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Make America Native Again & #ImWithHer – Presidential Election 2016

I am an independent, stubborn southern belle & outlaw queen — Always been, always will be. Still, I believe #TheFutureIsFemale & I am also, of course, here for #IndigenousFutures – so I voted today in remembrance of my heroines: my Pamunkey mother Anne Marie from the Shenandoah Valley & Miz Fannie Lou Hamer, The Black Panther of Lowndes County. Sho’nuff, neither party gave us much of a decent choice & Kaine has only paid lip service to #NoDAPL on the eve of the election, smacking of desperation. Yet I have got to take the long view for the Turtle Island Liberation Movement I am a part of & with deep south kin still alive who were persecuted and firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan for daring to vote & mobilize their African-descent community to do so, I will never take my right to vote for granted. And a #NastyGal does step into the breach & flex her power, too – Love, that’s America! A’ho*

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#KandiaCrazyHorse #NativeAmericana #singersongwriter #CosmicAmericanMusic #NativeAmerican #artist #activist #indigenousrevolutionary #AfroHippie #IStandWithStandingRock #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #LoveWillWin #Merica

Sidenote: as a Black Bullette/Taurus Woman & Wonderlove(r), this was great to read today: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stevie-wonder-driving-equals-trump-presidency_us_5820c1a0e4b0aac62485fa21 KANDIA CRAZY HORSE loves STEVIE WONDER (a key influence)

img_1653 ( Kandia Crazy Horse #IdleNoMore in the voter queue today in Hamilton Heights / Harlem-on-the-Range, Uptown NYC – @cactusroselovesyou Instagram )

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( Coming out of my polling place, a school named for Adam Clayton Powell Jr. – IG: @cactusroselovesyou )

img_1652 ( Some local Latina sisters were gifting us #StarsAndStripes Hershey kisses while we waited to vote #VoteNYC – IG: @cactusroselovesyou )


Kandia Crazy Horse x Jimi Hendrix: Native American Heritage Month

Hope yer gettin’ over The Hump well this week, Sisters & Brothers! For those that don’t know: November is #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Here in New York City, I will be doing lots of actions & activities to honor that. Among them, I am doing a prayerful march through the entirety of Manhattan Island this Saturday with my friends of the Eagle & Condor Community Center (in Queens), from the National Museum of the American Indian @ Bowling Green (the southernmost tip of Manhattan) all the way to Shorakapok (the Indian Caves @ Inwood Hill on the Spuyten Duyvil). The march goes from 10 am until 6pm. I will also be rolling through the Black Farmers Conference in Harlem this weekend.

This month, I will be performing at another benefit for Standing Rock, on November 25 @ 9pm, this time at the City’s premiere venue for hillbilly/old-timey/bluegrass/roots music — the Jalopy Theater in Brooklyn. I have been trying to work it out to play at Jalopy for a long time, so happy to finally do so for a great, beautiful cause so near and dear to my Native heart. This will also be the proper debut of my new Native Americana / twang band Cactus Rose. More details TBA!

img_2989 (Kandia Crazy Horse @ Electric Lady Studios in vintage fringed buckskin jacket, Greenwich Village NYC, by Camara Dia Holloway)

Made my #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth pilgrimage to #ElectricLadyStudios in the Village, honoring #JimiHendrix’ Native #Tsalagi roots. Received some purple & feathered energy from Jimi that I will be unleashing when I perform @ the Standing Rock benefit @ Jalopy – A’ho*

#Jimi Hendrix #AniYunwiya #KandiaCrazyHorse x #CactusRose #Pamunkey #Afrohippies #CherokeeMist #TaharqaAleem #Ibeji #TheAleems #TwinsSevenSeven #NativeAmericana #ICanHearAtlantisFullOfCheer #MniWiconi #ElectricLadies #CosmicAmericanMusic


