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Buffy Sainte-Marie & Richie Havens
Thursday, November 6,2008
Pantages Playhouse
Tickets $55/$45 plus fees

UPDATE: The Buffy Sainte-Marie & Richie Havens concert slated for November 6 has been cancelled due to the delay of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s new CD release.  Sainte-Marie’s 18th album, Running for the Drum, was originally scheduled to be released this fall.  The tour is expected to be rescheduled for 2009, though details have not yet been set.

Tickets can be refunded at the original point of purchase.

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Digital artist, pacifist, Academy Award-winning songwriter and beloved performer—these are just a few of the hats worn by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Born in 1941 to Cree parents on a Saskatchewan reserve, Sainte-Marie has gone on to become one of the most acclaimed performers of her generation. Besides her Oscar-earning co-write for “Up Where We Belong” (recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes) for the movie An Officer and a Gentleman, Buffy has seen a number of her songs recorded by other artists. These include “Universal Soldier” (Donovan), “Until It’s Time For You to Go” (Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Robert Flack and others) and “Piney Wood Hills” (Bobby Bare). In 2004 Kanye West and Cam’Ron sampled her song “Lazarus” for the hit “Dead Or Alive.” Though much of her music is rooted in traditional songs, both First Nations and folk, she is a pioneer of new media and technology—she recorded her 1969 album Illuminations with an early synthesizer, and began working with Apple computers to record her music and make digital art in the early ’80s. Her latest releases include Running For the Drum, a set of new songs, and Buffy/Changing Woman/Sweet America: The Mid-1970s Recordings, a 2-CD set of reissues. As relevant as ever, the timeless Buffy Sainte-Marie remains a true original, and one of our most passionate, outspoken artists.

A contemporary of Buffy’s, Richie Havens came up in the same coffeehouse circuit before becoming an international star thanks to his opening set at Woodstock. Noted for his guitar skill, Richie has also acted in several films (including, most recently, Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There), composed promos for television networks, and performed at Bill Clinton’s inauguration and the 1999 Tibetan Freedom Concert. Newer artists have recognized Havens’ talent, including Groove Armada, which featured the singer’s soulful vocals—some of the most recognizable in all of pop music—on the 2000 track “Hands of Time,” which was featured in the movies Collateral and Domino. Richie’s new studio album, Nobody Left to Crown (Verve Forecast), features the country-tinged single “The Key.”

Presented by  the Winnipeg Folk Festival Concert Series and LiveNation