Buffy Sainte-Marie News

The Cree Indian folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has often complained that too many people saw her as Pocahontas with a guitar.

I was an embarrassment to them. I was outspoken about Wounded Knee, about Nixon's transferring the lands of the Pine Ridge reservation to the U.S., the part that contained coal and uranium.

WINNIPEG a ' Buffy Sainte-Marie was given a lifetime achievement award and a special tribute Friday night at the Aboriginal Peoples' Choice Music Awards.

Chilliwack artist Inez Jasper scooped awards in four categories at the 4th annual Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards, Friday night in Winnipeg.

Last year, Chilliwack, B.C., R&B singer-songwriter Inez was at Manito Ahbee Festival handing out copies of her three-song demo.

The veteran stage and screen actor fully understands the burden that comes with hosting the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards because so many up-and-coming native performers, and even more young aboriginals for whom showbiz success remains a far-away dream, will look to him for inspiration because he's one of the few who've made it.

For a holiday rooted in outsize theatrics, Halloween doesn't often translate into great music.

WORLD music superstars will rub shoulders with some of Scotland's best-known singers and songwriters when Glasgow hosts the annual Celtic Connections festival in January.

Tickets for two upcoming holiday shows at Mayo Civic Center go on sale this weekend.

OVER the past three decades Billy Bragg has been brewing up a mixture of folk, rock and punk to create a unique, acclaimed body of work that expounds his beliefs in social activism.

Digging Roots have unearthed a leading six nominations heading into next month's Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards.

The 4th Annual Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards take place at MTS Centre in Winnipeg on Friday November 6. Television personality Lorne Cardinal will once again host the APCMAa TMs, which will broadcast live on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and Bell Express Vu.

Buffy Sainte-Marie has a busy couple of days in London. Tomorrow, she will be present the Cradleboard Project, her program that teaches native culture to children.

"It just kinda happened." Pop Montreal director Dan Seligman could have been talking about how his little indie music fest has arrived at its eighth edition, or even how it began in the first place.

Buffy Sainte-Marie at Highline Ballroom Whispers at BB King's Jim Norton at Wellmont Theatre Phoenix and Passion Pit at Rumsey Playfield/Central Park Buckethead at Governors Island Tiesto at Hammerstein Ballroom Songwriters By The Sea w, Joe D'Urso, Joe Rapolla, Lisa Lowell, Scott Kempner and Jen Chapin at Pollack Theater, Monmouth University ...

Nitzsche was one of the backroom geniuses of pop, his contributions as arranger and pianist helping to define the golden age, his grandiose confections of big piano chords, tubular bells, sweeping strings, massive drums and harpsichords a natural fit for melodramatic balladeers such as PJ Proby and The Walker Brothers.

Boston Phoenix The death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy early Wednesday morning hastens the issue of succession to the seat he has held since he was elected in 1962, a topic that has gripped the state's political class since Kennedy's brain tumor was discovered more than a year ago.

August 29, 2009 - Ms. BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE : Ooh, you better wake up… Buffy Sainte-Marie has a new CD out.

Buffy Sainte-Marie is used to this line of indiscreet questioning, at least from her fans in the United States.

Even though she's helping promote her newest recording in 13 years, Buffy Sainte-Marie still wants to keep her private life to herself.