Joseph FireCrow was honored by the Native American Music Association as NAMA's 2010 ARTIST OF THE YEAR and FLUTIST OF THE YEAR!
Come stomp, dance, sing and shake your “tail feathers” with us on New Year’s Eve and weekend at the Rock, Rattle & Drum New Year’s Eve Pow Wow and Celebration 2010-2011 in the beautiful Grand Ballroom at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany’s City Center.
Honor and recognize the original people of this land by celebrating American Indian tradition, heritage, music, dance, community, friends and family. By participating in this New Year’s Eve Pow Wow we are all contributing to keeping the rich, spiritual Native American culture alive! Everyone is welcome! Our New Year’s Eve Pow Wow is a family friendly, multi-generational, alcohol and drug free event.
Pow Wows are gatherings that Native American people use as a place to meet, dance, sing, re-new and strengthen their culture.
There will be American Indian singers, dancers, drummers and storytellers representing various tribes, styles and categories. In addition, there will be traditional and contemporary native arts and crafts vendors, children’s activities, craft demonstrations, circle social dances and a delicious variety of food including buffalo chili and Indian tacos.
Aaron Athey of the Mohegan Nation will be our Master of Ceremonies. The Buffalo Singers will be our Host Drum. Hard Timez will be our Honor Deum. Our Head Man Dancer is Hector Rosa LeBeau, Cheyenne River Sioux, our Head Lady Dancer is Nakia Marion, Ojibwe, Abernaki, our Head Boy is Sherman Addi, Cherokee and our Head Girl Dancer is Kiana Omaste LeBeau, Cheyenne
River Sioux.
There will be special performances by gifted flute player Grammy and Native American Music Award winner Joseph FireCrow on New Year’s Eve and throughout the weekend. On November 12, 2010 Joseph FireCrow was honored by the Native American Music Association as NAMA’s 2010 ARTIST OF THE YEAR and FLUTIST OF THE YEAR! www.josephfirecrow.com.
Please join us on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s weekend to celebrate the New Year and the richness of the American Indian culture. For more information please visit Healing Winds at www.healingwinds.net, call 413-443-2481 or email humanityinconcert@earthlink.net. Healing Winds is a 501C3 not for profit organization whose mission is to establish Native American cultural and educational programming that honors wisdom traditions and spiritual technologies promoting community wellness and family harmony. Healing Winds is also the producer of the Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow in the Berkshires and recently produced a Pow Wow at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy.
A portion of the proceeds of the Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow will benefit the Albany Boys and Girls Club and Stride – Adaptive Sports, a not for profit veteran’s organization based out of Clifton Park, New York and “Warriors in a New Age”, a Tri-State at risk youth program and LarkTV a
youth media literacy project.
The photo of Fidel Moreno blessing the Mayor and the manager of the hotel was on the cover of the Albany Times Union . http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Photos-Pow-Wow-preview-856700.php The video link below is great video of our 1st Annual Pow Wow in 2006 – http://capitalregion.ynn.com/content/96864/huge-turnout-for-first-annual-pow-wow/
