In Celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day, E-YAH-PAH-HAH: Native American Concert of Music and Dance

Featuring the ECMS Woodwind Quintet led by Kae Wilbert (Cherokee). Musicians, Kae Wilbert (bassoon), Susan Walders (flute), Heather Staring Melnick (French Horn), Scott Horsington (clarinet) and Darren Pulley (oboe) and the Daystar Dance Company with original choreography by Daystar/Rosalie Jones (Pembina Chippewa-Cree) and a company of four dancers. Dancers, Nanako Horikawa Mandrino, Nancy Hughes, Angela Lopez and Laura D’Amico

Highlighted will be the music of contemporary Native American composers Dr. Louis W. Ballard(Cherokee/Quapaw), Ms. Dawn Avery (Mohawk, Turtle Clan) and Dr. Charles Shadle (Choctaw). Daystar Dance Company will round out the program with costumed theatrical dances inspired by the cultural storytelling of the Northwest Coast and of the Great Lakes Region, the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee.