Buffy Sainte-Marie: Native American Music

"Buffy Sainte-Marie recently released her 18th album, Running for the Drum (Gypsy Boy*EMI Canada) to critical acclaim and went on to win her second Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year. Running for the Drum will be released in France through Socadisc and throughout Europe through Cooking Vinyl.

Reuniting with former co-producer, Chris Birkett (Coincidence and Likely Stories and Up Where We Belong), Buffy Sainte-Marie's newest album was recorded in her home studio in Hawaii. Celebrated for her tremendous diversity in song-writing styles, Running for the Drum is a whip-lash collection of power and beauty: folk/roots, pow wow-rock, rockabilly and dance.

Passionate as ever, Buffy Sainte-Marie uses her latest songs to cover an extensive array of commanding themes, including great loves and protest against environmental greed. Running for the Drum, like the artist herself, refuses to be neatly categorized into a single musical genre; instead finds itself among a rare breed of pure music fusion."

From Buffy's MySpace Page

Product Description - Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong features Buffy Sainte- Marie in concert along with aboriginal singing groups Red Bull and Stoney Park, twice world-champion powwow singers from Alberta, Canada. Sainte-Marie sings hits, which she also wrote, ranging from protest anthems to classic love songs: "Universal Soldier," "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," "Starwalker," "Until It's Time for You to Go" and "Darling, Don't Cry," a new song co-written with Edwin Bull. Although she won an Academy Award for the song "Up Where We Belong," written for the film An Officer and a Gentleman which was a hit for Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker--Sainte-Marie only recently recorded it herself and performs it on this show. A renaissance woman, Sainte-Marie is fiercely proud of her native heritage and has always celebrated the power of fire and drums. Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong touches on the many aspects of the life and music of this singer, songwriter, artist, activist and scholar. 47 minutes.