Blues Piano with Murray Porter
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording
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content: 2024 July 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2024, Item SFF2024_0701_IVA_OurVoices_0001
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copy available
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content: Elaine Bomberry (Anishinaabe/Cayuga, Six Nations of the Grand River (Six Nations)) (Presenter); Murray Porter (piano, vocals, Mohawk, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ontario) Murray Porter (Mohawk, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ontario) is a Juno Award-winning, self-taught blues musician who has developed a unique songwriting style reflecting Indigenous experience and storytelling. Elaine Bomberry (Cayuga/Anishinaabe), also a songwriter, is a trailblazer in the music industry, an award-winning broadcast producer, and an advocate for Indigenous performing artists. They are creators of the "Rez Bluez" series, which since 1993 has presented concerts, radio reportage, workshops, and television programs. They make their home on the Capilano Reserve on the unceded Squamish Nation territory in North Vancouver, British Columbia.