrise.” During the Eagles’ long hiatus in the 80s and 90s, he was the most successful solo artist to emerge from the band, and while his sound leaned harder on modern rock, he also continued to work with country artists including Ronnie Dunn, Trisha Yearwood and Alison Krauss. Henley took on environmental issues in the 1990s, founding the Walden Woods Project and the Caddo Lake Institute for ecological education and research. He’s been a prominent voice for artists’ rights in the recording industry as well.<br />
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The Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting goes to Gillian Welch & David Rawlings.
When the duo’s first album, Revival, appeared in 1996, it was a shock wave on the American music landscape. With songs like “Orphan Girl,” folk and bluegrass suddenly had exemplars and stars who were young and worldly, traditional and innovative, and who foreshadowed a new generation with interest in and respect for roots music and its many offshoots. Since then, their songwriting has graced seminal albums of the last two decades including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (“Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby”) and their own, Time (The Revelator). Their songs exemplify the breadth of Americana music and have been recorded by Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Solomon Burke, Jimmy Buffet, Z.Z. Top, Joan Baez, and The Punch Brothers. Their timeless tunes have also found their way to campfires and parking lot pickers everywhere. Now, six records and two decades into their career, the songwriting team of Welch & Rawlings has created a catalog that we will cherish and sing for generations.
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Ricky Skaggs will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award as an Instrumentalist.
The 1990s revival of bluegrass music depended on a number of indispensible things happening almost at once, and one of those was Ricky Skaggs assertively returning to his Kentucky roots. His wide ranging musicianship and deep feeling for mountain music had been on display from his appearance at age six on the Flatt & Scruggs TV show, and it carried on through career stages with Ralph Stanley and Keith Whitley and then to country radio, where he helped fuel a timely neo-traditionalist movement. Skaggs’ country records and his road bands were charged with top flight picking, including his own on mandolin, an instrument he studied at the feet of Bill Monroe himself. In the years since his era-shaping Bluegrass Rules album came out, he’s promoted the art of the bluegrass instrumental and collaborated with unexpected instrumentalists, such as Bruce Hornsby, with unexcelled evangelism and craft.
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In the category of Lifetime Achievement in Performance, the honor goes to Los Lobos.
Far more than “just another band from East L.A.” as an early album title promised, Los Lobos changed the look, sound and language of roots music, making it more inclusive and reflective of the American story. The founding four members, Cesar Rojas, David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez and Conrad Lozano, plus early addition Steve Berlin, have made music of consistent searching fusion since the mid-1970s. The band’s career was bolstered, but by no means defined, by their chart-topping 1987 cover of “La Bamba” for a movie soundtrack. By negotiating a space between traditional Mexican song, L.A. rock and classic soul, Los Lobos nurtured an identity that’s been adventuresome and unifying.
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“These artists have not only influenced the Americana community, but the musical landscape on the whole,” said Jed Hilly, Executive Director of the Americana Music Association, “they all have been an inspiration to our community and we are humbled they will honor us in song at the Ryman this fall.”<br />
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Folk. Country. Protest Anthems. Love songs. Pop hits. Academy Award Winner for her timeless hit “Up Where We Belong” Buffy Sainte-Marie brings her honest and raw musical canon to Brooklyn Bowl for a rare intimate London appearance.<br />
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Buffy Sainte-Marie’s bold new album, Power in the Blood, begins where it all started more than 50 years ago, with a contemporary version of “It’s My Way,” the title track of her 1964 debut. Its message, about the road to self-identity and the conviction to be oneself, still resonates with the Cree singer-songwriter, activist, educator, visual artist, and winner of countless awards (Oscar, Juno, and Golden Globe, among them).
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Perhaps you know Sainte-Marie from her 1960s protest anthems (“Universal Soldier”), open-hearted love songs (“Until It’s Time for You to Go”), incendiary powwow rock (“Starwalker”), or the juggernaut pop hit “Up Where We Belong,” which Sainte-Marie co-wrote and Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes sang for the soundtrack to An Officer and a Gentleman.<br />
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Brooklyn Bowl London
Peninsula Square
London, United Kingdom, SE10 0DX
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Power in the Blood also includes odes to the sanctity of life ("We Are Circling") and the splendor of Mother Nature ("Carry It On," a song so euphoric and empowering that it should be taught in schools and performed at the Olympics).<br />
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The singer-songwriter, a hitmaker in the '60s, talks about her long and complex songwriting legacy.
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At 74, Buffy Sainte-Marie still has the passion of her youth on her new album Power In The Blood. <br />
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Sainte-Marie also won a Grammy and an Oscar for her part in writing "Up Where We Belong," recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the 1982 film An Officer And A Gentleman.<br />
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Here, she performs a cross-section of her material and sits down with World Cafe to discuss her older songs, how she learned about being blacklisted, and what drives her to keep writing and advocating for underserved people now.<br />
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<br />Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-62407869568188764102015-06-19T12:07:00.001-07:002015-06-19T12:07:20.059-07:00Buffy Sainte-Marie Talks 2016 Election & 'Power In the Blood'<br />
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Interview with Buffy Sainte-Marie via Bilboard<br />
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<b>We're premiering the video for the title track to your new album [above]. It's a cover of the British rock/electronic band Alabama 3's "Power In the Blood." How did you stumble upon this song?
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Well, Alabama 3 did The Sopranos theme song, 'Woke Up This Morning," which is why I started watching the show -- I couldn't get it out of my head. So I've been a fan for a long time. Of course, there are a lot of songs called "Power in the Blood" -- it goes back to Gospel songs -- but when I heard theirs, I just loved the energy of it. I found out last year they were huge fans of mine, and I'm a huge fan of theirs, so I told them, "This will make a great peace song." They laughed, but I changed the words around [Their "I will be ready for war" becomes "I will say no, no, no to war"]. My version is a laundry list of contemporary issues that are challenging everyone right now. It's the age old racketeering problem that's been going on since before the Old Testament. The Roman Empire, the Inquisition -- the whole notion of rackets, where a few guys make a fortune and everyone else is exploited. And it's everything -- it's in the banks, it's in the tanks, in the military, the food supply, the college of business.... The business model at the moment is kind of fraud: Take as much as you can get and give back the least you can. It's a big, huge racket that everyone is seeing with new eyes now. "Power In the Blood" is a double entendre. On one end, it's the power of the feudal system to hurt and exploit us. The other power is the power in our brains to survive and evolve beyond this. To balance that with what we need -- common sense and respect for nature and each other.
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<b>Your video takes on so many topics, it's almost overwhelming. Are you hopeful about the future, or do you think we're basically just doomed at this point?
