Performance Showcase Line-up (Tentative order of appearance) Saturday, June 4, 2005 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. LÁU,WELNEW Tribal School

 

Philip Kevin Paul – WSÁ,NEC

From the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Kevin Paul has previously been published in Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets, An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English (Oxford) and BC Studies. He has a BA in Writing and English from the University of Victoria and has most recently worked as an instructor at the Saanich Adult Education Centre. The son of the late Chief Philip Paul - an internationally known indigenous-rights activist and co-founder of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs and National Native Brotherhood - Kevin lives on his family's titled land in Brentwood Bay. He is also a former lightweight boxer, once ranked 5th in BC and 13th in Canada.

George Ignace – Secwepemc

George (geo) Ignace is seventeen(17) and a citizen of the Secwepemc-Shuswap Nation in South Central BC.  He is an artist, Hip Hop singer, songwriter and composer with his own recording studio so he can produce works from local artists and has five cd’s to his credit.  George has performed locally, at the AFN-AGA in PEI in 2003 and in Germany. His music has been showcased on Aboriginal Voices Radio and he has co-authored an article for a book on Small Cities titled “Tagging, Rapping and Voices of the Ancestors: Expressing Aboriginal Identity between Small City and the Rez”.  George’s artwork is also on exhibit at the Kamloops Art Gallery.  “I believe we can make a valuable contribution to the ‘native cause’ and as young peoples our voices need to be heard”.

Art Napolean - Saulteaux, Mohawk

Art Napoleon, a.k.a, Travelling Sun, is a cross-cultural paradox, equally comfortable fasting in a tipi in the wilds as he is touring, performing and addressing a wide variety of audiences. This former Chief of the Saulteaux First Nation in Northeastern BC is a recognized educator, consultant, keeper of traditional knowledge and practitioner of cultural and community development.  He has authored a variety of publications and has been involved with a number of radio & television programs. Inspired by his grandfather who was a recognized song-maker and his Uncles who were Metis-style fiddlers, Napoleon started opening for acts such as Kashtin, James Keelaghan and Juno winners Bourne & Mcleod.

Sandy Scofield – Métis

Sandy Scofield is a Métis (of Saulteaux and Cree descent) artist/composer based in Vancouver. Her most recent release, Ketwam won the 2003 Western Canadian Music Award in Aboriginal music, and Best Folk Album and Best Production in the 2003 Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards.  Sandy has fronted many bands in her day - from rockabilly to cajun and zydeco fun bands to highly accomplished folk-rock, and vocal ensembles.  Creatively kickstarted ever since a 1995 Banff Centre for the Arts program in traditional music, Sandy's music began to find its way into film soundtracks and theatre. As a singer-songwriter, here is a complex person who, at one moment, can sing delicate, satiny pop creating a cracked and broke down scenario, and in another she can boldly harness robust rhythm, blues and rock.

This evening is hosted by:

Proud supporters of the 12^th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium and
1^st Annual Indigenous Arts Summerfest