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"Best Wishes for a a speedy recovery
From: Cyd Crue, NCRSM
Copyright © 1999 NCRSM
Champaign, IL. - The National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media (NCRSM) wishes respected Native American musician, actor and activist, Floyd Red Crow Westerman a speedy recovery and regrets not having its newly established Chairman at the NCRSM's third annual symposium "Mending the Circle". Westerman, suffering from upper respiratory complications, will not be able to perform at the benefit concert to take place Sunday October 17th, 1999, from 7 to 10 PM at the Urbana High School Auditorium, 1002 S. Race St, Urbana, Illinois (please note the change of venue from previous release). Instead, the audience will be able to enjoy the poetry and "heartspeak" of John Trudell, as well as the scheduled performances by Ulali, a trio of Native American women, and Julian B, a Native American rap artist.Identified as a poet, a leader for Native American Rights, a powerful speaker, and an "extremely effective" communicator, John Trudell calls himself "a blue Indian." Trudell is an accomplished poet and musician, and his newest release, Blue Indians, was produced by long-time friend Jackson Browne and released on his own imprint Dangerous Discs in Browne's Inside Recordings. "I see a real future for spoken word with music. Poetry is based on the oldest oral traditions. In music, lyrics are written to what the math of the music allows us to say; poetry is what we need to say. And to me...it's a canyon worth of difference", explains Trudell.
In addition, Trudell was cast in two movies, one fictional (Thunderheart) and one documentary (Incident At Oglala) - both dealing with Indian clashes with the U.S. government during the 1970's. Most recently, in 1998, Trudell was cast as the Radio DJ, in Sherman Alexie's award winning Sundance film, Smoke Signals.
For more information, contact: Paula Ostrovsky or Cyd Crue,
NCRSM-IL, Co-coordinators.
Phone: 217-840-6594 or 217-355-6757
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