 Weaving
The Strands: Music By Contemporary Native American Women
Chosen
from a dozen recent recordings by contemporary Native American
women artists, the music of Weaving the Strands is
a banquet of spirited sustenance, reflecting the various
passages, celebrations, and phases of feminine life. There
are call and response and group chants, songs of meditation,
worship, and joyous revelry as interpreted by women from
tribes including Chippewa, Mestizo, Cherokee, and Muscogee.
New listeners of Native American music may well be surprised
by the marriage of anticipated flute, drum, and chant, and
chant with plugged-in jazz guitar and country fiddle. Liner
notes wisely provide information on the artists and the
original recordings from whence their contributions come.
Among the most well known in the group, Navajo songmaker
Sharon
Burch renders two of the most moving compositions, the
reflective "I Walk Alone" and "Sacred Wind,"
featuring an extraordinary fiddle line twining round her
expressively centered vocal. --Paige La Grone (Amazon.com)
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On May 24th,
1998 The First Annual Native American Music Awards made its historic
debut as a sold out show. The Awards was a huge success and highly
acclaimed for its professionalism, beauty, inspiration, and method
of providing overdue recognition for an indigenous art form...
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