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Oh no, I don't think the planet is doomed at all. Rackets come full bloom now and again because the rest of us are lazy and don't do anything about it. But now that eyes and ears are open, there's a lot we can do. But I think that what we're showing in the video is on people's minds. I feel lucky as a songwriter -- and as a cast member of Sesame Street for five and a half years -- because I deal with the three-and-a-half-minute attention span. As a songwriter I get to encapsulate big ideas into few words. Of course, those songs never make me any money -- my big moneymakers have always been love songs. "Up Where We Belong," "Until It's Time For You to Go." But with these songs, you have to be quick, engaging and invite people to get to know more.
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<b>I wanted to ask about "Up Where We Belong" -- that won you an Oscar for its inclusion in An Officer and a Gentleman. Joe Cocker, who sang it along with Jennifer Warnes, recently passed. Did you know him well?
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Well, I had written that melody at home. Jack Nitzsche, who was scoring the movie, didn't have theme song yet. He asked me what I had, I played him the melody and that's how that happened. I met Joe, but we never worked together. But wasn't he wonderful? I was just doing arena tours with Morrissey in Wales, Ireland and England, and we mentioned Joe before doing the song.<br />
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<b>How was touring with Morrissey?</b><br />
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Very interesting. He has a fantastic band. I love his band. I think he was not feeling well -- we didn't see too much of each other. But their crew is impeccable, the band is fantastic -- and we had a lot of laughs with them. And of course Morrissey and I are both very much against the cruelty against factory animals. <br />
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<b>Your new album features electronics, which I have to say surprised me, being familiar mostly with your folk stuff.
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Well, you gotta back up before you were born. I was doing electronic music in the '60s. I made the first-ever totally electronic, quadraphonic vocal album in history. 1969, Illuminations. Folk music people held their nose and walked the other way -- and once I was blacklisted in the U.S., a lot of people didn't hear my electronic music. But about 15 years ago Wired magazine named that one of 100 albums that set the world on fire. But electronic music I got into very early. When the Macintosh came out in 1984, I had one of the pre-issue Macintoshes. So I've been doing it a very long time, but a lot of the U.S. audience wasn't hearing it. But Illuminations is old, get Running for the Drum, you might like that, it has a lot of electronics on it. But Illuminations was interesting -- especially my song "God Is Alive, Magic is Afoot."<br />
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<b>A lot of '60s musicians avoid the Internet like the plague. They even fear it. But not you.
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I was teaching digital music and art in the '80s in colleges. But that's not the kind of thing that's gonna make headlines. I had one of the very first websites in Hawaii in the '80s, but nobody cared. Almost no one was online in those days. I saw the value of computers as recording tools, whether you're making music or brushstrokes. No one was interested until they smelled money -- then it became a stampede. I was telling record companies about it in the '80s, but they just saw it as a typewriter. They would say, "Oh, my girl handles that." They were way behind, and consequently the record business has lost out.<br />
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<b>The Internet has also been key for a lot of social movements, like Occupy Wall Street.
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And Idle No More, which I mention on my album, has definitely been helped by social media.
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<b>That movement (Idle No More protests abuses against Indigenous peoples and treaty violations in Canada) seems to be gaining traction.</b><br />
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The thing is, it doesn't want traction -- it doesn't want to be around forever. It's a genuine grassroots movement based on a resistance that's been going on for hundreds of years. On days that are slow, people pay attention to it. When people are busy, not as much. But Idle No More has made a difference as part of the American Indian resistance movement.
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<b>This is something you know a lot about -- are there any books you can recommend for someone who might be curious to learn more?</b><br />
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There's a very interesting book called In the Spirit of Crazy Horse that ties contemporary stuff to the history of the Lakota in South Dakota. Charles Mann has a very interesting book out now called 1491. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee will break your heart, but you probably ought to read it. And a new one, which is quite scholarly, is called An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
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<b>You re-record "It's My Way" on your new album. That's a 51-year-old song -- do you still relate to it?
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Yeah, pretty much. The song is about my road or path, but really what I'm trying to do is encourage uniqueness in the listener. Uniqueness is the undersold quality that all of us are looking for, but no one says it. But we should be creating new things every day: New attitudes, new communities, new ways of looking at things. But there are always people who want you to work for them, to draw more coins into their organization. And it's silly.
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<b>There was a lot of optimism after the '60s about that way of thinking -- but then corporate mentality came back with a vengeance.
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I think it comes in waves. You think you're rid of certain things in the '60s, then everybody goes to sleep on it, buys a station wagon, has three kids, blab la bla. And you turn around and there it is again. There's always been racketeers -- and there probably always will be. But what makes a difference is whether we go along with them or not. They stepped back in the '60s when a whole lot of people said, "No, I'm not going to your war." That was a big deal.<br />
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<b>That's true. But there was a draft then.</b><br />
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That's true, there's not a draft now. But in the '60s we had the grassroots students movement. Now we have social media and the Internet. There's a lot of information being exchanged, a lot of people seeking education about stuff that was kept from us before.<br />
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<b>Do you have thoughts on Hillary in 2016?</b><br />
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Not yet, I don't. I haven't made a decision, I'm still watching. But I'm not much of a hawk myself. So I'm doing a lot of looking and listening. But no matter who gets elected, politics is a greasy pipe. I'm cynical about it in any country. Your responsibility as a citizen, or someone who wants a better world, doesn't stop the day after you vote. That's when you really have to get on the case -- because you've probably put some very wealthy person into a position of huge power. And somebody is going to lead them down the wrong creek unless you steer. And that's the basic citizenship that all of us hate, but it's gotta be done.<br />
Via <a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank"><b>:Billboard.com</b></a><br />
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Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-1310550423632523352015-06-16T16:23:00.002-07:002015-06-16T16:26:10.735-07:00Buffy Sainte-Marie Says the Internet Is the 21st Century Coffee House<br />
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Buffy Sainte-Marie, on tour to promote her newly released 18th record Power In the Blood, has been around a while. She's seen alternative ideas develop and fade, and she's seen activism ebb and flow. But when she surveys the scene today, she is optimistic.<br />
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Sainte-Marie reckons the internet might just be the millennial version of the bohemian coffee house, something she says was crucial in the development of the '60s counterculture. And, as a veteran of the hip scenes of the '60s — she penned some of the most popular anthems to emerge from the Greenwich Village and Yorkville folk communities — she knows of which she speaks.
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Those storied coffee houses "were very important," she stresses. Why? Because they were all about access and diversity. Not unlike the web.<br />
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"For the student movement of the 1960s," she tells Exclaim!, "the fact that there were coffee houses meant that young people could get together. I mean, young people couldn't get in anyplace where you needed a liquor license. And coffee anyways — it's talk, talk, talk, listen, listen, listen."
