Joanne Shenandoah

   
Artist: Joanne Shenandoah

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Skywoman

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


   
 Covenant

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 Peace and Power

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14


   
 Eagle Cries

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12


   
 Warrior In Two Worlds

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 16


   
 Peacemaker's Journey

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 Orenda

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 16


   
 Matriarch: Iroquois Women's Songs

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 13


   
 Life Blood

   Year:    
Tracks: 18


   
 All Spirits Sing

   Year:    
Tracks: 11

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Native American vocalizer Joanne Shenandoah is a member of the Wolf Clan of the Oneida Nation, Iroquois Confederacy. Her parents, Maisie Shenandoah, a Clanmother, and the late Clifford Shenandoah, an Onondaga foreman and jazz guitarist, loved music and named Joanne "Tek-ya-wha-wha," which means "she sings" in the Oneida language. As a child, Joanne learned all the tribal songs and studied voice, transverse flute, piano, clarinet, guitar, and violoncello. She draws upon her rich inheritance, so far hind end bring these songs into a modern-day mise en scene.


In 1994, Shenandoah panax quinquefolius at the Woodstock Festival and has appeared on and created healthy tracks for numerous television shows, most notably Northern Exposure and How the West Was Lost. She has performed and recorded with many realized musicians in Europe and America, including pianist/composer Peter Kater, Neil Young, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, and Rita Coolidge. From traditional chants to contemporaneous ballads of Native slipway, her music has been described as an emotional experience, a "Aboriginal American trance."


Shenandoah is the cofounder and president of Round Dance Productions, a not-for-profit educational Native-operated foundation dedicated toward the preservation of Iroquois culture. Round Dance has begun to initiate activities which will consequence in the instauration of a Native American traditional music archive, playacting arts centre, and recording studio. In 1993, Shenandoah was prestigious with the "Native American of the Year" award, and the future year she was awarded "Native Musician of the Year," from the First Americans in the Arts Foundation. Shenandoah has recorded on the Canyon Records and Silver Wave Records labels since then, delivering a sometimes patched simply always reliable array of Native American music. Highlights of her catalog include 1997's strong and solemn Matriarch: Iroquois Women's Songs and 2001's politically motivated Eagle Cries.





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