Date: 8/21/2015
Time: 7:00 PM TO 8:30 PM

Museum of Indian Culture
2825 Fish Hatchery Road
Allentown, PA 18103

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Event Description: The Museum of Indian Culture in Allentown is excited to announce a special outdoor concert featuring Grammy-award winner and 13-time Native American Music Award-winner Joanne Shenandoah, Oneida, on August 21, 2015, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Museum of Indian Culture. Admission is $10, members free. Joanne Shenandoah, is one of America’s most celebrated and critically acclaimed Native American musicians. She is a Grammy Award winner, with over 40 music awards and 17 recordings. She has captured the hearts of audiences all over the world, from North and South America, South Africa, Europe, Australia and Korea, with praise for her work to promote universal peace. She is a board member of the Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge Shenandoah has performed for His Holiness the Dali Lama and at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in Italy where she performed an original composition for the celebration for the canonization of the first Native American Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, both in October 2012. Shenandoah has performed at prestigious events such as The White House, Carnegie Hall, 5 Presidential Inaugurations, The Vatican, Madison Square Garden, Bethlehem Fine Arts Center, Palestine, Crystal Bridges Museum, the NMAI-Smithsonian, the Ordway Theater, Hummingbird Centre, Toronto Skydome, The Parliament of the Worlds Religions, (Africa, Spain and Australia) and Woodstock ‘94. Joanne will be performing with her sister, Diane and daughter, Leah. Joanne and Leah recorded on the title track “Path to Zero” with Jim Morrison which also included artists, Sting/Bono, Sinead O’Conner, Robert Downey Jr., and others. This concert is held outside, so please bring your lawn chairs and blankets. To pre-order tickets, please visit Eventbrite.com and search for “Joanne Shenandoah Concert.” You can also visit our website at www.museumofindianculture.org under “Events.” Members will be sent complimentary tickets. For more information, please contact Pat Rivera at 610-797-2121 or email info@museumofindianculture.org. Also visit us on the Web at www.museumofindianculture.org or www.facebook.com/Museum.Indian.Culture. MISSION: The Museum of Indian Culture is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to presenting, preserving, and perpetuating the history and cultural heritage of the Northeastern Woodland Indians and other American Indian tribes.


Directions:
The Museum of Indian Culture is located in the Little Lehigh Parkway on Fish Hatchery Road in Allentown, right down the road from Lehigh Valley Hospital between Cedar Crest Boulevard and 24th Street/Oxford Drive.

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