Friday, October 30, 2020

8 Native-Music artists of USA & Canada unite to raise funds for Medicine Wheel Living Park, creating alternatives for at-risk youth on Reservations.



Native American vocalist, actress & producer Jehnean Washington is shown at the Medicine Wheel Living Park in South Dakota. She will host a free, live broadcast on SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1st at 1pm PST,  featuring eight  indigenous music artists of varying styles: Arvel Bird, Carolyn Dunn, Pure Fe, Carolina Hoyos, Jana Mashonee, Shelley Morningsong, Carlos Reynosa, and Jehnean Washington. Each of these multiple-award winning artists will perform from his/her own location from across the USA and Canada. 

Optional donations made online during the livestream broadcast on November 1st will benefit the important programs happening at Medicine Wheel Living Park to counteract their contaminated water supplies and chemically polluted farming grounds caused by corporations based near the reservations. 

The MWLP project (sponsored by the Tribal Trust Foundation) was started after one reservation in the Dakotas experienced 17 teen suicides in just one year. This project involves all youth of the tribes in creating alternative farming and water supply methods, planting fruit trees and vegetable gardens, and renewing their sense of purpose/self-esteem. It has been highly successful but they need to raise considerable funds for a shelter and educational center. Our musicians are passionate about wanting to help them achieve this goal. 

This November 1st concert is part of the free monthly Notes for Nourishment online global concert series, a project of the global non-profit foundation ListenForLife.org which "inspires and empowers musicians of all cultures to use their gifts in the service of others". 

This particular concert honoring Indigenous Peoples' Day is being sponsored by an award-winning online educational series, TravelsWithMusic.com which features musicians around the world who act as tour guides into their cultures and are working to preserve and pass on their instrumental traditions.
 

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