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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 8, 2007
Moving towards
her solo career, Jennifer Kreisberg wins
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 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. 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
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NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK – Jennifer Kreisberg (Tuscarora), the
youngest member of Ulali, the first Native female a cappella trio of
its kind, wins a NAMMY (Native American Music Award) for
“Song/Single of the Year” for her song “Have Hope”. She
both composed and performed the song for the motion picture
Unnatural and Accidental. The song also received the “Genie
Award” (Canadian Oscar) for “Achievement in Music – Original
Song” from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and 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).