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The 74-year-old Canadian-born Cree artist has spent the better part of the past 50 years touring, playing music and working to make the world a better place. An Indigenous rights activist, a fervent environmentalist and a caustic critic of militarism, Sainte-Marie was blacklisted by two successive U.S. governments and was monitored by the FBI for much of her adult life. So, when she talk, talk, talks about stuff, we should probably listen, listen, listen.
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Back in the old coffee house scenes, she recalls, "it wasn't only onstage with performers and audiences [connecting with each other] but it was also in the streets. People were listening to each other. People were speaking up. It was hip to have a point of view. (I was almost going to say opinion, but it was really a point of view.) And I think it had a lot to do with coffee being around! I do! It really was attractive to high school students, college students, and people on the street… and coffee houses weren't 'le show-biz' where you had to dress it up."
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It was in these democratic spaces, Sainte-Marie emphasizes, where the music, the ideas, and the "points of view" were exchanged. "It was such a great time. But for a long time it was really that 'the suits' got back in charge and we wondered 'Where did it all go?"<br />
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"But," she reminds us, "now we have the internet."<br />
<b> Via <a href="http://exclaim.ca/" target="_blank">Exclaim.Ca</a></b><br />
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Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-43341316053239649932015-03-31T14:03:00.001-07:002015-03-31T14:03:28.737-07:00New Album : Power in the Blood - Tour Dates<br />
Exciting news, friends! Buffy is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of her brand new album Power in the Blood, due in stores on May 12, 2015 (May 18 in the UK).
But you don’t have to wait until then to grab your copy, Power in the Blood is now available for pre-order!
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03/18 Cardiff, UK - Motorpoint Arena *
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03/20 Leeds, UK - First Direct Arena *
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03/21 Glasgow, UK - The SSE Hydro *
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03/24 Belfast, UK - Odyssey Arena *
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03/26 London, UK - The Tabernacle
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03/27 Birmingham, UK - Barclaycard Arena <br />
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04/26 Sidney, BC - Mary Winspear Centre
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04/29 Campbell River, BC - The Tidemark Theatre
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04/30 North Vancouver, BC - Capilano University Centre for the Performing Arts Theatre<br />
05/01 North Vancouver, BC - Capilano University Centre for the Performing Arts Theatre
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05/06 London, ON - Aeolian Hall<br />
05/07 Toronto, ON Koerner Hall
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05/09 Burnstown, ON - Neat Coffee Shop
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05/15 Lincoln, NE - University of Nebraska Lincoln<br />
05/17 Chicago, IL - City Winery
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05/18 Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live
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05/19 Washington, DC - The Hamilton<br />
05/20 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom<br />
07/16 Grass Valley, CA - California Worldfest<br />
08/07 Little Current, ON - Manitoulin Country Fest
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Visit <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/album/power-in-the-blood/id976728947" target="_blank">iTunes here</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Power-Blood-Buffy-Sainte-Marie/dp/B00UKNOKZ8" target="_blank">Amazon here</a> to get your copy today.
UK pre-order available through Amazon UK here.<br />
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<br />Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-84150919750119196032015-03-24T15:12:00.000-07:002015-03-24T15:12:17.214-07:00Buffy Sainte-Marie Returns with 'Power in the Blood'<br />
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Arrival of Power in the Blood. This album will drop on May 12 through True North Records. <br />
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Sainte-Marie recorded the album in Toronto with three producers: Michael Phillip Wojewoda (Barenaked Ladies, Rheostatics), Jon Levine (Nelly Furtado, K'naan, Serena Ryder) and Chris Birkett (Sinéad O'Connor, Talking Heads).
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Most of the songs here are brand new, but opening cut "It's My Way" is a re-recording of the title track from her 1964 debut album. "Power in the Blood" is a collaboration with electronic group Alabama 3.
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According to a press release, "Power in the Blood is a reminder that, five decades on, Sainte-Marie is a voice as vital and significant as ever. Like so much of Sainte-Marie's work, it's universal."
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The songs reportedly touch on subjects like "the sanctity of life, the splendour of Mother Nature and scathing political and social commentary." The tracklist is below and the album cover is above. Also below, see Sainte-Marie's tour schedule, which includes UK dates with Morrissey plus a handful of Canadian dates.<br />
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The new version of "It's My Way" can be streamed at the bottom of this page, along with the old version.<br />
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<b>Power in the Blood:</b><br />
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1. It's My Way
2. Power in the Blood
3. We Are Circling
4. Not the Lovin' Kind
5. Love Charms (Mojo Bijoux)
6. Ke Sakihitin Awasis
7. Farm In the Middle of Nowhere
8. Generation
9. Sing Our Own Song
10. Orion
11. The Uranium War
12. Carry It On
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<b>Tour dates:</b><br />
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03/18 Cardiff, UK - Motorpoint Arena *<br />
03/20 Leeds, UK - First Direct Arena *<br />
03/21 Glasgow, UK - The SSE Hydro *<br />
03/24 Belfast, UK - Odyssey Arena *<br />
03/26 London, UK - The Tabernacle<br />
03/27 Birmingham, UK - Barclaycard Arena *<br />
04/26 Sidney, BC - Mary Winspear Centre<br />
04/29 Campbell River, BC - The Tidemark Theatre<br />
04/30 North Vancouver, BC - Capilano University Centre for the Performing Arts Theatre<br />
05/01 North Vancouver, BC - Capilano University Centre for the Performing Arts Theatre<br />
05/06 London, ON - Aeolian Hall<br />
05/07 Toronto, ON Koerner Hall<br />
05/09 Burnstown, ON - Neat Coffee Shop<br />
05/15 Lincoln, NE - University of Nebraska Lincoln<br />
05/17 Chicago, IL - City Winery<br />
05/18 Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live<br />
05/19 Washington, DC - The Hamilton<br />
05/20 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom<br />
07/16 Grass Valley, CA - California Worldfest<br />
08/07 Little Current, ON - Manitoulin Country Fest<br />
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SOURCE ARTICLE Via <a href="http://exclaim.ca/" target="_blank">http://exclaim.ca/</a>http://exclaim.ca/Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-20571438724084990222015-02-11T13:51:00.001-08:002015-02-11T13:51:07.590-08:00Buffy Sainte-Marie, coming to Brisbane in March.<br />
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On the back of her eighteenth studio album, legendary singer songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie joined Clare Blake ahead of her upcoming Australian tour.<br />
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"I have been in Los Angeles all week breaking in my new band. We did a gig last night and Jackson Browne showed up and Mike Campbell from Tom Petty's band was there and Morrissey was there.<br />
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It was our first show together and our rehearsal to come to Australia"
Buffy began writing songs and performing in the early 1960's and immediately became a role model for the Native American community.<br />
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"I was very fortunate that I started in the 1960s when there was a very narrow window open in show-business when you could really sing songs of meaning and when people were listening to music from all over the world"<br />
Via <a href="http://www.4bc.com.au/" target="_blank">4bc</a><br />
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Buffy Sainte-Marie will perform in Brisbane on Wednesday 11th march at The Tivoli theatre.<br />
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<b>Charlie White Theatre Wrote:</b><br />
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Academy Award winner Buffy Sainte-Marie’s audacious attitude to life on and off the stage has inspired people around the world for over four decades.
