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Contact: S. Meisha Kreisberg Tel. (860) 229-2116 Cell Phone: (860) 833-8632 Email: smeisha@aol.com
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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 http://www.jenniferkreisberg.com
October 27, 2007
Jennifer Kreisberg, Hartford native nominated for an Independent Music Award
The Independent Music Awards (IMA’s) is an International program that helps Indie artists overcome mainstream obstacles and reach wider audiences. In its’ seventh year, the IMA’s received over 45,000 submissions from all over the world. Not billed as a contest, the program provides year-long promotion, marketing and distribution opportunities that place IMA Winners and Finalists in front of millions of music fans & industry decision makers around the world. Winners and Finalists of the 7th Annual IMA program will be promoted throughout 2008. The Native American Music Awards held its’ Ninth Annual Native American Music Awards in Niagara Falls at the Seneca Casino & Resort on October 6, 2007. The Native American Music Awards were established in 1998 as the first and only national Awards show in the world honoring Native American and Aboriginal music and continues to proudly honor the outstanding musical achievements of Native American artists from across the country in over thirty Award categories.
As part of the trio, she has contributed to the soundtrack for the TBS series The Native Americans and subsequently contributed 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”).
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.
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. She sings a song in the upcoming PBS/National Geographic children's production Momma Mirabelle. Jennifer is also featured alone and with Ulali on the soundtrack of the upcoming Canadian television film Elijah.
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, the Native Arts Grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts and a grant from the First Nations Composers Initiative, both for her solo CD project. Her much anticipated debut solo album titled Wah Thye Yeh Rak (She Mixed It Tuscarora language) is due out this winter. Jennifer is collaborating with Tuscarora (NC) Activist, Actor, and Artist Christopher Lowry for the Tuscarora language translations on her upcoming album. She is also teaming up with renowned Creek/Cherokee/Seminole painter Dana Tiger for the album cover artwork. 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
#### If you'd like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Jennifer Kreisberg, please call Meisha Kreisberg at 860/833-8632 or e-mail Meisha at smeisha@aol.com
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