November is Indigenous Awareness Month and in honor of that, our next NFN LIVE ONline concert streams worldwide this Sunday November 1st @ 1pm PST (Calif, USA timezone) featuring a wonderful array of Native American and indigenous music artists from across the USA and Canada, performing LIVE from their various locations!
To attend the concert, simply go to this YouTube link below, just before 1pm PST on Nov 1st.
Optional donations collected during the online concert will benefit two wonderful organizations selected by the performers: Medicine Wheel Living Park and Jana's Kids.
The concert will be hosted by Listen for Life artist Jehnean Washington, who most recently performed so beautifully on our Notes for Nourishment videoconcert on September 21 celebrating International Peace Day.
Interested in learning about each of the scheduled performers for November 1st? Jehnean kindly provided all of these bios below:
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Rene Smokez:
We as Indigenous people always look to our elders for their guidance and teachings. We respect them and give them their rightful place of honor. Today we are joined by Grandmother Rene Smokeyz. She is an elder from the Paiute nation and she will open our program traditionally with a traditional song and her precious and revered words of wisdom.
Shelley Morningsong:
2019 Native American Music Awards "Artist of the Year" Singer, Songwriter, Grammy Member, ASCAP Member, Photographer, Shelley Morningsong (N. Cheyenne) has recorded seven sensational Native American Contemporary albums and has emerged as one of New Mexico’s finest Native performers. Going back to the start of her career, right out of the gate, she won Debut Artist of the Year for her very first album “Out of the Ashes “in 2006. She has received five Native American music awards since, among other awards and accolades, including Native American Music Awards “2019 Best Blues Recording for her newest CD called Simple Truth” also “2017 Artist of the Year for Love Medicine” also “2011 Record of the Year” for Full Circle“ She has an alto voice that pulls from the depths of her cowboy boots, and songs with lyrics that cut to the heart. She has played guitar since she was a youngster when she also learned to play the classical flute. Since then, she’s mastered the Native flute.
Carolina Hoyos:
Carolina Hoyos is an accomplished writer, singer, song writer, and actress. She began as a childhood concert pianist before spending 3 seasons on “MTV Hits”. She plays Antonella in Nicolas Winding Refn's highly anticipated Amazon series "Too Old To Die Young" and made cameos in "Under the Silver Lake", “Gene Simmons: Family Jewels” and Pharrell Williams’s video of the Oscar-Nominated song “Happy”. She has shared the stage with Eddie Van Halen, Ryan Adams, and members of Guns N’ Roses. Carolina was named a Fellow in La Skins Fest Native American TV Writers Lab, earned a coveted spot on the LA County Artist Roster and is a West Hollywood Directing Artist Grantee. She also performs regularly with comedy troupes Dad Jeans and Nightpantz and is a member of Theater Artist Ensemble Native Voices at The Autry.
Arvel Bird:
With his violin, fiddle, Native flutes, and Irish whistles, Arvel weaves a powerful tapestry of music and stories. Classically trained as a violinist, Arvel Bird's compositions and performances are a confluence of styles informed by his extraordinary love of diversity—from traditional Celtic tunes and bluegrass standards to his original Native American folk and Celtic rock orchestrations. Arvel has toured worldwide to Scotland, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and in prestigious locations including the Sky Dome in Toronto, Ontario, Royal Albert Hall in London, England, Smithsonian Museums in DC and NY, Hochstein Performance Hall in Rochester, NY and the Kennedy Space Center in Cocoa, FL just to name a few -- with symphonies, chamber orchestras, large festivals and more, logging over 500,000 road miles. He is a prolific songwriter. Five of his releases have earned him international music awards.
Carlos Reynosa:
Carlos Reynosa has delighted multicultural audiences for 35 years. He infuses his native roots into his videos, photos, and music to offer a unique, progressive perspective. His mastery of flute and song reaches deep within the soul. From prayer to rock and roll, it needs to be experienced.