Hawk Medicine in Hudson Canyon

We three Native American sisters & NYC artists, representing three Nations & both the Upper and Deep South, had a lovely, impromptu gathering down by the riverside of Hamilton Heights yesterday before the rains swept along the Hudson River. Surrounded by several circling & swooping hawks, we began a powerful conjure straight out of Hudson Canyon — look forward to us being involved with the recently-discovered Lenape burial mounds at 125th Street in Harlem, among other projects – A’ho* #KandiaCrazyHorse #TessReese #KimberlyRobison / #Karline #HawkMedicine

img_1229 (Kandia Crazy Horse on the Hudson River, view of the Palisades, by Tess Reese, Choctaw)

img_1233 (Karline x Kandia x Tess, by Kandia Crazy Horse)

img_1231 (Stormy Sunday in Hudson Canyon by Kandia Crazy Horse)


Project Americana: The American Slave Coast: Live in Amsterdam News

Here’s the first press for our #ProjectAmericana undertaking tonight in Manhattan at Symphony Space — from Harlem’s own Amsterdam News THE AMERICAN SLAVE COAST: LIVE in NYC

Enjoy your TGIF & see y’all out tonight! A’ho, #KandiaCrazyHorse

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Kandia Crazy Horse x David Archambault II #mniwiconi #NoDAPL #StandingRockSiouxTribe

Between rehearsals for #ProjectAmericana & getting to assorted meetings around NYC, this has been a busy, heady week. Amongst the events I am glad I was able to make time for: Indigenous Forum @ Columbia University. The best part of this was hearing from some of the Oceti Sakowin youth who ran from Cannonball, North Dakota to Washington DC to raise awareness about the Dakota Access Pipeline & related resistance, which I have been engaged in since the dawn of August. Their emotional pleas underscored why we need to keep up our prayers and support for the water protectors at Standing Rock.

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It was also an honor to hear Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman Dave Archambault II speak, including about the long history of predations by the U.S. government & settlers on his Oyate’s sovereign territory and subsequent environmental threats to their lands; and then to get to speak to him briefly about my musical endeavors in Indian Country, as well as specifically on behalf of the water protectors of Standing Rock. Right now, we are watching the live feeds of leaders like LaDonna Allard & others, waiting to see what sadly is happening of the moment in North Dakota. Yet, I still have another musical benefit for Standing Rock in development (in NYC) & am committed to sing in support wherever, whenever may be called. A’ho*

#mniwiconi #NoDAPL #ProtectTheSacred #LoveWaterNotOil #RezpectOurWater #StandingInSolidarityWithStandingRock


Throwback Thursday: Kandia Crazy Horse x Nona Hendryx x Lezlie Harrison

A portrait of We Three – Bold Soul Sisters @ #ProjectAmericana rehearsal last night in Gramercy (Photo by Ned Sublette). We look forward to seeing you out at our performance — The American Slave Coast: Live – at Symphony Space in Manhattan this Friday night!

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Kandia Crazy Horse live in Project Americana @ Symphony Space NYC on October 28

Thanks to my dear friends Ned Sublette & Constance Sublette, I will be performing later this month at an event related to their weighty tome about the domestic, Southeastern slave trade in America during the antebellum era: THE AMERICAN SLAVE COAST

Their book has won the 2016 American Book Award, and we are delighted to help illuminate the dark history about the networks of trading Virginia Africans into the Deep South, the roles of American Presidents Thomas Jefferson & Andrew Jackson aka “Sharp Knife” (known by we of Indian Country as a bane to Native Americans yet most are hardly aware of his ownership of enslaved Africans) in slave trading, and also bringing forth the narratives of the Africans brought to U.S. shores themselves — amongst my portion of performance, I shall be reading a “Letter From Virginia,” to represent ye olde home state.

