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Bear Fox
Bear Fox
Bear Fox is a Mohawk woman of the wolf clan in Ahkwesasne. She is an accomplished singer, songwriter, and storyteller, who has produced more than half a dozen CDs of traditional songs, and collaborations she has developed with her singing group, The Ahkwesahsne Women Singers. After a tragic fire burned down her home, the family could barely make ends meet. It was through the Mohawk songs Bear Fox translated into English that she was able to help her family recover and survive. She is now a multiple Native American Music Award winner; with several albums which include: “Life Blanket,” “Gifts,” “Rich Girl,” & “Diamond”. She lives on the Ahkwesahsne Reserve, which spans the border between Northern New York State and Canada.
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Famoro Dioubate
Famoro Dioubate
Famoro Dioubate was born in Guinea, West Africa, and is the heir of Africa’s legendary bala master, the late El Hadj Djeli Sory Kouyate. Famoro is a grand Djeli, a living library of West African music and culture, and the one bala player who carries Sory Kouyate’s legacy. Famoro is widely sought after as a composer and arranger for countless West African and world music artists because of his extensive knowledge and talent in composition and arrangement, as well as immense archives of traditional, classical music of West Africa. No one stands more central as “keeper of the torch” for Djeliya than Famoro Dioubate. Famoro lives in New York and travels and performs internationally.
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