All My Relations Celebration: The Halluci Nation, Samantha Crain . . .
Levitt Pavilion Denver
1380 W Florida Ave, Denver, CO 80223, USA
Colorado
39.6865273
-105.0030017
Description
Presented by KGNU
All My Relations Celebration is a music festival meant to celebrate indigenous artistry through music, dance, and art by bridging cultural heritage with a contemporary lens. In partnership with Denver Indian Center, this festival aims to highlight native creatives through a mixture of performances from native musicians featuring The Halluci Nation, Samantha Crain and Frank Waln, a live painter, vendors and artisans, informational resource booths, food to share, youth programming and comedic medicine.
The Halluci Nation:
As they enter a new cycle, Bear Witness and Tim “2oolman” Hill of A Tribe Called Red are reintroducing themselves as The Halluci Nation, to reflect the evolution of their music and mission. The Halluci Nation, takes its name from a phrase coined by John Trudell, to describe the vast global community of people who remember at their core what it means to be human. As a visionary artist and activist, Trudell recognized the connection between his accomplishments and what ATCR did intuitively through music and art.
Trudell’s voice was the first heard on Tribe’s last record, We Are The Halluci Nation, and will, fittingly, be the first you hear on The Halluci Nation’s upcoming record, One More Saturday Night. The album is a love letter to the Electric Pow Wow gatherings launched at Ottawa’s Babylon nightclub in 2007. It represents an imagined denouement to the biweekly Saturday-night parties that ended abruptly in 2017, without ever getting the proper send-off. One More Saturday Night thus pays homage to the parties’ energy and momentum that elevated The Halluci Nation to this pivotal point in their career of fully mastering their own music style while also moving beyond club music; or “mixing dance music with dance music,” as Bear Witness succinctly puts it.
Samantha Crain:
Samantha Crain is a Choctaw singer, songwriter, poet, producer, and musician from Oklahoma. She is a three-time Native American Music Award winner and winner of an Indigenous Music Award. Her genre spanning discography has been critically acclaimed by media outlets such as Rolling Stone, SPIN, Paste, No Depression, NPR, PRI, The Guardian, NME, Uncut, and others. She has toured extensively over the past 15 years nationally and internationally, presenting ambitious orchestrated shows with a band and intimate folk leaning solo performances. She has toured with First Aid Kit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Gregory Alan Isakov, The Avett Brothers, The Mountain Goats, Brandi Carlile, Langhorne Slim, The Staves, and many other bands and artists. With her new album, “A Small Death”, and newer EP, “I Guess We Live Here Now”, she continues her tradition of keeping things close to the heart and the ground by leaning into the fulfillment of affinity with an audience and the satisfaction of a song with a memorable melody and an honest story.
Frank Waln:
Frank Waln is a Sicangu Lakota public speaker, multi-genre music artist and curator from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. He received a BA in Audio Arts & Acoustics from Columbia College Chicago where he was given the Mayor’s Award for Civic Engagement upon graduating. He has won several awards for his work including four Native American Music Awards and international film festival awards for his music videos he filmed at home on the Rosebud Reservation.
Frank Waln has received several artist fellowships and residencies for his work and has performed and presented his work at universities, museums and art institutions around the world including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Museum National Museum of the American Indian, the Linden Museum in Germany and the University of Paris in France. Frank Waln has also performed and facilitated music workshops for youth including Native youth reservations and non-Native youth from various communities around the world. Frank Waln has appeared on radio and television including MTV, The History Channel, ESPN and NPR. Frank Waln recently curated a new music interactive exhibit in the Field Museum's new renovated Native American Exhibition Hall which will be up for 3 years. Frank Waln’s music is available on all streaming platforms.
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Start:
2023-08-10T18:30:00-06:00
End:
2023-08-10T22:00:00-06:00
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