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Not one to rest on her accomplishments, Buffy Sainte-Marie has never stopped channelling her infinite musical and artistic creativity.
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As one of the most spellbinding artists of our time, Buffy Sainte-Marie gracefully combines a high energy stage presence with cerebral songs that tell powerful stories. This rare and primal blend is a welcome joy to festivals and concert halls around the world.
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"Buffy is one of the most influential and most charismatic performers off all time. Her music has stood the test of time and she continues to write her music that sings to our very souls." - Ticketmaster Review
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Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-60453460551693770982014-11-21T14:12:00.001-08:002014-11-21T14:12:09.658-08:00Buffy Sainte-Marie reflects on time with Sesame Street<br />
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Sesame Street celebrates 45th anniversary<br />
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<b>Article by Karin Yeske for <a href="http://ckom.com/" target="_blank">http://ckom.com </a></b><br />
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An internationally-acclaimed musician born on the Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan is reflecting on her time with Sesame Street as the show celebrates its 45th season.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie received a call from Sesame Street in 1975 after writing "Universal Soldier" during the peace movement of the sixties. Sainte-Marie was asked to recite the alphabet and count numbers like other celebrities such as Stevie Wonder had previously done on the show.
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“I wasn’t interested because I was travelling so much internationally. I asked them before we hung up whether they had ever done any Native American programming and they said ‘no’ and a couple hours later they called me back,” Sainte-Marie recalled in a phone interview from her home in Hawaii.
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Sainte-Marie was a regular on the show from 1976-1981, touching on topics such as sibling rivalry, breastfeeding, music, and First Nations culture. During her stint on the show, she said Sesame Street was always open to her ideas but also presented her with topics she wanted to cover.
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“They never stereotyped me. They never treated me as just a token decoration on the show. We did real programming,” she said, adding breastfeeding her son Cody was her idea.
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“At the time, breastfeeding was totally overwhelmed by the formula companies so that young mothers recovering from childbirth, they would have a big basket of formula. The doctors didn’t understand how to teach them how to breastfeed,” she said.
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At the time, Sesame Street was shown three times a day in 73 countries of the world, Sainte-Marie said. Today, Sesame Street has reached over 82 million kids.
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“I think everyone can appreciate the shows that they came out with because they are truly child centred.”<br />
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Since appearing on Sesame Street, Sainte-Marie went on to receive an Academy Award in 1982 for her song “Up Where We Belong” from the movie An Officer and a Gentleman. “Until It’s Time for You to Go” has been recorded by music legends Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and Cher.
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Education and play has always been important to Sainte-Marie, who holds a teaching degree and a Ph.D in Fine Arts. When she was just three years old, she remembers playing a piano for the first time.
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“I taught myself to play because it was so much fun,” she said, adding a number of years ago she found out she was dyslexic in music. Sainte-Marie cannot read sheet music but said she has a helicopter view of the music and has a feeling about the song, start to end, that is not linear.
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Sainte-Marie is proud to support the Idle No More movement, which started at the grassroots level in Saskatchewan. Known for being an outspoken performer about Native issues and peace but unbeknown to her at the time, Sainte-Marie’s music was actually downplayed in the U.S. during the Lyndon Johnson era. <br />
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“The problem is not always the same but everybody should be keeping an eye on how things can be better in their own communities and not being afraid to come together spontaneously,” she said of the Idle No More movement.
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Sainte-Marie is currently putting a new band together to start rehearsing in January before her new album comes out in May.
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“Music is really important to me. Some of it is important to my practical life and some of it is important to my heart. The heart part goes on day and night, just like dreams and has from the time I was three,” she said.<br />
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Sainte-Marie said message of inspiration is encapsulated in a song she wrote called Jeremiah.
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“Some will tell you what you really want ain’t on the menu. Don’t believe them. Cook it up yourself and then prepare to serve them,” she said.<br />
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<br />Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-28192976869455491212014-11-15T13:24:00.002-08:002014-11-15T13:24:45.630-08:00Three Questions About Human Rights with Buffy Sainte-Marie<br />
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In anticipation of her upcoming performance at the opening ceremonies for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on September 20th, Buffy offers inspiring answers to three questions about human rights.
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<b>What do you think the role of music is in human rights?</b><br />
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To inform and inspire both locally and globally. A 3-minute song can be more effective than a 400-page textbook in informing people beyond the party lines. Long ago, troubadours used to spread the news, which sometimes was dangerously opposite to what current authorities wanted people to know. Artists can bring alternative perspectives about how people treat each other, both historically and now.<br />
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<b>How has activism and the pursuit of Human Rights shaped your music?</b><br />
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I've seen how all three topics - activism, human rights and music - get stymied by greed and the war racket. Discussions about talent, fairness and racism are often just the new clothing that the old emperors wear as they loot the economy and turn the world to pocket change. Being involved in philanthropy and human rights globally over many years, I've continually learned how controlled we are in systems wherein a powerful few pretty much call the shots for civilians, and control the military. Payola and greed try to be king; gatekeepers and lawyers control the music, perfume, media and fashion industries; and the richest countries in the world have made the worst wars in history. This is not the time to quit on each other.
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Gandhi, the writer John Horgan who wrote The End of War, the poet Rumi, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Harry Belafonte, Naomi Wolf, Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama… and people in my family who are not famous.<br />
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<br />Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-80271039632331603642014-09-03T16:07:00.003-07:002014-09-03T16:07:59.297-07:00"Welcome Welcome Emigrante" from album Many a Mile (Video - Lyrics)<br />
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Dedicated to the emigrants of our world who ever they are and which ever home they choose<br />
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Oh welcome, welcome emigrante,<br />
to my country, welcome home.<br />
Welcome, welcome emigrante,<br />
to the country that I love.<br />
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I am proud, I am proud,<br />
I am proud of my forefathers and I say<br />
they built this country.<br />
And they came from far away<br />
to a land they didn’t know,<br />
the same way you did, my friend.<br />
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So welcome, welcome emigrante,<br />
to my country, welcome home.<br />
Welcome, welcome emigrante,<br />
to the country that I love.<br />
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I am proud, I am proud,<br />
I am proud of my forefathers and I say<br />
about their courage.<br />
For they spoke a foreign language<br />
and they laboured with theirs hands,<br />
the same way you did, my friend.<br />
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So welcome, welcome emigrante,<br />
to my country, welcome home.<br />
Welcome, welcome emigrante,<br />
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to the country that I love.
