The Jim Pepper Native Art's Council presents "A Tribute to John Trudell"

Doors at 7:00 | Show at 8:00

All ages are welcome.

Free parking is available in the lot across the street until full.

Longtime songwriter & activist friends David Huckfelt (formerly of The Pines) and Annie Humphrey (Leech Lake Ojibwe) have been teaming up for a decade in their shared mission to fuse hard-hitting songs and performances with social & environmental justice issues.  Each a revered songwriter and recording artist in their own right, David & Annie have teamed up for performances from a pontoon boat on the Mississippi River with The Indigo Girls to the acclaimed “Water Is Life” festival in Duluth, MN with Bon Iver, Ani Difranco, Hippo Campus and more.  Camping out at the intersection of storytelling, poetry, and folk song both traditional and contemporary, these two Midwestern singer-songwriters have eight records between them, hundred of performances all across Turtle Island, and a shared ethic rooted in community, activism, and the guiding inspiration of their time working with John Trudell.  

https://www.anniehumphreymusic.com/

Growing up on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota, Annie lived in a home filled with voices made of thunder and nothing could stop it. Her parents were brilliant people individually. Her father, a singer and musician and her mother an artist and poet. Together they made sadness. Each of her parents taught Annie the beautiful things they knew. They showed her that she carried their gifts in her hands too. This is how creating art and music came about for her. This is what saved her. This is how she lives now.

Things my dad taught me: skin a deer, set net, clean fish, make maple syrup, harvest wild rice, play basketball, ride motorcycle, go without if you can't afford it, play guitar

Things my mom taught me: draw, paint, sew, write, laugh, wonder, forgive

Annie has 4 children and 2 grandsons. She has a handsome, Indian, horseman husband. They inspire her spirit and her art.

“Journeys of feeling

her song her voice

reflecting spirit

Story telling

People’s story

Woman’s story

Helping the music

to remember

what is real

Ancestor memories

Dealing with nows

Shadow worlds

An Ancient way

For the healing

A woman sings ”

— JOHN TRUDELL

ON ANNIE’S NEW RECORD “The Light In My Bones”

Acclaimed Anishinaabe singer, songwriter, and environmental activist Annie Humphrey is pleased to announce the upcoming release of her new record “The Light In My Bones” with a tour of the upper Midwest this October and November. Joined by longtime allies and collaborators David Huckfelt (singer-songwriter and folk-activist) and Jeremy Ylvisaker (guitarist, producer, multi-media artist), “The Light In My Bones” Tour will bring music, stories, community, and an all-inclusive spirit of celebration and protection for Mother Earth to schools, churches, music venues, Tribal colleges and reservation halls across Minnesota and Wisconsin. In addition to evening concerts at local venues, most of which benefit regional social service organizations, Honor the Earth will also be presenting a series of day-time community art engagement activities in each city around the themes of sustainability, conservation, treaty rights and our shared interconnectedness. “The purpose of this project and tour is to gather and create and be coherent together. To rise up and recognize the very real power within each of us.”, writes Annie Humphrey.

“When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.” - John Trudell

“The Light In My Bones” was recorded in a lightning-quick live session by Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Paul Simon, Ani Difranco) at The Hive in Eau Claire, WI, and produced by multi-instrumentalist and renowned guitarist Jeremy Ylvisaker (Andrew Bird, Jenny Lewis, Grace Potter). The record features contributions by Bon Iver drummer & vocalist Sean Carey, Minnesota bassist Liz Draper (Iris Dement, Charlie Parr), Warm Springs Nation singer and John Trudell collaborator Quiltman, guitarist Mark Shark, Minneapolis folk singer David Huckfelt, Iranian-born vocalist Aida Shahghasemi and more. The new work features 11 new songs filled to the brim with powerful Earth-first urgency, with Annie’s off-the-grid and off-the-cuff immediacy entwined and elevated by stunning musicianship and lush production.

Growing up on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota, Annie lived in a home filled with voices made of thunder with an unstoppable connection to spirit and her ancestors. “My parents were brilliant people individually, but together they made sadness. Each of them taught me the beautiful things they knew. My dad taught me how to skin a deer, set net, clean fish, make maple syrup, harvest wild rice, ride a motorcycle and play guitar. My mom taught me to draw, paint, sew, write, laugh, wonder and forgive. They both taught me how to go without when you can't afford things. They showed me that I carried their gifts in my hands too. This is how creating art and music came about for me. This is what saved me. This is how I live now.”

More info on “The Light In My Bones” is available at https://www.anniehumphreymusic.com/

https://www.davidhuckfelt.com/

David Huckfelt is a singer/ lyricist /activist and founding frontman of Minneapolis indie-folk cult favorites The Pines. An Iowa native and former theology student, Huckfelt attended the Iowa Writers Workshop before turning his attention to songwriting and performing. With improvisational mastery, Huckfelt’s shows and songs of no-spiritual-surrender have earned him a devoted following from small-town opera houses & theaters to national festival stages like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Edmonton and Calgary Folk Fests, and the legendary First Avenue mainroom, sharing stages with Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, Bon Iver, Calexico, Trampled By Turtles & more. An early encounter and collaboration with radical Native American poet John Trudell introduced Huckfelt as friend & partner to an array of Indigenous artists & activists including Winona LaDuke, Louise Erdrich, & Keith Secola, working for climate justice and tribal sovereignty under the banner of music + resistance. With roots in the same fertile Midwestern soil that produced legendary folk singers like John Prine and Greg Brown, David's new solo work preserves a rugged optimism that blasts through layers of dark in real time with songs that speak volumes, soft & clear.

Renowned Native Singer, Drummer, Composer, & Water Protector Quiltman Sahme (Warm Springs) and celebrated Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer, Author & Educator Mark Shark have been creating, recording and performing for audiences around the world for more than three decades. As two founding members of award-winning Poet/Artist/Activist John Trudell’s (Santee Sioux) band “Bad Dog” they have been fortunate to have shared the stage and studio with some of their own personal heroes during their long storied career: Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Jesse Ed Davis, Taj Mahal, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and many others. Quilt and Mark are now thrilled to be joining forces with their longtime talented friends Annie Humphrey and David Huckfeldt for this very special show.

For more information on Mark Shark please visit: TaoofTunings.com

Host or Publisher Alberta Abbey