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Didn't know she was still at it--this brings back memories.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/22/singing-her-own-song-decades-buffy-sainte-marie-picks-prestigious-prize
Cree First Nation singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie, 74, is the 2015 winner of Canada's Polaris Music Prize, bestowed annually by a jury of music critics, bloggers, and broadcasters to one album deemed to have the most "artistic merit" regardless of genre, sales, or label.
Sainte-Marie's album Power in the Bloodher 21stbeat nine other finalists for the award, including rapper Drake, former Polaris winner Caribou, and Toronto rock band Alvvays. The Polaris prize comes with a $50,000 award.
"I've got an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, a couple of Junos and a Gemini Awardthis is the only one I ever heard that gives the artist money," she said upon accepting the prize. "It's real important, it's becoming almost impossible for an artist to tour with a band and with instruments."
The artist developed her sound in Toronto and New York City's Greenwich Village as part of the early- to mid-1960s folk scene, often alongside other emerging Canadian contemporaries such as Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell. Her songs have addressed everything from war and peace to Indigenous rights to the vapidity of show business.
"Ms. Sainte-Marie's album, which ranges in genre from blues to rockabilly, is the most overtly activist album to win in Polariss history," writes the Globe and Mail. "It includes songs such as 'The Uranium War' and modified versions of UB40s 'Sing Our Own Song,' and Alabama 3s 'Power in the Blood,' which chastise corporate greed and support the Idle No More movement."
artislife
(9,497 posts)hmm. memories.
madamesilverspurs
(15,800 posts)And one of my favorite thrift-store discoveries is the large book of her music, pictures, stories, commentaries. Lots of personal stuff included, autobiographical in a way. And it cost me 75 cents.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)The Circle Game
left on green only
(1,484 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)For some reason, I've always associated the song with Buffy Sainte-Marie.
bananas
(27,509 posts)From a photo caption with the article: