Have you ever composed a song?
Did this song ever get sung at a powwow?
How and where did you get the inspiration from?
Did you put it on a recorder to save it?
Did you add words to it?
Was it an intertribal or specialty song?...
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07-06-2006, 01:16 PM -
My father is a song maker. His father was a song maker and his father was a song maker. As they passed these songs down, there was no written form of music to learn from. Yet, each knew hundreds of songs. I would estimate my father knows over 600 songs from different tribes and genres that he has stored...02-11-2011, 12:06 PM
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Ever get that special song by your fovorite drum stuck in your head at the wrong time and can't get it out? It happens to all of us at one time or another. Don't you just hate it when it wont stop? Ever try changing songs to make it stop and find it doesn't work?
Let me know your feelings...05-11-2006, 10:38 PM -
I just finished listening to a powerful song that belongs to the late Tom Charging Eagle. YouTube - Midnite Express singing Tom Charging Eagle Song @ GON 2010. In the video, this song was rendered by Midnight Express.
Both Northern and Southern tribes and drum groups compose "personal...03-31-2011, 11:37 AM -
For a few months now, I have been unsuccessful in obtaining a correct phonetic spelling for this Ponca Prayer song. The song that I speak of is on the Millard Clark and Southern Singers cd from the National Veterans Powwow in 1998. I have a somewhat correct translation written down, but was warned...07-20-2006, 01:37 PM