Ganondagan's Indigenous Music & Arts Festival 2024
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sun, 07/28/2024
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Ganondagan's annual Indigenous Music & Arts festival showcases Haudenosaunee and Indigenous cultures through dance, music, storytelling, traditional craft demonstrations, an Indigenous Arts Market, children's activities, Indigenous food, and more.
This year we are deeply honored to be welcoming Māori artists and performers. The event will feature artist demonstrations, dance performances and collaborative opportunities with Haudenosaunee artists, performers, and culture bearers.
This year's festival features Native folk and blues rocker, Keith Secola (Anishinabe) & his Wild Band of Indians, hoop dance champions and performers, the Sinquah Family Dance Troupe (Hopi/Tewa/Choctaw), Bill Crouse (Seneca) and Haudenosaunee social dancers, Allegany River Indian Dancers, storytellers Ronnie Reitter (Seneca, Wolf Clan) & Perry Ground (Onondaga, Turtle Clan).
This year we will have an "All Our Relations Tent" that will host our invited Indigenous guests with all day talks, music, and demonstrations between Haudenosaunee and Māori artists. We are delighted to host Māori artists, performers, and culture bearers from New Zealand to join us for a weekend of art, enjoyment, and relationship building. The public is invited to join this relaxed atmosphere to observe as the artists create art and perform, between 10 am -5 pm.
Participating Māori Guests: Elders - Tā Derek Lardelli & Kahurangi Rose Lardelli; Tāwera Tahuri(Creative New Zealand (CNZ) visual and performing artist); Kereama Te Ua (CNZ-performing artist); Tama Waipara (contemporary musician/singer); Taisha Tāiri (contemporary musician/singer); Te Kahureremoa Taumata (traditional musician/singer); Fiona Collis (weaver); Carla Ruka (ceramics); Margaret Aull (carving/contemporary visual artist).
Participating Haudenosaunee Artists in the "All Our Relations Tent" are: Linley Logan (Seneca), multidisciplinary artist; Marie Watt (Seneca), multimedia artist; Katsitsionni Fox (Mohawk,) multidisciplinary artist, including pottery, printmaking, and filmmaking, and Hayden Haynes (Seneca), mixed media artist specializing in antler carving.
Participation in the Artists Demonstration sessions are: Dan Hill (Cayuga) silverwork, Tonia Loran Galban (Mohawk) basket making, Angela Ferguson (Onondaga) indigenous foods, Jamie Jacobs (Seneca) quillwork, Lauren Jimerson (Seneca) painting
ASL Interpretation provided at the main stage, throughout performances is sponsored by The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), a college of Rochester Institute of Technology.
Ganondagan's Indigenous Music & Arts Festival is made possible in part by NYSCA, Wegmans and NTID.
Free Admission but donations are greatly appreciated. Suggested donations, $5/per person, $10/per family
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