Carolyn Dunn:
Carolyn M. Dunn, PhD., is an indigenous poet, playwright, musician, singer, director and actor whose identity includes Cherokee, Muskogee Creek, Seminole and Choctaw Freedman descent on her father's side, and Tunica-Choctaw-Biloxi and French Creole on her mother's. She is a founding member of The Mankillers, an all-women drum from Northern California whose cd’s All Woman Northern Drum and Coming to Getcha were released on Without Rezervation Records.Dr. Dunn is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at California State University, Los Angeles, and is Artistic Director of Oklahoma indigenous Theatre Company in Oklahoma City.
Jana
Mashonee:
Jana is an American singer, songwriter,
actress, author, and philanthropist. She is originally from Robeson County,
North Carolina. Jana is a two-time Grammy nominee
and nine-time Nammy winner. Her music is steeped in R&B and gospel
roots, which introduced her to the mainstream. Jana has always stayed true
to honoring and showcasing her Native roots in her music and songwriting. From
the Lumbee nation; Jana Mashonee.
Jehnean Washington:
Jehnean Washington, host, performer, and co-producer of this concert, is a multi-talented artist. She is descendant from the Yuchi, Seminole and Shoshone nations and hails from the house of the storyteller. She is from the hodulgulgee clan and comes from a long line of singers, and musicians. She is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Jehnean has worked professionally for over 30 years, not only as a singer/song writer and musician but also in the entertainment industry’s venues of film, television, radio, voice overs, concerts, and live theater. Jehnean has performed with the prestigious Mahenwahdose productions theater company as well as with and acting as assistant artistic and musical director for the legendary American Indian Theater Company. She is an Ensemble member of Native Voices at the Autry in Los Angeles, California and is a recognized and archived actress, voice over artist, singer, songwriter, musician and storyteller with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Her original arrangement and rendition of the "Trail of Tears Song" can be heard on the Grammy nominated album, "Song of America" and she is a featured singer on the NAMMY award winning album SIIB. She also wrote, performed, and produced the Native American rock anthem “I Fly With You” and “The Greeting Song.” In her musical career she has performed and shared the stage in many different arenas of music. From rock legends like Buffy Sainte-Marie (Oscar Winner for the song Up Where We Belong) and Bobby Kimball ( lead singer of Toto), to the opera company The Industry, directed by Yuval Sharron, to singing and training with Cherokee opera singer Barbara McAlister. Jehnean is also the owner CEO of the Los Angeles based film company Lighthorsewoman Productions. She co-wrote of the award-winning screenplay for the movie RAVE. “One of my greatest joys in life is singing. It is the universal language the world can come together and enjoy.”
Pura Fe:
Pura Fé, whose name means "Pure Faith," was born in New York City and an heir to the Tuscarora Indian Nation. She is an artist, an activist, and much more. Her musical journey, running the gamut from folk to mainstream through an artful use of the blues, reflects the concerns of an artist who grew up in the Motown era, while citing Buffy Sainte-Marie, Charley Patton and Joni Mitchell as her true mentors. And, more widely, “traditional music from all over the world, wherever the spirit is connected to our roots.”
Pura Fé has studied and performed with The American Ballet Theatre Company, has been in several Broadway musicals and TV commercials. She has sung for The Mercer Ellington Orchestra, countless Jazz, R&B, Rock bands and has stamped her distinct vocals on many recordings, demos, jingles, music videos and movie soundtracks & trailers throughout her career. She is a founding member of the internationally renowned native woman’s a capella trio, Ulali, and is recognized for creating a new genre, bringing Native contemporary music to the forefront of the mainstream music industry.
Pura Fé won a Nammy (Native American Music Award) for Best Female Artist for ‘Follow Your Hearts Desire’. She also won an L’académie Charles Cros Award (French Grammy) for Best World Album for her ‘Tuscarora Nation Blues’ album.
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