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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Composition: “Have Hope” Composer & Performer: Jennifer Kreisberg Co-produced by Jennifer Kreisberg and Roger Arnold Sound Engineer: Roger Arnold, Horizon Studios, West Haven, CT Background Vocals: Michelle St. John Motion Picture: Unnatural & Accidental http://www.myspace.com/jenniferkreisberg
February 20, 2007
With the launch of her solo career, Jennifer Kreisberg wins a Genie Award
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television held its’ 27th Annual Genie Awards in Toronto, Canada on February 13, 2007. The Genie is the Canadian equivalent of the Oscars in the U.S. For over 25 years, its mandate has been to honor outstanding achievements; to heighten public awareness and appreciation of Canadian film and television productions; and to encourage the highest standards of film and television production in Canada.
Unnatural & Accidental produced by Carl Bessai, is a dramatized film version of Marie Clements'(Dene) stage play The Unnatural and Accidental Woman which is inspired by the true story of the drowning deaths of ten Native women in Vancouver, BC (Due to a prolific serial killer). The coroner labeled each death, “unnatural and accidental.” The street date for the DVD release of Unnatural & Accidental is scheduled for April 3, 2007.
Known for her high reaching vocals, Jennifer Kreisberg singer/composer was born and raised in Connecticut and still resides there with her husband and son when she is not on the road singing as part of the critically acclaimed Native Women’s Trio Ulali. Being a member of the trio for over seventeen years, Jennifer’s work with them has taken her all over the world and extensively throughout Indian Country. As part of the trio, she has contributed to the soundtrack for the TBS series The Native Americans and subsequently contributed to two songs on the Robbie Robertson's album of the same name. Also as a member of the trio, Jennifer contributed music to the Showtime hit series The L Word and to the soundtrack of the motion picture Smoke Signals; co-writing and co-performing on the song “Wah jhi le yihm.” She has appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno; been a recipient of the “Eagle Achievement Award”, the highest award for outstanding contribution to Native Community and Arts, from the Native American Film Institute in San Francisco; been honored with the key to the city of Greensboro, North Carolina. and a winner of the “Native Women's Recognition Award” from Ganondagon (a New York State historic site on the location of a major 17th-century Seneca town and granary that is referred to the “Town of Peace” and revered and protected as the burial site of the “Mother of Nations”).
Jennifer has shared the stage with such performers as Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, Richie Havens, Sting, and many others. She has performed at such venues as Woodstock 94, the Smithsonian Institute – National Museum of the American Indian, 1996 & 2002 Olympics, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, New Orleans Jazz Festival, and the Hollywood Bowl (for the Dalai Lama). She also performed in the Vagina Monologues at Madison Square Garden and in the Vagina Monologues film.
Jennifer made a guest appearance as ‘Salmon Girl’ in Sherman Alexie's film The Business of Fancy Dancing. The soundtrack features her singing the “Deer Song,” which she composed in 1997 for the Aboriginal Women's Voices project in Banff, Canada. She can also be heard on two other tracks including “Osinilshatin,” featuring Michelle St. John, for which Jennifer composed the melody and produced and sang on the track.
Jennifer is a Core Advisory member of the First Nations Composers Initiative. Most recently, she is a recipient of the 2007 Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Artist Fellowship grant, for music composition. With a voice that can only be described as “powerfully riveting,” Jennifer’s soaring wide-range vocals and hauntingly beautiful harmonies brings to life the sounds of our ancestors in a way that no other can. Just take a listen yourself – sit back, close your eyes and you will be taken back into time, to a place filled with peace and joy. On the Net: www.myspace.com/jenniferkreisberg
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TORONTO,
CANADA – Jennifer Kreisberg (Tuscarora), the youngest member of
Ulali, the first Native female a cappella trio of its kind, wins a
Genie Award for “Achievement in Music – Original Song” for her song
“Have Hope.” She both composed and performed the song for the
motion picture Unnatural and Accidental. The song also
received the “Critics Pick” from the New York Times. “Have
Hope” will be included in her soon to be released solo album
entitled WAH THYE YEH RAK (She mixed it, Tuscarora Language).