photo courtesy of the family of Jim Pepper
Wednesday, August 7
Parkrose HS Performing Arts Center
Theater
7:00 Keith Secola
Keith Secola
(Anishinaabe) is an icon and ambassador of Native American music. He is one of
the most influential artists in the field today. Rising from the grass roots of
North America, he is a songwriter of the People. Critics have dubbed him the
Native American versions of both Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.
NDN Kars (Indian
cars), his most popular song, is considered the contemporary Native American
anthem, achieving legendary status and earning him a well deserved cult
following. It has been the number one requested song on tribal radio since 1992.
In 2011,
Keith joined the ranks of Jimi Hendrix, Hank Williams, Crystal Gale, Richie
Valens and Jim Pepper when he was inducted into the Native American Music Hall
of Fame (NAMA). His seven NAMA awards include Lifetime Achievement
(2011). Keith opens the 1st annual Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival
as a solo singer/songwriter and returns on Friday evening August 9 as the Keith
Secola band.
Meet Keith Secola: http://jimpepperfest.net/mediagallery.html
8:30 King/Moore (Nancy King and Glen Moore)
King/Moore: No
one has a longer history of musical collaboration and friendship with Jim
Pepper than Glen Moore. They performed as teenagers with the Young Oregonians.
Glen Moore went on to co-found the band Oregon, which continues to keep Jim's
music alive worldwide.
World-renowned jazz singer Nancy
King's connection to Jim Pepper began in the 1960s. Both Glen Moore and Nancy
King have earned Grammy nominations in their respective careers.
As King/Moore, Nancy King and Glen
Moore have recorded three albums together and performed across Europe and North
America. Nancy King was a nominated for a Best Jazz Singer Grammy on two
different cds with two different bands the same year.
New price: All seats are $ 25
New price: Season pass $ 95
Buy tickets now: http://jimpepperfest.net/buyticketsnow.html
Thursday, August 8
Parkrose HS Performing Arts Center
Theater
7:00 Swil Kanim
Swil Kanim (Lummi)
is a classically trained violinist, Native American storyteller and actor. He
is an activist whose life mission is to bring healing and hope through music,
fine arts and storytelling. As a young boy, he was separated from his parents
and spent the remainder of his childhood in a series of foster homes. One of
his teachers encouraged him to enroll in a music program, and the violin became
his instrument of choice. Through music, he found his path to healing his childhood
wounds and reconnecting to his Native American roots. He credits his fourth
grade teacher and access to band at school with saving his life, and he wants
to tell you the story….
Meet Swil Kanim: http://jimpepperfest.net/mediagallery.html
8:30 The Star Nayea Band
Star Nayea: When Star Nayea
was only two months old, she was taken from her Native American family because
of the 1950s-70s baby sweep perpetrated by the United States and Canada.
Despite the good intentions of the Lutheran Social Services of Detroit,
Michigan, she landed in an extremely abusive adoptive family that did not share
her heritage. After several years of pain and struggle, she escaped her
adoptive family and began to reach for her dreams of musical freedom.
While the experience and circumstances that brought Star Nayea to Detroit were unfortunate to say the least, the surrounding Motor City Rock and Roll scene and the raved-about MO-Town sound influenced and shaped her tastes as she grew into the young woman with the unique soulful style. Star began her musical career in her home town of Detroit, but it was not long before she was selling out shows in New York City, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
While the experience and circumstances that brought Star Nayea to Detroit were unfortunate to say the least, the surrounding Motor City Rock and Roll scene and the raved-about MO-Town sound influenced and shaped her tastes as she grew into the young woman with the unique soulful style. Star began her musical career in her home town of Detroit, but it was not long before she was selling out shows in New York City, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
Star Nayea has worked with many noteworthy Native
American artists such as Indigenous, Joanne Shenandoah, and Buffy St. Marie.
She overcame her negative experiences and became a Grammy-winning and
Nammy-winning mentor and inspiration to many young aspiring Native American
singers. She’s bringing some of them with her. Her students will perform earlier
on the Flying Eagle Main Stage at 3:00.
Meet Star Nayea: Mountain Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1qij-yhw94
New price: All seats are $ 25
New price: Season pass $ 95
Buy tickets now: http://jimpepperfest.net/buyticketsnow.html
Friday August 9
Parkrose HS Performing Arts Center
Theater
7:00 The Keith Secola Band
Keith Secola returns to the stage with
a band that features Parkrose High School graduate, bandleader and guitar
player Brian Harrison.
