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| Title | Chemawa Indian School brings in Stellar Native Acts |
| Body | From: CRUZ Caroline In honor of Native American Awareness Month, the 3rd Annual Chemawa Indian School Benefit Concert will be held at the Chemawa Auditorium, November 21st (doors open at 6:00pm). This year's concert is to raise funds for the School to Work Program (a work-study type program that will allow students to work on campus) as well as the Chemawa Athletic Scholarship and Campus Athletics Support program. The concert is free and open to the public; donations can be given at the concert. This year's concert headliner will be The Gary Small Band. Small, (Northern Cheyenne) is the 2002 Native American Music Associations' "Songwriter of the Year" for his latest release "Wild Indians". Willamette Week says Small's guitar playing is "...so reminiscent of Carlos Santana it's stunning. In fact it wouldn't be unfair to say Small could become the Santana of Native America..." Also appearing will be the singing duo Cedar Rose, featuring Nico Wind (Assinaboine Ojibwa) and Karen Kitchen (Osage). Nico Wind has toured with Ray Charles and is a music director for the NPR radio program "Wisdom of the Elders". Kitchen recently starred in the Portland Children's Theatre production of "Sacagawea" at the Keller Auditorium in Portland, Oregon. Indian Flutist extraordinaire' Ward Stroud (Yaqui) will be appearing as well. Stroud is an international recording artist and an acclaimed Indian flute maker. Stroud's flutes are some of the most beautiful found today and will be on display. The show will also include appearances by: Indian poet and grass dancer Jerry Raining Bird (Chippewa Cree), performing Native Fancy Dance will be Rebecca Payne who competes in and teaches Fancy Dance. Performing interpretive dance will be Rebecca Rank, a graduate in dance from the University of Oregon. Both Payne and Rank were runners up in the Miss Native American Oregon Pageant last summer. The Chemawa Website is www.chemawa.bia.edu and the Gary Small Band website is www.garysmallband.com |
| Source | Chemawa Indian High School |
| Inputdate | 2003-10-23 19:31:00 |
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