This event of Project Americana will be at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre of Symphony Space in Manhattan, 28 October @ 8pm. Right now, a limited amount of $10 tickets are available online: PROJECT AMERICANA – THE AMERICAN SLAVE COAST: LIVE

Hope to see y’all out! Here’s the gallery of outlaw artists who I will be performing with:

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nonahendryx (Nona Hendryx (of Labelle))

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Carl Hancock Rux

 

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Constance Sublette

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New Orleans bandleader/composer Donald Harrison 

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Jonathan Demme

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Lezlie Harrison

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Ned Sublette by Constance Sublette


ThrowbackThursday: “Cabin In The Pines” live from the Sacred Water Medicine Show in NYC

As filmed by Camara Dia Holloway, some footage from my Standing Rock water protectors benefit concert, the Sacred Water Medicine Show, is now viewable on this site; click the tab for MUSIC.

This song, “Cabin In The Pines,” which is based on a once-real jookhouse in Southwest Georgia but is my sonic & lyrical paean to Appalachia / Affrilachia, remains one of my most favorite songs I have written to date. If you have not gotten the Native Americana / Country / Americana album that features it yet, Stampede, it is still at my CD Baby store:     STAMPEDE available here!

Playing herein @ Decolonize This Place / Artists Space in TriBeCa with my new band, Cactus Rose (minus Brother Evan on drums!) #mniwiconi #NoDAPL #ProtectTheSacred


Kandia Crazy Horse in The Nation

So, I am off for a meeting with fellow Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance & Algonquin Pipeline folks of NYC to plan for our future actions, including more benefits for the water protectors of the Oceti Sakowin & many other nations. We just sent another bus off full of volunteers and many supplied donations to Standing Rock this past Sunday, so celebrating their road sojourn with them!

Here’s the latest press, from the Indigenous Peoples Day action I did last Monday, which mentions the Standing Rock benefit (Sacred Water Medicine Show) briefly: THE NATION

Enjoy your mid-week!


Sacred Water Medicine Show: My Standing Rock water protectors benefit concert in NYC #mniwiconi #NoDAPL

Good Friday, y’all! I am now getting feedback & documentation from the Standing Rock water protector camps benefit I conceived, curated & performed at last Saturday in Manhattan @ Decolonize This Place (Artists Space) in TriBeCa. Such was the response, I have been asked to undertake some more & when things develop, I will be sharing the word here & on my Instagram. Regardless, my personal commitment to praying for & helping support the Oceti Sakowin & other united nations assembled @ Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota remains unabated; the setbacks to the trips I was slated on since August were unavoidable, yet I still plan to be of service there. And we of the Eastern nations are paying attention to the similar projects here in our own “backyard,” such as the Algonquin Pipeline, & doing actions locally.

My #IndigenousWeek in NYC concludes tomorrow with the re-opening of the Caribbean Cultural Center (CCCADI) in Harlem on 125th Street. More to come! A’ho*

“Water Is Life – Solidarity Concert” on Saturday, October 8th, 2016 (All photographs by Camara Dia Holloway)

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Kandia Crazy Horse from The Native & The Refugee

Black&White images from The Native & The Refugee’s album of #DecolonizeThisMuseum, Decolonize This Place’s Anti-Columbus Day Tour of American Museum of Natural History on Monday 10/10/2016 – Photographs by Vane Terán

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Kandia Crazy Horse x #DecolonizeThisMuseum in Frieze

Yet more coverage of the Indigenous Peoples Day action @ American Museum of Natural History — the attempt to #DecolonizeThisMuseum & the Anti-Columbus Day Tour of the galleries seems to have really struck a nerve in art & activist circles. Read more here (including photograph of me): FRIEZE: Election Special – Body Languages

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More Indigenous Day of Remembrance 2016 in NYC

idor2016-7 (Kandia Crazy Horse dancing women’s traditional @ Indigenous Day of Remembrance NYC in Central Park, by Kerrie Sansky)

This photo collection & blog by Kerrie Sansky just in, from the Indigenous Day of Remembrance in Manhattan this past Sunday. Features several photos of me & my friends from the Movement:

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Throwback Thursday: Kandia Crazy Horse @ Indigenous Day of Remembrance NYC 10/9/16

Once again, we had a great day out at this event sponsored by the Eagle & Condor Community Center of Astoria, Queens, NY — despite the rains, which seemed to clear when the little Quechua girls of Ñukanchik Llakta Wawakuna started dancing. This year’s theme was focused on women & we Native women warriors; I sang one of my songs, about being a Virginia Native American sacred wild woman, “Bury My Heart In Rock Creek Park,” danced in the circle, and participated in ceremonies including the burning of the “Doctrine of the Discovery” as pictured below. Photos of me by my sisters-in-struggle Melissa Terra Makuriwa Ulto (Taina) & Alexis Stern.

