Bring Your Drum: Radio Documentary Explores 50 Years of Indigenous Protest Music
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Writer, poet, radio broadcaster, and artist Janet Rogers has produced a new radio documentary exploring the sounds of Indigenous protest music that aired on CBC Radio's Inside the Music.
A Mohawk from Six Nations, Janet is entrenched in Indigenous music culture.
Her weekly Indigenous music radio show "Native Waves" airs on CFUV in Victoria, she's a regular columnist for BC Musician Magazine and her own work encompasses all media as a writer, performer and visual artist.
Her new radio documentary, Bring Your Drum, features an incredlibe lineup of interviews with:
John Trudell Alanis Obomsawin Taiaiake Alfred Brian Wright McLeod George Leach Elaine Bomberry Murray Porter Swil Kanim Savage Family
And protest songs by:
Floyd Redcrow Westerman Buffy Sainte Marie Peter Lafarge Willie Dunn Tru Rez Crew 7th Fire Sherri Maracle Lucie Idlout
The documentary aired July 3, 2011 on CBC Radio 2 - Inside the Music.
Listen to the full audio of the broadcast: Bring Your Drum [AUDIO]
