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BUFFY
SAINTE-MARIE "Running For The Drum" Also includes DVD "A Multimedia Life" Irish Release Date 3rd July 2009 on Cooking Vinyl www.buffysainte-marie.com ~ www.cookingvinyl.com |
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Buffy Sainte-Marie to release first album in over 15 Years! Buffy
Sainte-Marie virtually invented the role of Native American
international activist pop star. She was a graduating college
senior in 1962 and hit the ground running in the early Sixties,
touring all alone in North America. She entertained and educated
audiences and record companies with their initial dose of Native
American reality in the first person who expected to see Pocahontas
in fringes. |
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Academy
Award winner Buffy Sainte-Marie was a graduating college senior in 1962
and hit the ground running in the early Sixties, after the beatniks and
before the hippies. All alone she toured North America’s colleges,
reservations and concert halls, meeting both significant acclaim and huge
misperception from audiences and record companies who expected Pocahontas
in fringes, and instead were both entertained and educated with their
initial dose of Native American reality in the first person.
By age 24, Buffy Sainte-Marie had appeared all over Europe, Canada, Australia
and Asia, receiving honours, medals and awards, which continue to this
day. Her song Until It’s Time For You To Go, was recorded by Elvis
and Barbara and Cher, and her Universal Soldier became the anthem of the
peace movement. For her very first album she was voted Billboard’s
‘Best New Artist’. She disappeared suddenly from mainstream
American airwaves during the Lyndon Johnson/Richard Nixon years. As part
of a blacklist, which affected Eartha Kitt, Taj Mahal and a host of other
outspoken performers, her name was included on White House stationery
as among those whose music “deserved to be suppressed”.
In Native American country and abroad, however, her fame only grew. Buffy
Sainte-Marie continued to appear at countless grassroots concerts, AIM
events and other activist benefits. She made 17 albums of her music, three
of her own television specials, spent five years on Sesame Street, scored
movies, helped found Canada’s ‘Music Of Aboriginal Canada’
JUNO category, raised a son, earned a Ph.D in Fine Arts, taught Digital
music as adjunct professor at several colleges, and won an Academy Award
Oscar for the song, Up Where We Belong.
Buffy Sainte-Marie virtually invented the role of Native American international
activist pop star. Her concern for protecting indigenous intellectual
property and her distaste for the exploitation of Native American artists
and performers have kept her in the forefront of activism in the arts
for forty years. Presently she operates the Nihewan Foundation for Native
American Education through which the Cradleboard Teaching Project serves
children and teachers throughout North America.
TODAY:
Buffy Sainte-Marie recently
completed her 18th album, Running For The Drum, due for release later
this year.
Reuniting with former co-producer, Chris Birkett (Coincidence And Likely
Stories and Up Where We Belong), Buffy Sainte-Marie’s newest album
was recorded in her home studio in Hawaii. Celebrated for her tremendous
diversity in song-writing styles, Running For The Drum is a whip-lash
collection of power and beauty: folk/toots, pow wow-rock, rockabilly and
dance.
Passionate as ever, Buffy Sainte-Marie
uses her latest songs to cover an extensive array of commanding themes,
including great loves and protest against environmental greed. Running
For The Drum, like the artist herself, refuses to be neatly categorised
into a single musical genre; instead finds itself among a rare breed of
pure music fusion.
There will be a simultaneous DVD release, Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia
Life.
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