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14567438_10153769555816541_6449866400796535231_o (Prayers up! Kandia Crazy Horse @ Indigenous Day of Remembrance in Central Park NYC, by Melissa Terra Makuriwa Ulto)
14570577_10153769563411541_4508482269982042701_o (Listening to Brother Lance First Eagle, Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge Reservation & nephew of Russell Means, speak while our Filipino #NoDAPL chronicler, Dan Vea, films)
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Kandia Crazy Horse in Indigenous Peoples Day NYC film by Peter Eliscu

Here is the footage by Peter Eliscu covering the actions I was involved in from this past Monday in Manhattan, October 10, 2016: #IndigenousPeoplesDay > #DecolonizeThisMuseum @ American Museum of Natural History > & the subsequent march through the Upper West Side commemorating the young Lakota man murdered by police in Rapid City, South Dakota, after attending a #NativeLivesMatter rally in 2014, Allen Locke.

In this film, I am dancing & reading the Indigenous Peoples Day 2016 declaration.


Kandia Crazy Horse x Decolonize This Museum NYC

Decolonize This Place’s Monday action @ American Museum of Natural History in NYC – #DecolonizeThisMuseum – was a resounding success & has been getting coverage in outlets as diverse as the Guardian (UK) & Bitch. I have already linked the press which included interviews with me on the subjects of Indigenous Peoples Day, why I am standing in solidarity with the Oceti Sakowin of Standing Rock / #NoDAPL, & ongoing issues with museum and archival collections established in the 19th century and earlier and how they resonate with us today in the 21st century. Here are some more images from the action, by myself or ones featuring me by Betty Yu. Looking forward to organizing more with #DecolonizeThisPlace – A’ho*

14563441_10209172315778423_5698614324265180754_n Kandia Crazy Horse reading the Indigenous Peoples Day 2016 declaration @ American Museum of Natural History – on the Theodore Roosevelt statue @ Central Park West & 79th Street (Credit: Betty Yu)
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14522808_530911617102756_9063092105462676208_n (Brother Amin Husain of #DecolonizeThisPlace & my Virginia homegal, artist Marz Saffore (in #BlackLivesMatter hoodie), of NYU in the galleries @ American Museum of Natural History, by Kandia Crazy Horse)
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14721602_530911850436066_327715498904209642_n (Artivists covering the statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside American Museum of Natural History in echo of the 1971 Lakota action, by Kandia Crazy Horse)

Indigenous Peoples Day 2016

Howdy y’all of Indian Country & beyond! Although my trip to Standing Rock (departing yesterday) was postponed, I am coming off a whirlwind of three days’ activity about the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance & working to establish Indigenous Peoples Day in NYC and throughout Turtle Island. My benefit for our Standing Rock water protectors, the Sacred Water Medicine Show (AKA Water Is Life – Solidarity Concert), went very well Saturday night in TriBeCa & there are some possible future shows in store – stay tuned! Will be posting photographs & live footage soon.

Sunday, despite the rains, we were at Central Park across from Columbus Circle, commemorating our Ancestors & holding forth on the experiences and leadership of Native women @ the Indigenous Day of Remembrance; I sang one of my original songs, and participated in some ceremonies besides dancing. Photos to come…

Yesterday, I did another action with Decolonize This Place: the Anti-Columbus Day Tour of the American Museum of Natural History for their #DecolonizeThisMuseum event. Here below is the press thus far that contains parts of interviews I gave on the topics of Indigenous Peoples Day, the benefit, and why I am #StandingWithStandingRock as an indigenous revolutionary to the Guardian (UK), The Nation, & the paper that I used to write for/help edit, the Village Voice. Yes, we (mostly) covered the infamous statue of Theodore Roosevelt that fronts the entrance to the Museum, but we also spread some very important messages. This is a heady Indigenous Week of a lot of related events here in NYC, and you will see me out — after I finally get a disco nap! A’ho*

