New Album : Power in the Blood - Tour Dates

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!

03/18 Cardiff, UK - Motorpoint Arena * 

03/20 Leeds, UK - First Direct Arena * 

03/21 Glasgow, UK - The SSE Hydro * 

03/24 Belfast, UK - Odyssey Arena * 

03/26 London, UK - The Tabernacle 

03/27 Birmingham, UK - Barclaycard Arena
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04/26 Sidney, BC - Mary Winspear Centre
04/29 Campbell River, BC - The Tidemark Theatre 

04/30 North Vancouver, BC - Capilano University Centre for the Performing Arts Theatre
05/01 North Vancouver, BC - Capilano University Centre for the Performing Arts Theatre 

05/06 London, ON - Aeolian Hall
05/07 Toronto, ON Koerner Hall 

05/09 Burnstown, ON - Neat Coffee Shop 

05/15 Lincoln, NE - University of Nebraska Lincoln
05/17 Chicago, IL - City Winery
05/18 Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live
05/19 Washington, DC - The Hamilton
05/20 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
07/16 Grass Valley, CA - California Worldfest
08/07 Little Current, ON - Manitoulin Country Fest

Visit iTunes here or Amazon here to get your copy today. UK pre-order available through Amazon UK here.

Buffy Sainte-Marie Returns with 'Power in the Blood'

Arrival of Power in the Blood. This album will drop on May 12 through True North Records.


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).

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.

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."

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.

The new version of "It's My Way" can be streamed at the bottom of this page, along with the old version.

Power in the Blood:

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


Tour dates:

03/18 Cardiff, UK - Motorpoint Arena *

03/20 Leeds, UK - First Direct Arena *

03/21 Glasgow, UK - The SSE Hydro *

03/24 Belfast, UK - Odyssey Arena *

03/26 London, UK - The Tabernacle

03/27 Birmingham, UK - Barclaycard Arena *

04/26 Sidney, BC - Mary Winspear Centre
04/29 Campbell River, BC - The Tidemark Theatre

04/30 North Vancouver, BC - Capilano University Centre for the Performing Arts Theatre

05/01 North Vancouver, BC - Capilano University Centre for the Performing Arts Theatre

05/06 London, ON - Aeolian Hall

05/07 Toronto, ON Koerner Hall

05/09 Burnstown, ON - Neat Coffee Shop

05/15 Lincoln, NE - University of Nebraska Lincoln
05/17 Chicago, IL - City Winery
05/18 Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live
05/19 Washington, DC - The Hamilton
05/20 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
07/16 Grass Valley, CA - California Worldfest

08/07 Little Current, ON - Manitoulin Country Fest

SOURCE ARTICLE Via http://exclaim.ca/http://exclaim.ca/

Buffy Sainte-Marie, coming to Brisbane in March.

Written by Nick King 

On the back of her eighteenth studio album, legendary singer songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie joined Clare Blake ahead of her upcoming Australian tour.

 "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.

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.

 "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"
Via 4bc

Buffy Sainte-Marie will perform in Brisbane on Wednesday 11th march at The Tivoli theatre.

listen to ‘Buffy Sainte-Marie’ on audioBoom

Buffy Sainte-Marie plays Sidney's Charlie White Theatre

Charlie White Theatre Wrote:

 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.

Not one to rest on her accomplishments, Buffy Sainte-Marie has never stopped channelling her infinite musical and artistic creativity.

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.

"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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Buffy Sainte-Marie reflects on time with Sesame Street

Sesame Street celebrates 45th anniversary

Article by Karin Yeske for http://ckom.com

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.

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.

“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.

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.

“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.

“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.

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.

“I think everyone can appreciate the shows that they came out with because they are truly child centred.”

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.

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.

“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.

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.

“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.

Sainte-Marie is currently putting a new band together to start rehearsing in January before her new album comes out in May.

“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.

Sainte-Marie said message of inspiration is encapsulated in a song she wrote called Jeremiah.

“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.

Three Questions About Human Rights with Buffy Sainte-Marie

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.

What do you think the role of music is in human rights?

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.

How has activism and the pursuit of Human Rights shaped your music?

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.

Who is your inspiration?

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.
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"Welcome Welcome Emigrante" from album Many a Mile (Video - Lyrics)

Dedicated to the emigrants of our world who ever they are and which ever home they choose

Oh welcome, welcome emigrante,
to my country, welcome home.
Welcome, welcome emigrante,
to the country that I love.

I am proud, I am proud,
I am proud of my forefathers and I say
they built this country.
And they came from far away
to a land they didn’t know,
the same way you did, my friend.

So welcome, welcome emigrante,
to my country, welcome home.
Welcome, welcome emigrante,
to the country that I love.

I am proud, I am proud,
I am proud of my forefathers and I say
about their courage.
For they spoke a foreign language
and they laboured with theirs hands,
the same way you did, my friend.

So welcome, welcome emigrante,
to my country, welcome home.
Welcome, welcome emigrante,

to the country that I love.