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Singer and cultural icon Buffy Sainte-Marie drops wisdom in our second edition of classic posters from Akwesasne Notes, a hugely influential Mohawk newspaper that helped unite Natives all over Turtle Island in the late 60s and early '70s. This time around, the image is a photograph of a Native grandmother, accompanied by the quote from Sainte-Marie: "Why should an Indian woman have to bleach her hair to be accepted?" The text at the bottom of the poster reads, "Photograph courtesy of Alberta Provincial Archives. Our Grandmother shown here is Betty Hunter, of the Stoney Nation of Southern Alberta, taken about 1900."
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The quote may have been taken from a profile of Sainte-Marie that ran in the St. Petersburg Times on Monday, October 19, 1970 -- and slightly altered. In the St. Petersburg Times article, Sainte-Marie asked, "Why shouldn't an Indian girl be a model or a designer or a painter?" She went on to say, "We're trying to open up the glamor jobs. ... Why should an Indian girl have to bleach her hair to be accepted?"
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Sainte-Marie also commented on the harmful effects of the education system on Native youth. "What kid wants to be told in school that his grandfather was a savage?" she asked. "There's very little accuracy in the texts that are used about Indians, and about the way American settlers dealt with them." Her ultimate assessment of the state of Native people was that "Right now, Indians can't survive in America physically, mentally, emotionally, or artistcally."<br />
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<br />Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-57228951851049465212014-07-25T10:34:00.000-07:002014-07-25T10:34:02.972-07:00Canadian Museum for Human Rights announces opening ceremony lineup<br />
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<b>Bruce Cockburn, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ashley MacIsaac, A Tribe Called Red among performing acts
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On top of announcing a partnership with Rogers to broadcast the proceedings in their entirety live and online, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) released its list of performers for the opening weekend ceremonies Sept. 19 and 20.<br />
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"The opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is truly a national event," said CMHR President and CEO Stuart Murray in a press release. "We welcome the opportunity to work with Rogers in bringing our opening weekend celebrations to all Canadians, no matter where they are."<br />
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The opening weekend “Rights Fest” activities will include the free outdoor Canadian Concert for Human Rights, with performances from well-known Canadian musical acts like Bruce Cockburn, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ashley MacIsaac, Marie-Pierre Arthur and A Tribe Called Red.<br />
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The Sept. 19 opening ceremonies will last 90-minutes and start at 10:30 a.m., concluding with the two-hour concert on Sept. 20, which starts at 7:00 p.m.<br />
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The ceremony will be broadcast live on APTN and Rogers' City and OMNI television networks.<br />
Source <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/" target="_blank">CBC News</a><br />
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Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-1544196637048138612014-07-20T07:54:00.002-07:002014-07-20T07:54:44.888-07:00CBC Aboriginal’s top 10 road trip songs<br />
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<b>Article By Kim Wheeler, CBC News </b><br />
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Summer is in full swing and as you head out for a road trip across the country, just down the highway to the lake or home to your community’s powwow, what will be playing on your car stereo?<br />
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Picking the perfect mix of music for the entire family can be tricky. Luckily, the indigenous music scene in Canada is an eclectic mix of musical genres, from hip-hop to country to blues to rock.<br />
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Just remember: if you don’t like one of the songs, chances are you’ll love the next one. So roll down the windows, turn up the volume and check out CBC Aboriginal’s top 10 road trip songs:
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<b>10. Spare Change — </b>Plex: This works for both the kids and the parental units. Some rap with a sample of Chicago’s Saturday in the Park.<br />
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<b>9. Stay —</b> Digging Roots: Picture the setting sun, the kids are falling asleep in the back seat, and you are just sailing along that ribbon of asphalt without a care in the world.
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<b>8. Sisters — </b>A Tribe Called Red featuring Northern Voice: Can’t make it to an ATCR show this summer? Bring their music with you, but be prepared to stop the car and dance at the side of the road.
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<b>7. Come and Get Your Love —</b> Redbone: This song from the '70s stands up to the test of time. Turn this one up and watch passengers in other cars ask you which station you are listening to. True story.
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<b>6. Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo — </b>Buffy Sainte-Marie: One does not simply have a music playlist without a Buffy song on it. This industry leader is celebrating 50 years in the business and is clearly the matriarch of indigenous music.
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<b>5. Is Sorry Enough? —</b> Murray Porter: This is one of those songs that comes with a message and can generate a conversation that will last for miles (or kilometres). Porter sings about the government's apology for residential schools.<br />
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<b>4. All That I Know — </b>Winnipeg’s Most: Even though the band has broken up and reincarnated itself as Winnipeg Boyz, it has yet to make a song as catchy as this one.<br />
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<b>3. Sundancer — </b>Eagle and Hawk: There a few incarnations of this song, but the one with lead vocals by the band’s bassist, Spatch, is the best version. It's also rumoured to be the No. 1 most requested song on Manitoba's NCI-FM (Native Communications Inc.)<br />
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<b>2. Damned If You Do — </b>Derek Miller with Willie Nelson: Need something more than one of our community’s best musicians singing with a country music legend?<br />
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<b>1. NDN Kar — </b>Various artists. Keith Secola wrote this iconic tune that has been covered by several artists, but it was really Shawn Bernard who breathed new life into this classic. Whichever version you play, you’ll probably play it at least twice before switching to a new tune. <br />
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<br />Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-2822432525588506112014-06-27T14:05:00.005-07:002014-06-27T14:05:59.915-07:00 Buffy Sainte-Marie stays the course<br />
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<b>Article originally published at windsorstar.com by Ted Shaw</b><br />
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Forever outside the mainstream, Buffy Sainte-Marie proudly declares her independence from the business of popular music.<br />
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“I’m not in the business, never have been,” said the 73-year-old Sainte-Marie, who is in the studio for yet another new album in Toronto. (She performs Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at Carrousel By The River at Windsor’s Riverfront Festival Plaza. Tickets at the gate are $5.)<br />
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“Being in the business is another whole thing I’ve managed to avoid so far. I’m a songwriter and a singer.”
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As a singer, her keening vibrato has been an acquired taste since she broke on the folk scene in the early-1960s.