14642037_10209172304698146_5484341417449614873_n (Kandia Crazy Horse reading the Indigenous Peoples Day 2016 declaration, on the covered statue of Theodore Roosevelt with African & Native American men @ American Museum of Natural History NYC – Credit: Betty Yu)

READ:

Kandia Crazy Horse on Indigenous Peoples Day for Guardian UK

Kandia Crazy Horse on Decolonize This Museum & Indigenous Peoples Day in the Village Voice

 

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My Sacred Water Medicine Show – A benefit for Standing Rock in NYC on 10/8 #mniwiconi #NoDAPL

Please join us this Saturday night in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood downtown as I and my fellow indigenous artists & friends from the Brooklyn Country scene sing in support of the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance and in solidarity with the Oceti Sakowin of Standing Rock Reservation and all allied nations of the water protector camps that are defending the Missouri River and Lakota sacred sites out in North Dakota. All of the artists involved & I are committed to standing with Standing Rock until the end. We will also be featuring speakers on the topics of #NoDAPL, the Algonquin pipeline project, the Anti-Mountaintop Removal movement (particularly important to Morgan O’Kane & I, hailing from Virginia), & other environmental issues affecting Indian Country — some of whom have just returned from the frontline at Standing Rock.

We look forward to seeing you out – be ready to bust some of yer square-dancing moves!

WATER IS LIFE – SOLIDARITY CONCERT @ Decolonize This Place, 55 Walker Street btwn Church & Broadway, NYC |  6pm doors, 7pm show | $10 suggested donation

ft. KANDIA CRAZY HORSE (Pamunkey)

EBONY HILLBILLIES (Catawba)

LONNIE HARRINGTON (Seminole)

MORGAN O’KANE

ALEX BATTLES

BEJIKE LUIS SANAKORI RAMOS+BAND OF TAINOS (Taino)

& TINA EAGLE WOMAN JOHNSON (Tsalagi)

+ SPECIAL GUESTS

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Throwback Thursday: Chief Arvol Looking Horse & Kandia Crazy Horse

On Tuesday night in the West Village, I had the great honor of hearing spiritual leader Chief Arvol Looking Horse & his lovely wife Mrs. Paula of the Cheyenne River Reservation speak at Indigenous Voices. The stories they both shared expressed a great depth of wisdom & compassion as well as some worry for indigenous futures. As we continue to stand with Standing Rock and aid the water protectors for the long haul through this winter, there is a lot to think about, act on, and — as Mrs. Paula said — learn to pray centered from our umbilical cords rather than our trickster hearts.

I am still processing all that I learned from them & heard about the frontline in Standing Rock, so I will offer forth more this Saturday night at my Standing Rock benefit in lower Manhattan — Water Is Life – Solidarity Concert — and in the weeks to come (including during Indigenous Day of Remembrance @ Central Park where I shall be sharing songs & ceremony).

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Indigenous Day of Remembrance 2016 in NYC

Annually, I represent for my Pamunkey Ancestors, my dear mother who has walked on & kin @ the Indigenous Day of Remembrance, which is held in Central Park across from Columbus Circle (which contains the statue of the Italian explorer). I am part of the movement to have the Indigenous Day ratified nationally, as part of my activism in Indian Country & beyond. Join us in ceremonies next Sunday the 9th — after my Sacred Water Medicine Show benefit for Standing Rock on Saturday night, 10/8 — @ noon by the 59th Street entrance to the Park (across from Time Warner Center). I will be there, along with my good friends Behike Luis Ramos & Brooke Keiahani Rodriguez, Taino leaders of Eagle & Condor Community Center in Queens who sponsor the event & have been active with me in the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance – A’ho*

