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Buffy Sainte-Marie to Release First Album in Over 15 Years!
Running For The Drum also includes DVD A Multimedia Life Cross Canada Tour to Begin This Fall!
Buffy Sainte-Marie virtually invented the role of Native American international activist pop star. She was a graduating college senior in 1962 and hit the ground running in the early Sixties, touring all alone in North America. She entertained and educated audiences and record companies with their initial dose of Native American reality in the first person who expected to see Pocahontas in fringes.
Her concern for protecting indigenous intellectual property, and her distaste for the exploitation of Native American artists and performers has kept her in the forefront of activism in the arts for forty years.
By age 24, Buffy Sainte-Marie had appeared all over Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia, her song “Until It’s Time for You to Go” was recorded by Elvis, Barbara Streisand and Cher, and was voted Billboard’s “Best New Artist” for her very first album. She disappeared suddenly from the mainstream American airwaves during the Lyndon Johnson years, as part of a blacklist which also affected Eartha Kitt, Taj Mahal and a host of other outspoken performers. Her name was included on White House stationary as among those whose music “deserved to be suppressed.”
Throughout her career, she has made 17 albums of her music, three of her own television specials, spent five years on Sesame Street, scored movies, helped to found Canada's 'Music of Aboriginal Canada' JUNO category, raised a son, earned a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, taught Digital Music as adjunct professor at several colleges, and won an Academy Award Oscar for the song "Up Where We Belong".
Running For The Drum is Buffy’s first album since the 1992 release Coincidence and Likely Stories. The album contains twelve new inspired songs and stories about current events, art, politics and the aboriginal people that showcase her emotional integrity and thrilling voice!
The DVD A Multimedia Life, will mark the first time Buffy's extraordinary life story is told on screen. From her early days bursting onto the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 60's, to becoming an Oscar-winning songwriter, a Sesame Street regular, an international Aboriginal spokesperson and a pioneering digital artist. The hour long documentary also features interviews with several well known musicians and includes archival footage and music from a dozen or so songs of hers including "Up Where We Belong", the anti-war anthem "Universal Soldier" and more.
Buffy has just embarked on her first full scale national cross Canada tour in many years that will bring her to all major centers before Christmas and will then continue into 2009! Check out the full tour itinerary below!
CD Track Listing:
1. No No Keshagesh
2. Cho Cho Fire
3. Workin' for the Government
4. Little Wheel Spin and Spin
5. Too Much is Never Enough
6. To the Ends of the World
7. When I Had You
8. Bet My Heart on You
9. Blue Sunday
10. Easy Like the Snow Falls Down
11. America the Beautiful
12. Still This Love Goes On
DVD - Tracks / Chapters
Opening
Greenwich Village
Growing Up
Consciousness Raising
Until It’s Time For You To Go
Hawaii retreat
Digital Art
Sesame Street
Up Where We Belong
Buffy And Chuck
Cradleboard
Between Two Worlds
Going Home
Ending
Tour Itinerary:
October 1 – R.E.M. Lee Theatre – Terrace, BC
October 30 – Aeolian Hall – London, ON
October 31 – Massey Hall – Toronto, ON
November 2 – Centre in the Square – Kitchener, ON
November 3 – Hamilton Place – Hamilton, ON
November 7 – Pantages Playhouse – Winnipeg, MB
November 8 – Winspear Centre for Music – Edmonton, AB
November 10 – TCU Place – Saskatoon, SK
November 12 – Jack Singer Concert Hall – Calgary, AB
November 13 – Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Vancouver, BC
November 14 – Alix Gooldin Hall – Victoria, BC
www.buffysainte-marie.com
Buffy Sainte-Marie virtually invented the role of Native American international activist pop star. She was a graduating college senior in 1962 and hit the ground running in the early Sixties, touring all alone in North America. She entertained and educated audiences and record companies with their initial dose of Native American reality in the first person who expected to see Pocahontas in fringes.
Her concern for protecting indigenous intellectual property, and her distaste for the exploitation of Native American artists and performers has kept her in the forefront of activism in the arts for forty years.
By age 24, Buffy Sainte-Marie had appeared all over Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia, her song “Until It’s Time for You to Go” was recorded by Elvis, Barbara Streisand and Cher, and was voted Billboard’s “Best New Artist” for her very first album. She disappeared suddenly from the mainstream American airwaves during the Lyndon Johnson years, as part of a blacklist which also affected Eartha Kitt, Taj Mahal and a host of other outspoken performers. Her name was included on White House stationary as among those whose music “deserved to be suppressed.”
Throughout her career, she has made 17 albums of her music, three of her own television specials, spent five years on Sesame Street, scored movies, helped to found Canada's 'Music of Aboriginal Canada' JUNO category, raised a son, earned a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, taught Digital Music as adjunct professor at several colleges, and won an Academy Award Oscar for the song "Up Where We Belong".
Running For The Drum is Buffy’s first album since the 1992 release Coincidence and Likely Stories. The album contains twelve new inspired songs and stories about current events, art, politics and the aboriginal people that showcase her emotional integrity and thrilling voice!
The DVD A Multimedia Life, will mark the first time Buffy's extraordinary life story is told on screen. From her early days bursting onto the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 60's, to becoming an Oscar-winning songwriter, a Sesame Street regular, an international Aboriginal spokesperson and a pioneering digital artist. The hour long documentary also features interviews with several well known musicians and includes archival footage and music from a dozen or so songs of hers including "Up Where We Belong", the anti-war anthem "Universal Soldier" and more.
Buffy has just embarked on her first full scale national cross Canada tour in many years that will bring her to all major centers before Christmas and will then continue into 2009! Check out the full tour itinerary below!
CD Track Listing:
1. No No Keshagesh
2. Cho Cho Fire
3. Workin' for the Government
4. Little Wheel Spin and Spin
5. Too Much is Never Enough
6. To the Ends of the World
7. When I Had You
8. Bet My Heart on You
9. Blue Sunday
10. Easy Like the Snow Falls Down
11. America the Beautiful
12. Still This Love Goes On
DVD - Tracks / Chapters
Opening
Greenwich Village
Growing Up
Consciousness Raising
Until It’s Time For You To Go
Hawaii retreat
Digital Art
Sesame Street
Up Where We Belong
Buffy And Chuck
Cradleboard
Between Two Worlds
Going Home
Ending
Tour Itinerary:
October 1 – R.E.M. Lee Theatre – Terrace, BC
October 30 – Aeolian Hall – London, ON
October 31 – Massey Hall – Toronto, ON
November 2 – Centre in the Square – Kitchener, ON
November 3 – Hamilton Place – Hamilton, ON
November 7 – Pantages Playhouse – Winnipeg, MB
November 8 – Winspear Centre for Music – Edmonton, AB
November 10 – TCU Place – Saskatoon, SK
November 12 – Jack Singer Concert Hall – Calgary, AB
November 13 – Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Vancouver, BC
November 14 – Alix Gooldin Hall – Victoria, BC
www.buffysainte-marie.com
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