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Featured NAMA Hall of Fame Inductees:
Rickey Medlocke (Lynyrd Skynyrd/Blackfoot)
Felipe Rose (Village People)
Janice Marie Johnson of Taste of Honey
Pat Vegas of Redbone
With Additional Performances By:
Native Roots
Edmund Bull
Star Nayea
Pura Fe’
Johnny Curtis
Iro quois Dancers
Young Gunz
Special Guests:
Joanne Shenandoah
Robert Tree Cody
Glen Ahhaitty
Golana
Jan Michael Looking Wolf
Ghosthorse
Carroll Medicine Crow
The Red Corn Band
Chucki Begay
The Breeze Band
Terry & Darlene Wildman
and much more!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PLATINUM & GOLD RECORD RECORDING ARTISTS
REDBONE & TASTE OF HONEY’S JANICE-MARIE JOHNSON
TO PERFORM A SPECI AL CONCERT AT MUCKLESHOOT
INDIAN TRIBE’S WHITE RIVER AMPHITHEATRE
CELEBRATING THEIR NAMA HALL OF FAME INDUCTION
PRESENTED BY THE NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC ASSOCIATION
ON THE MUCKLESHOOT INDIAN RESERVATION
Seattle, WA- The Native American Music Association
(N.A.M.A.) is proud to present a special concert
featuring upcoming N.A.M.A. Hall of Fame inductees
Redbone with their certified gold recording of COME
& GET YOUR LOVE and Taste of Honey’s Janice Marie
Johnson with her multi-platinum single BOOGIE OOGIE
OOGIE in a special Hall of Fame Concert on Saturday
August 16th at the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe’s White
River Amphitheatre ...
On the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation.
Tickets are $10.00, $25.00 and $40.00 and are on-sale
now at all Ticketmaster outlets or available through
www.Livenation.com
Showtime is 6:00pm.
The critically-acclaimed Blues/Rock group....
"Indigenous"
Will be the opening act. Native American vendors
will also accommodate the premises. Redbone,
featuring original founding member Pat Vegas,
is a Native American rock group that reached the
top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1974
with the song.....
"Come and Get Your Love."
The Pop/Funk song was certified Gold by the R.I.A.A
for selling over one million copies is still heard
today on radio stations throughout the country.
Formed in Los Angeles, California, by Patrick Vasquez
(Pat Vegas) on bass and vocals and=2 0his brother,
Lolly,the name Redbone itself is a reference to the
band members'mixed blood ancestry.
Their first commercial success came with the single..
"Maggie"
From their second recording,
"Potlatch"
In 1970, and two other hit singles followed -
"The Witch Queen of New Orleans" (1971)
"Come and Get Your Love" (1974).
In 1973 Redbone released the politically oriented
"We were all wounded at Wounded Knee”
Recalling the massacre of Lakota Sioux Indians by
the Seventh Cavalry in 1890.
The song reached the #1 chart position in Europe.
With 15 recordings to their credit throughout their
40-year career and covers by the Real McCoy, Earth
Wind & Fire and Cyndi Lauper, the Native American
Music Awards will induct....
Redbone along with Janice-Marie Johnson
Into the N.A.M.A. Hall of Fame at the Tenth
Annual Awards show on October 4, 2008 in New York.
Janice-Marie will also be joining Redbone at White
River Amphitheater. Janice-Marie is the founder
and principal songwriter of the internationally
acclaimed and Grammy award-winning group...
" A Taste of Honey "
A Taste of Honey's self-titled debut release rocked
the record industry with the multi-platinum Disco/
R&B smash hit....
"Boogie Oogie Oogie,"
A Janice-Marie penned composition.
The recording garnered the group a Grammy for
"Best New Artist of the Year,"
And nominations for "Best R&B Single" and
"Best Vocal Performance by a Group or Duo."
Through the years, Janice-Marie's songs have
been covered, sampled and borrowed many times.
Her music of yesterday contributes greatly to
the success of numerous 'R&B,' ‘Pop,' 'Rap'
and 'Hip Hop' artists of today including;
Ice Cube, Mary J. Blige, MC Lyte, and Japanese
and European artists as well. Her music has
also been showcased on television programs including
“American Idol,” "All My Children," "Swingtown,"
“The Oprah Winfrey Show,"
And movie credits including;
"A Fate Worse Than Death,"
"Step Mom,"
"Mystery Man,"
"Contact"
Among others. Commercial credits include...
"Coca Cola", "Frito Lay", "The New York Lottery",
"Burger King" and "Old Navy".
With a 30-year career behind her, Janice-Marie
the record producer, musician, songwriter and
entertainer has once again returned to the limelight
with the release of her long-awaited CD ....
"Hiatus Of The Heart."
The single ...
“Until The Eagle Falls”
Which embraces her Stockbridge-Munsee-Mohican heritage,
and garnered Janice-Marie with a 2002 “Nammy Award..
Ror ‘Best Producer'.
The Blues-rock group Indigenous featuring lead
singer, guitarist and primary composer & lyricist
Mato Nanji will be opening for Janice Marie Johnson
and Redbone .
Indigenous began their career as a Native American
family raised on the Yankton Indian Reservation
in South Dakota. From the earliest Indigenous
performances, Mato's fiery guitar playing was
widely recognized among the greatest of his generation.
Indigenous signed with Pachyderm Records in
September of 1998. They released their first single...
"Now That You're Gone," that same year.
The record, according to K. L. Testerman in Lakota
Times, was the fifteenth most played rock and
roll song in the United States.
Indeed, by early 1999, Indigenous' music reverberated
from radio stations across the lower 48 states
and was awarded the Native American Music Awards'
Group of the Year with the release of ...
"Live At Pachyderm Studios in 1999".
A second single ...
"Things We Do".
Was released on video and received Best Video
at the American Indian Film Festival that year.
By the end of the 1999 calendar ear, Indigenous
was a popular opening band for prominent blues
performers such as ...
"B. B. King" and "Bob Dylan".
Critical comparisons between Mato and legendary
Carlos Santana and Stevie Ray Vaughn remain
commonplace. Indigenous currently performs as
many as 200 concerts annually. They are expected
to release their next CD recording....
"Broken Lands" on August 19th.
Apache Gospel artist, Johnny Curtis, will also
be performing and will be honored with a Lifetime
Achievement award.
The Native American Music Awards & Association,
founded in 1998, is the country’s leading member
ship-based association consisting of music industry
professionals directly involved in the recording
and distribution of traditional and contemporary
Native American Music initiatives.
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