SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY NEWS

BURNABY / B. C. / V5A 1S6

TELEPHONE (604) 291-3221 R a L EAS a

 

 

   

 

October 7, 1975

IMMEDTATE

ALANIS (EL-LA-NEEZ) OBOMSAWIN, a Canadian Indian singer, composer
and film-maker, will perform in the Simon Fraser University Theatre Wednesday,
October 22 at 8 pm. She will also appear in a free lecture-demonstration
during the Wednesday Noon Show in the SFU Theatre Wednesday at 12:30 pm,

Her unusual program will be drawn from an extensive repertoire of
syllable songs, lullabyes, war Songs, hunting songs, medicine songs, dancing
songs, gambling songs, courting and religious songs, laments and songs for |
different animals. She sings the songs of her tribe, those of other tribes

in other languages, as well as her own compositions, and accompanies herself

 

on the tam tam, or a crécelle (rattle) or bones,
3 Ms. Obomsawin was born in Odanak, an Indian village 75 miles northeast |
of Montreal, and is a "princess" of the Abenaki tribe, She has been singing |
in public for 16 years at schools, universities, prisons, churches, reserves
and various festivals in Canada and the United States, Last spring she
organized an all-native people show as part of the festival in Montreal in

support of the James Bay inhabitants,

     
  

In addition to her numerous public appearances and t across

Canada, she works as a Producer-Director for the Nationa ii ik Montreal,

 

in the education of both Indian and non-Indian children. - <

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Tickets for her evening performance are eet ancauver

Ticket Centre (683-3255), all Eatons outlets and the SFU Box O¥fice (233514),

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Ref: Mary Trainer, Publicity Asst,, Simon Fraser Theatre, 291-3221

 

CA Centre for Communications and the Arts

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