Four Great Native Women Poets: Jeannette Armstrong, Boadiba, Nilak Butler, and Gina Pacaldo. Their "Tree-Mendous" Tracks play with music from the likewise great Suspect Many bands.
Indigenous People's Day is a very good idea. Of course, every day is indigenous people's day.
Oct. 14, 2024.
Let me offer today several Tracks focused on the poems and voices of four artists of the current North and Caribbean and Middle Americas.
Regarding their heritages. JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG is Syilx Okanagan, residing in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. BOADIBA is Haitian-American. NILAK BUTLER is Inuit. Gina Pacaldo is Apache.
All of these artists are also Educators, Dancers, and Translators. (Nilak passed in 2002 but of course lives on.
I hope that you enjoy their company. Recording Jeannette for the 1991 compilation TILL THE BARS BREAK and recording BOADIBA, GINA, and NILAK for the second Rebel Poets’ compilation was a privelege. May I say that their words and voices were tonic—tonic unto uplifting and exalting—and that the all of the musicians who accompanied them were inspired and inspiring as well.
JOHN BAKER, MARIO ABRUZZO, ANTHONY CARRILLO, BABATUNDE LEA, DAVID BOYCE, KEVIN CARNES, INDIA COOKE, GEORGE CREMASCHI, BETH CUSTER, DHYANI DHARMA MAS, JAMES HENRY, LEE and SALAS of Hedzolleh Soundz and Hugh Masakela’s Band, JOIE, TOM, and WILLIAM WINANT.
The Tracks here are re-mastered by DAVID FARRELL and me over the past three years.
‘MANY NATIONS, ONE PEOPLE’—GINA PACALDO
‘MANY NATIONS, ONE PEOPLE’—GINA PACALDO
‘TO THE TWINS, THE SAINTS, AND THE DEAD’—BOADIBA
‘TO THE TWINS, THE SAINTS, AND THE DEAD’—BOADIBA
‘KEEPER’S WORDS’—JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG
PERSONNEL at OLDE WEST in San Francisco in, I think, 1990—JOHN BAKER Piano, GEORGE CREMASCHI Acoustic Bass, DHYANI DHARMA MAS acoustic guitar, JAMES HENRY percussion, and JOIE violin.
‘KEEPER’S WORDS’—JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG
‘MOURNING SONG’—NILAK BUTLER
‘MOURNING SONG’—NILAK BUTLER
‘HUMANIZARTE’—GINA PACALDO
‘HUMANIZARTE’—GINA PACALDO
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JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG
BOADIBA
NILAK BUTLER and her husband DINO BUTLER
GINA PACALDO
REBEL POETS’ AMERICA FEARS THE DRUM
REBEL POETS’ WORLDS MADE FLESH
TILL THE BARS BREAK