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As a songwriter, she boasts hundreds of cover versions of songs like Universal Soldier, Up Where We Belong and Until It’s Time for You to Go.<br />
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“I had to provide some information about song covers (for the website) and I lost count,” she said. The site, buffysainte-marie.com, lists dozens of prominent artists who have recorded her songs.
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“I used to think Codine had only two or three covers (namely The Charlatans, Janis Joplin and Gram Parsons), but I was up to 60-something and gave up and handed it off to somebody else to research.”<br />
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Songwriting, said Sainte-Marie, is her raison d’etre.<br />
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“It has always been the most exciting experience when you write something and you surprise yourself. Where did that come from?”<br />
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Born to Cree parents in Saskatchewan in 1941, Sainte-Marie was adopted by a white family and raised in Massachusetts. Her earliest musical influences were rockabilly and the white rockers of the American Deep South, Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins.<br />
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They fused her rocking sensibilities with a softer focus acoustic music, and it’s a sound that has defined most of her music from the beginning.
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“Businessmen and the lawyers who control the music industry will tell you this or that won’t work,” she said. “But the beauty of having a long career like mine is that you realize great music stays great, and it’s true of life itself. No matter what new thing comes along.”
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The ’60s rebel is still speaking out. “As you grow,” she said, “you hang onto what was always great in your art and it just enhances whatever is coming up next. I have an incredible library of songs I still love and whatever does come next doesn’t make yesterday’s choices any less.”<br />
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Early in her career, Sainte-Marie took a startling left turn with her music by recording an all-electronic album, Illuminations, in 1969. Three or four years earlier, fellow former folkie Bob Dylan alienated the acoustic audience by recording a series of albums with electric instruments.
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But Sainte-Marie took the process even further. Illuminations was unlike anything she had done before, a strange and experimental amalgam of synthesized singing and instrumentals. It fell flat commercially, but as the years went on, it proved highly influential in progressive rock circles. When the album was reissued in 2000, Wire Magazine named it among the 100 Albums that Set the World on Fire While No-One was Listening.
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Sainte-Marie remembers the reactions of critics and even her longstanding fans. ” Why is this person who we’ve been told is a folksinger doing this kind of thing? The folk community jumped all over me, but art students and the electronic music communities understood it.”
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It led her to writing movie scores and investigating digital art. Her computer-generated art is widely admired and some of it hangs in Calgary’s Glenbow Museum.
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“I approach music and digital art, and life, not as a manual where you read how to do things, but like a kid at play. I’m an overgrown kindergarten kid.”<br />
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Sainte-Marie faded from active recording after the late-1970s, but Up Where We Belong, which won an Academy Award in 1982, provided her with a re-entry into popular music. A comeback album in 1992, titled Coincidence and Likely Stories, however, was again followed by a lengthy hiatus until 2008′s critically praised Running for the Drum.
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“I had to put a band together to take the album out on tour,” she said. “We auditioned 27 musicians and settled on three (First Nations) guys from Manitoba.”<br />
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It was supposed to be a short-term arrangement, but the band is still with her and on the road throughout this summer, touring in support of a just-released documentary DVD, Buffy Sainte-Marie, A Multimedia Life.
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The band consists of Jesse Green, a Lakota/Ojibway from Winnipeg on guitar; Leroy Constant, a Manitoba Cree on bass; and Michel Bruyere, a Manitoba Ojibway on drums.<br />
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The recording of her new album has her commuting from Hawaii, where she has lived since the 1960s, to Toronto and Europe. But she’s finding the energy of a woman much younger in the process.<br />
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“I feel better than when I was 22,” she said. “And I listen to all the music from then to now. I have a voracious appetite for great music.”<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/CQfW8UPih-o?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-56662493469258103792014-06-02T14:53:00.002-07:002014-06-02T14:53:53.955-07:00Detoxifying Aboriginal Self-perception and Outward Identity with Buffy Sainte-Marie (Video)<br />
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<b>Recorded Oct. 10, 2013 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix.
Introduction by Simon Ortiz</b><br />
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Academy-Award winning musician and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie speaks at the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie shares stories from her musical career, grassroots activism, Sesame Street in the 1970's, and being censored by Lyndon Johnson for her stance against the Vietnam War. She talks about being in opposition with political administrations and touches on the challenges and importance of education.
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Sainte-Marie, a Canadian native, describes herself as a "natural musician," whose love for music and pictures began at the age of three. Over the years she has crossed many genres, including rock, pop, powwow and folk. Heavy industry hitters such as Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Janis Joplin and Chet Atkins have covered her songs.
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This article was originally published windsorstar.com by Ted Shaw<br />
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Buffy Sainte-Marie and Jose Feliciano will share headline status this year at the annual Carrousel by the River concerts in June.
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Feliciano headlines the Saturday, June 14, show at Riverfront Festival Plaza, while Sainte-Marie tops the Sunday bill on June 15.
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The opening Friday night show will be anchored by Windsor’s own Alexander Zonjic, accompanied by Detroit singer Thornetta Davis and the Motor City Horns.
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Carrousel by the River kicks off the 39th annual Carrousel of the Nations ethnic festival, taking place at various locations across Windsor the weekends of June 20-22 and 27-29.
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General admission tickets for all events are $5, although reserved seating is available for Feliciano for $20. Reserved tickets can be purchased at carrouselofnations.ca.
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The Friday and Saturday headliners go on stage at 10 p.m., while Sunday’s headliner hits the stage at 6:30 p.m.
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There are several local and regional performers on the weekend lineups.
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The Friday bill starts at 7 p.m. and features Six Degrees and Huladog.
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Saturday gets going at 6:30 p.m. with Tumbao Bravo, followed by The Michele Ramo World Music Ensemble, featuring Heidi Harper.
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Crissi Cochrane and the Rose City Soul Brothers open Sunday’s set at 3:30 p.m., followed by Beatriz Pichi Malen.<br />
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For more details, call 519-255-1127.<br />
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Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-15111902054349332592014-05-08T13:26:00.001-07:002014-05-08T13:26:23.642-07:00Buffy Sainte-Marie to perform June 20 in Halifax<br />
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<b>Legendary performer Buffy Sainte-Marie returns to Halifax’s Schooner Showroom on June 20.</b><br />
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The Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter-musician and Native American activist performed in Halifax in June 2010 for Grand Chief Membertou 400 celebration on the Halifax Commons.
Sainte-Marie, born in Qu’Appelle Valley, Sask., released her first album It’s My Way! in 1964.<br />
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The latest of her nearly 20 albums is 2010’s The Pathfinder — Buried Treasures. She also spent five years on Sesame Street, earned a PhD in fine arts, taught digital music as an adjunct professor at several colleges and won an Oscar for Up Where We Belong.
