ICT - Living - Entertainment http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment RSS Feed for ICT - Living - Entertainment en-us Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT Channing Concho http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/65816347.html ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – For Channing Concho, a petite, pretty woman of 23, music is part of her DNA. Her father was a drummer, and both parents exposed her to a variety of music at an early age. But it wasn’t until high school that she and two of her friends formed a band, and her true passion developed. Interrelated histories, landscapes inform work in ‘Scout’s Honour’ http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/66566972.html SANTA FE, N.M. – Inspired by the social, cultural and physical landscape of the Canadian Shield, “Scout’s Honour,” featuring the work of Michael Belmore and Frank Shebageget will be showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts through Jan. 31, 2010. Story of Americans with Native and black ancestry stirs deep emotions http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/66570997.html WASHINGTON – An exhibition opening this fall at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian explores the identity of people whose ancestry is both African American and Native American. Native community reclaims history of Alutiiq masks http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/65815892.html JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – For more than 100 years, more than 70 Alutiiq ceremonial masks were housed in a museum in France, honored as art yet completely cut off from their original cultural context. The Breaking Wind blows into a prime time spot http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/65814887.html CALEDONIA, Ontario – The Breaking Wind, an unsigned teen band from Caledonia, Ontario, Canada breezed right into prime time when ESPN and ABC played a portion of their song “Dear Mr. Murphy” for an on-air teaser, prior to the kick off of Saturday Night Football, Michigan vs. Iowa Oct. 10. PBS Documentary on national parks began Sept. 27 http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/64004272.html PBS debuted its documentary series “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” Sept. 27. The 12-hour, six-part documentary series, filmed over the course of six years in many national parks, was directed by Ken Burns and co-produced by his colleague Dayton Duncan, co-author of the script. A conversation with Native musician Michael Bucher http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/63997112.html Cherokee musician Michael Bucher is gaining considerable ground as a Native artist. Southwest Indian Art Fair canceled http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/63535027.html TUCSON, Ariz. – As a result of this year’s first round of cuts to its annual state budget allotment, Arizona State Museum has canceled its annual Southwest Indian Art Fair for 2010. This would have been the museum’s 17th annual. ‘7 Artists, 7 Teachings: Contemporary Great Lakes Native Art’ http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/52675452.html EVANSTON, Ill. – Seven contemporary Native American artists from the Great Lakes region will unveil interpretations of the revered principles known as The Seven Grandfather Teachings in an exhibit on view Sept. 20 to Dec. 30, at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 3001 Central St., Evanston, Ill. Putting out the call http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/49202307.html TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – Stories are told through visual interpretation and the Cherokee Nation will convey its history through artifacts permanently secured or provided on loan for display at the soon-to-be opened Cherokee National Supreme Court Building Museum with phase one renovations scheduled to be completed the first week in July. This venture will be the Cherokee Nation’s first wholly owned and operated museum.