DOWNLOAD: The Wake Singers - "Crazy Eyes"

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The lo-fi, rock/folk sound is an aesthetic that comes to The Wake Singers out of necessity. "We don't have a lot of resources at our disposal [so] we make do with what we got" says the trio of cousins, Doug, Mike and Marty Two Bulls (Oglala Lakota), originally from Red Shirt Table, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. They formed the band while attending art school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and they sent us a few tracks to check out. They make not be working with much, but we think what they've got is a good thing.  DOWNLOAD: The Wake Singers - "Crazy Eyes"

#PowwowWednesday: Portraits from Pine Ridge Powwow

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It's #PowwowWednesday! Thanks to an article in National Geographic, I was led to a feast of fantastic portraits and photos of Oglala Lakota Nation's Pine Ridge Powwow.

The Oglala Lakota Nation powwow takes place on the Pine Ridge Reservation outside Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Ross McDermott and Andrew Owen documented their experience of being welcomed by the people of Pine Ridge for their American Festivals Project with numerous, stunning portraits -

- and the beautiful photoset A Surface Below:

Amazing, right? There's even more to pour over at americanfestivalsproject.net. Beautiful.