Among her songs are Universal Soldier, Codeine, No No Keshagesh, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.<br />
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Tickets for Sainte-Marie’s show are $35 and are on sale Friday at Ticket Atlantic, 451-1221, at participating Atlantic Superstores and Casino Nova Scotia and online at www.ticketatlantic.com.<br />
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The show is limited to those 19 and over.<br />
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June 20 and 21 are Aboriginal Day Live Celebrations in Halifax, with free concerts in Casino Nova Scotia’s Harbourfront Lounge on June 20 and on the waterfront, beginning at noon on June 21.<br />
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The celebrations conclude with a free concert on the waterfront at 8 p.m., co-hosted by Candy Palmater and Don Kelly, and featuring Juno Award-winning A Tribe Called Red, fiddler Ashley MacIsaac and up-and-coming Cape Breton band Black & Grey, among others.<br />
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Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-89388929754295923162014-03-26T12:10:00.002-07:002014-03-26T12:10:55.757-07:00Sainte-Marie to play Summerfolk <br />
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<b>Article originally published at http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com</b><br />
<b>Canadian music legend Buffy Sainte-Marie will headline this year's Summerfolk.</b><br />
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Artistic director James Keelaghan has been rolling out the lineup of more than 40 acts throughout the month of March, capped by the announcement Tuesday that Sainte-Marie would be headlining the 39th annual Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival which runs August 15 to 17 at Kelso Beach Park.
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"When you think of Buffy's career there are the hits she had herself and then the hits she has written for other people," said Keelaghan. "She is just an incredibly focused and generous performer."
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Sainte-Marie is best known for her 1970s hits such as I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again, Mister Can't You See and He's An Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo. She is well-known for her regular appearances on Sesame Street in the 1970s and early 1980s. Sainte-Marie is also an accomplished songwriter. The song Up Where We Belong, which Saint-Marie co-wrote, won an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award.
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"I think having somebody with the stature of Buffy Sainte-Marie as the anchor of this, I think for the performers backstage, you know you are some place solid when there is a 73-year-old living legend on that stage and you are going to be on that stage at some point yourself," said Keelaghan.<br />
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Sainte-Marie was born on the Piapot Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan and raised in Massachusetts by adoptive parents. Much of her music, both as a songwriter and musician, has focused on the First Nations peoples of North America. She has also taken on the subjects of peace, war and religion in her music and has been involved in social activism throughout her career.
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Keelaghan said he had tried to bring Sainte-Marie to Summerfolk last year, but was unable to get her booked for the festival.
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"Everything sort of lined up this year that she was going to be in the area and was quite happy to do it," said Keelaghan.
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In 2009, Sainte-Marie released her 18th album, Running for the Drum, which earned her her third Juno Award. Today, Sainte-Marie plays with a three-member band, including Jesse Green on guitar, Michel Bruyere on drums and Leroy Constant on bass.
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"She has an amazing touring schedule and is just finishing a new album," said Keelaghan. "She is working with this trio of aboriginal musicians out of Winnipeg. They are the most rock solid band you have ever seen in your life."
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Among the other popular acts at Summerfolk this year will be Toronto singer-songwriter Danny Michel, Yves Lambert, who for 25 years was the front-runner for Quebec band La Bottine Souriante, local favourites and Maple Blues Award nominees, the 24th Street Wailers and popular pop and folk musician Valdy.
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"This is what our audience likes. Our audience likes a wide mix of people," said Keelaghan. "They like to have a few familiar faces to make sure everything is fine, but other than that they like to be surprised. There are some groups here that are just going to surprise the hell out of people."
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One of those surprises is Laura Cortese and The Dance Cards out of the Boston area.
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"It is really rare to see a singer-songwriter whose instrument is the voilin," said Keelaghan. "It is this beautiful string trio with violin, viola and cello and brilliant songwriting that goes over top of it."
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Also on the tap this year are Oh Susanna, The Walkervilles, Alysha Brilla, Bruce Molsky, Comas, Jez Lowe, Quique Escamilla, Rachelle Van Zanten and The Fugitives.
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Now in his third year as artistic director, Keelaghan said there is fair amount of juggling to bring all the acts together for the event, with some surprising twists and turns along the way.
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"The whole thing starts in October and we have like 400 submissions for the festival," said Keelaghan. "There is so much great music out there I just wish we had 365 days to program it."
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All of the acts taking part in this year's event are being added to summerfolk.org with about a dozen more to be included on the site this week.
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The lineup will be finalized with the addition of four or five acts from the finals of the Youth Discovery event to be held at the Harmony Centre in Owen Sound on Sunday at 1 p.m.
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"Basically the Youth Discovery completes the roster," said Keelaghan. "If people want to know what the entire roster is going to look like they are going to have to be there for the Youth Discovery on Sunday."
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March 31 marks the end of the early bird weekend pass price of $92. From April 1 to June 30 a weekend pass will cost $102. After June 30, regular prices kick in, which are $112 for an adult, $99 for seniors and students, $72 for youths age 13 to 18, $14 for children age 5-12 and free for children four and under. Individual day passes are also available with prices at summerfolk.org.(Article <a href="http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/" target="_blank"><b>Source</b></a>)<br />
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<br />Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-8229858710827863412014-03-05T09:58:00.000-08:002014-03-05T09:58:23.224-08:00Protesting and playing: For Buffy Sainte- Marie, there's room for both focus and fun<br />
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<b>Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press</b><br />
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For more than four decades, legendary Canadian-American Cree singer/songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie has been blazing trails.
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When she first hit the road in the 1960s as a solo performer, touring North America's colleges, reservations and concert halls, she flipped audiences and record companies' expectations -- "Pocahontas in fringes" -- on their ears.
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The multi-hyphenate performer -- she's a musician, composer, visual artist, educator and activist -- went on to pen well-covered classics such as Until It's Time For You To Go, Co'dine and Universal Soldier. She's worked tirelessly to put indigenous issues at the fore, through both her music and her activism. She has fistfuls of degrees from universities across Canada. She has 17 albums to her credit. She's an electronic music pioneer -- one of the first to use computers for home recording. She won an Oscar for the An Officer and a Gentleman theme Up Where We Belong. And, in a badass act of feminism, she had middle America clutching its pearls by breastfeeding her son on an episode of Sesame Street in the 1970s. (That's just a slight highlight reel of her illustrious career.)<br />
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At 73, Sainte-Marie is still working. Her latest album, 2008's Juno-winning Running for the Drum, continues to have legs, taking her all over the world. Buffy and her all-aboriginal, all-Manitoban backing band -- bassist Leroy Constant, guitarist Jesse Green and drummer Mike Bruyere -- will perform at the West End Cultural Centre tonight as part of a western Canadian tour, but she's also turning her eye to recording. She's famously judicious about making albums; she only does so when she has the time to dedicate to a project.<br />
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"I'm actually working on a new album right now," she says on the line from her idyllic home in Hawaii. "I was just in Nashville and Toronto and L.A., where I was interviewing producers to co-produce with."
