Artist: Joanne Shenandoah Genre(s):
New Age
Other
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
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.
