Canadian Inuit Throat Singing, Performed by Kathleen Merritt and Charlotte Qamaniq

The 2018 Native American Arts Festival, Beyond “Language”: Indigenous Art & Expression, features artists, scholars and tribal community members who will look at the many layers of language and artistic expression. Often coined by anthropologists and linguists as “ethnopoetics,” this form of expression treats the relationship between performance and text as experimentation, resulting in rare and unique connections outside the Western tradition. By Illustrating that ideas and language are highly nuanced and not easily translated across cultures, we gain new insights into the particularities of cultural expression.
2018 FESTIVAL CONSULTANTS
Joe Baker (Delaware), Director, Palos Verdes Art Center
Gerald Clarke, Jr. (Cahuilla), Artist, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside
Heather Companiott, Program Director
2018 FESTIVAL WEEK GUESTS
Final Performance: Canadian Inuit Throat Singers, Kathleen Merritt and Charlotte Qamaniq; and the Mt. Cahuilla Birdsingers
Exhibit: Jennifer Vigil and Mique’l Dangeli, co-curators, artwork by Shan Goshorn, Maria Hupfield, Alison Marks, Marianne Nicolson, Shelley Niro, Sallyann Paschall, Lyn Risling, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie Tania Williard
Lectures: Dr. Wesley Leonard, Randy Redroad, Paul Chaat Smith
Chef/Food Tastings: Freddie Bitsoie
Gratitude to our Generous Sponsors: San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, Anonymous Foundation, The Chickasaw Nation, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Tribal Alliance of Sovereign Indian Nations (TASIN), The Soboba Foundation/Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians, Cahuilla Band of Indians, San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians
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[@IKhanNot]

Great performance. Seen both of them performing here in Canada.

[@paulinaherrera3598]

Awesome

[@holgerdanske3960]

Maybe a great performance, but - sorry to say - sounds to me like burping and a kind of grunting. Ok I'm do not want to be disrespectful, but that's the way I hear this.