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A forthcoming Buffy Sainte-Marie album will be a lot like the ones that came before it -- genre-spanning, subject-spanning and completely unpredictable. She never writes with a record in mind.
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"That might be what people might think -- the company says, 'Oh, it's time to make a record,'" she says, dropping her voice several octaves to imitate an label exec. "But if you're a real writer, you're working all the time. I come from the '60s, when it was OK to be diverse. Record companies got very concerned about genres, and I think the public started thinking that way, too. The Internet has made it a lot more like how it was in the '60s."
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Then again, Buffy's always had a healthy disregard for genre boxes and an expansive palette of influences to draw from, whether its music or visual art. She says that one discipline doesn't really inform the other, at least not in a conscious way.
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"Same brain, different tools," she says, simply. "I got a lot of college degrees but it's not that high-falutin'. It's just about splashing paint, or words. Painting, music, dancing -- it's all play. What I like, I keep; what I don't, I forget. If we're made in the image of the Creator, then we're meant to be creative. I can bake a cake or learn a dance and be just as happy." (She's dancing a lot lately, taking private ballet lessons. "I've always dreamed of dancing. It's so beautiful to be involved with.")<br />
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Her playful approach means her work rarely feels like work. "Work is packing and getting in the airplane. Writing songs -- that's the fun part."<br />
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Though she ranks among the greatest protest singers of the 1960s, Sainte-Marie rarely sits down with a fully sketched-out idea. Songs come to her like dreams, ephemeral and fluid.<br />
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"Some of my songs are like Universal Soldier or any of the other songs people might call protest songs, others are just songs to dance to. Some are love songs."<br />
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When it comes to activism, however, she does have causes that are close to her heart. She says she's proud of Neil Young for sparking vital conversation about the environmental effect of Alberta's oilsands during January's contentious Honor The Treaties tour.<br />
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"I'm happy people are getting on board," she says. "You couldn't get people talking about it. Now, I want people to talk louder. It's a total disaster and (the boreal forest) is not coming back."
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It's not lost on her that so many of her 1960s-era protest songs still resonate today.
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"It's interesting, huh? To me, what that means, the world itself, people's ears, their knowledge base -- it's larger now. The demise of the music biz has helped a lot. I think people are connecting like they did in the '60s again. It was repressed for so long."
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Indeed, Sainte-Marie knows what it's like to be censored; she was blacklisted in the U.S. by the administrations of presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, which sought to keep her music off the radio. She warns that we shouldn't take our right to free speech for granted.
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"It can be gagged again," she says. "It's important people keep their eyes and ears open. That's what movements like Idle No More are all about."<br />
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To that end, Sainte-Marie has some advice for her fellow activists.<br />
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"First of all, don't burn out. You have to have the courage to say, 'I need sleep, I'm going home,'" she says. "And I think everyone needs to be aware we're still the same ol' human race and power struggles can establish themselves in even the best-intended circles. Take your voice to where it'll be most effective."<br />
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Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-60525754405689700182014-01-04T10:48:00.001-08:002014-01-04T10:48:34.695-08:00 Buffy Sainte-Marie interviewed on Australian TV, 1972 (Video)<br />
Born on the Piapot Reserve in Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle Valley, Buffy Sainte-Marie was a writer of protest and love songs that became classics in the 1960s, and were recorded by such artists as Barbara Streisand, Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, and Janis Joplin.<br />
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Buffy was adopted and raised in Maine and Massachusetts. By the age of 24, Sainte-Marie had toured all over Europe, Canada, Australia and Asia. Billboard magazine named her "Best New Artist" for her debut album. During the Lyndon Johnson administration, Buffy was blacklisted along with Eartha Kitt and Taj Mahal, due to her honest, outspoken protestations.
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Buffy has travelled worldwide working hard to preserve the intellectual property of all indigenous peoples. She currently heads the Nihewan Foundation for Native American education and has also created a scholarship fund for Native American study. -<a href="http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/" target="_blank"><b>SOURCE</b></a><br />
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In 1976, Sainte-Marie quit recording to raise her son and to continue as a student of experimental music. In 1993 she returned to music and recorded "Coincidence and Likely Stories." That same year, she helped establish a new JUNO Awards category for aboriginal music. 1993 continued to be a banner year for her as she headlined a concert of indigenous artists in Lapland. The program was televised in Germany, Sweden, Norway and Finland. France named her best international artist for 1993, and the United Nations asked her to proclaim the International Year of Indigenous People.<br />
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Buffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15265721824843734835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1448945017959821647.post-22291595128932799512013-10-02T06:18:00.000-07:002013-10-02T06:18:02.732-07:00Buffy Sainte-Marie making only N.S. tour appearance Thursday at MTCC<br />
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In the only Nova Scotia appearance on her current tour, Buffy Sainte-Marie will perform at the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre Thursday night.
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The internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter first emerged on the music scene in the 1960s and by age 24 she had appeared in Europe, Canada, Australia and Asia. Her song "Until It's Time for You to Go" was recorded by a number of musical legends including Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and Cher, and her "Universal Soldier" song became an anthem of the peace movement. For her first album, Sainte-Marie was voted Billboard's Best New Artist.
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She joined the cast of Sesame Street in 1975 for five years and continued to appear at countless grassroots concerts, AIM (American Indian Movement) events and other activist benefits in Canada and the U.S. Throughout her career she has released 18 albums and three of her own television specials. She also scored movies, helped to found Canada's Music of Aboriginal Canada Juno category, taught digital music as an adjunct professor at several colleges, and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the song "Up Where We Belong," which she co-wrote. She has received numerous other honours, medals and awards, including an induction into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Sainte-Marie's latest album "Running for the Drum," which was released in 2009, earned her a third Juno Award. The recording was packaged with the bio-documentary DVD "Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life."
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Doors to the concert in Membertou will open at 7:15 p.m. and show time is 8:30 p.m., when Yukon singer-songwriter Kim Beggs will open for Sainte-Marie.
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Beggs recently released her fourth album, "Beauty and Breaking," featuring 14 original tracks as well as one traditional song previously recorded by Bob Dylan.
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A four-time Western Canadian Music Award nominee and two-time Canadian Folk Music Award winner, Beggs is widely considered among the territory’s most successful exports. She has toured Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
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Tickets to the show are $48.50 in advance, and $55 the day of the show, and are on sale at the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre box office, which can be reached by phone at 539-2300.<br />
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