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Sacred Water Medicine Show in NYC on 10/8 @ 7pm #NoDAPL

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Dear Family, Friends, Followers & Folks – Come on out to the Standing Rock benefit concert that I conceived, curated & will perform at on Saturday, October 8th, in Manhattan @ Decolonize This Place, 55 Walker Street, 7pm (doors 6pm), $10 suggested donation. We will be having an evening of indigenous musicians and visual artists coming together with our allied friends from the Brooklyn Country scene to sing, dance, speak about the pipeline resistance & generally raise a joyful noise standing in solidarity with the Standing Rock Oceti Sakowin, united Native nations from across America, and their allies as they winterize to combat the Bakken project afflicting sacred burial sites, the Standing Rock reservation, and lands and water all along the Missouri River.

The featured performers:

Kandia Crazy Horse (Pamunkey)

Ebony Hillbillies (Catawba)

Morgan O’Kane

Alex Battles

Lonnie Harrington (Seminole)

Luis Sanakori Ramos+Band of Tainos (Taino)

& Special Guests including Jana Brownbear, Anastasia McAllister, Bianca Dagga & More

Emcee/speaker: Tina Eagle Woman Johnson of Cherokee Language & Cultural Circle NYC

Facebook evite: Water Is Life – Solidarity Concert

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img_0436 Henrique Prince of Ebony Hillbillies (@the recent Harlem Hoedown) (credit: Kandia Crazy Horse)


Kandia Crazy Horse x Decolonize This Place NYC

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Kandia Crazy Horse (left) & Amy from Decolonize This Place @ the opening launch in TriBeCa – Amongst the many great allies I have met up with during my engagement with the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance, I include Amy (above), Brotha Amir Husain & the rest of the gang from the new Manhattan artists & revolutionary action space, Decolonize This Place. They will be hosting ongoing actions and events at their space including my own Sacred Water Medicine Show on Saturday, October 8th, 2016 @ 7pm. Check them out on Facebook to see their scheduling. We really connected at the #NoDAPL rally in Washington Square Park in early September, and will continue to be united in the pipeline resistance amongst other pressing causes affecting Indian Country, Palestine, the Boogiedown Bronx, and beyond


The next Hudson Canyon Sing: Sunday, September 6th in Brooklyn, NY

Join us for a fine African-Native American frolic upSouth in Prospect Heights next Sunday afternoon @ 4:30pm, between the 69th Annual Shinnecock Nation Powwow on Long Island & the Federation of Black Cowboys’ cookout in The Hole. Featuring AfroKelt & Native artists: Tess Reese (Choctaw), Johnny Jackpot, Kandia Crazy Horse (Pamunkey)

HCS 9-6ALL FRIENDS & FAMILY MOST WELCOME!


On the Radio!

Evan Taylor on drums

Evan Taylor on drums

Me in front of the booth (w/ DJ Duane just visible) after my interview

Me in front of the booth (w/ DJ Duane just visible) after my interview

Johnny w/ banjo & "His master's voice"

Johnny w/ banjo & “His master’s voice”


Kandia Crazy Horse & the Spirit of ’76 live taping on New Jersey’s WFMU

#FollowFriday #fbf >>>>—–)))—> From earlier this week, via ANA group; we had a fine ole time during my live taping in Jersey City on DJ Duane Harriott’s (Bim Marx/Negroclash/Other Music) radio show. Dig it: “On this week’s Duane Train, we shine a Native Artist spotlight on Kandia Crazy Horse, a country & western / Native Americana artist who is Pamunkey. Kandia (pictured doin’ it in the Park, oh yeah) & her band the Spirit of ’76 will talk about the meta-Afrolachian source of her sounds, perform live here in the WFMU studio, and share her love of vinyl collecting out of the Laurel Canyon & southern deeps.” Tune in 8/26, 12-3pm @ 91.1 FM in Jersey City, NY / 90.1 FM Hudson Valley, NY – or online @ WFMU.org | kandiacrazyhorse.com | T: @kandiacrazyhoss | IG: @kandiacrazyhorse          

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