8:30 The Free Spirits Reunion, pt 1: Larry Coryell, Ra-Kalam Bob Moses, Chris
Hills, Columbus Chip Baker and Friends
This band is beyond legendary! Reuniting
more than forty years after they last performed as The Free Spirits to remember
and celebrate their friend and bandmate Jim Pepper.
The beginning of jazz-rock is
commonly dated in the late '60s with the emergence of Blood,
Sweat, & Tears, the Electric Flag, and Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, but in fact a few sporadic efforts were
made at reconciling the two forms before that. The
Free Spirits, a
New York group featuring the guitar, songwriting, and singing of Larry
Coryell,
may have been the first.
Augmenting the usual
guitar-bass-drums rock lineup with the tenor saxophone of Jim
Pepper,
the quintet's backgrounds were decidedly jazz. But their sound was considerably
closer to rock, investing the early psychedelic sounds of the day with
relatively adventurous, jazz-derived improvisation, horns (or one, anyway), and
elastic song structures. They weren't avant-garde by any means; on their LP,
their innovations were tailored to fit songs with vocals lasting between two
and three-and-a-half minutes. Their moderate use of jazz idioms within pop and
rock frameworks was innovative for its day and has always been unfairly
overlooked. --Richie Unterberger
Larry Coryell deserves a
special place in the history books. He brought what amounted to a nearly alien
sensibility to jazz electric guitar playing in the 1960s, a hard-edged, cutting
tone, phrasing and note-bending that owed as much to blues, rock and even
country as it did to earlier, smoother bop influences. Yet as a true eclectic,
armed with a brilliant technique, he is comfortable in almost every style, from
the most decibel-heavy distortion-laden electric work to the most delicate,
intricate lines on acoustic guitar.
Watch him demolish Ravel’s
Bolero with a 12-string guitar and meet Larry Coryell and The Free Spirits: http://jimpepperfest.net/mediagallery.html
New price: All seats are $ 25
New price: Season pass $ 95
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August 10
Parkrose HS Performing Arts Center
Theater
7:00 John Trudell and Bad Dog
John Trudell is an acclaimed poet, national
recording artist, actor and activist whose international following reflects the
universal language of his words, work and message. Trudell (Santee Sioux) was a
spokesperson for the Indian of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz
Island from 1969 to
1971. He then worked with the American Indian Movement (AIM), serving as
Chairman of AIM from 1973 to 1979.
In 1982, Trudell began recording his poetry
to traditional Native music and in 1983 he released his debut album Tribal
Voice on his own Peace Company label. Trudell then teamed up with the late
legendary Kiowa guitarist Jesse Ed Davis. Together, they recorded three albums
during the 1980's. The first of these, AKA Graffiti Man, was released in 1986
and dubbed the best album of the year by Bob Dylan. AKA Graffiti Man served
early notice of Trudell's singular ability to express fundamental truths
through a unique mix of poetry, Native music, blues and rock.
Since that time,
Trudell has released seven more albums plus a digitally re-mastered collection
of his early Peace Company cassettes. His 2002 CD, Bone Days, was executive
produced by Academy Award winning actress Angelina Jolie.
His latest
double album, Madness & The Moremes, showcases more than five years of new
music and includes special Ghost Tracks of old favorite Trudell tunes made with
legendary Kiowa guitarist Jesse Ed Davis. This internet only release offers a
full range of classic Trudell poetry – there are lyrics
filled with penetrating insight and others with knock out humor, all put to
some of the best music Bad Dog has ever made together.
In addition to his music
career, Trudell has
played roles in a number of feature films, including a lead role in the Mirimax
movie Thunderheart and a major part in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals. He most
recently played Coyote in Hallmark's made for television movie, Dreamkeeper.
Meet John
Trudell and Bad Dog: http://jimpepperfest.net/mediagallery.html
8:30 The Free Spirits, pt 1: Larry Coryell, Ra-kalam Bob Moses, Chris
Hills, Columbus Chip Baker and Friends
The Free Spirits and Friends re-take the stage to close out the 1st
annual Jim PepperFest Native Arts Festival, Jim
PepperFest 2013: Rise of The Free Spirits.
New price: All seats are $ 25
New price: Season pass $ 95
Buy tickets now: http://jimpepperfest.net/buyticketsnow.html
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