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JOY HARJO, a member of the Mvskoke Nation and the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, has been performing music with her poetry since the early 1990’s when she founded the reggae-tribal-jazz-rock band, Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice.
Since her first album, a spoken word classic, Letter From the End of the Twentieth Century (2003), and her 1998 solo album, Native Joy for Real, she has received numerous awards and recognitions for her music, including a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the year for her 2008 album, Winding Through the Milky Way. I Pray for My Enemies, produced with Barrett Martin of Sunyata Records is Joy Harjo’s seventh and newest album.
Harjo performs with her saxophone and flutes, solo and with pulled-together players she often calls the Arrow Dynamics Band. She has performed with guitarist Larry Mitchell, bass player Rene Camacho, Oliver Lake’s band, bass player Michael Davis from MC5, Keith Stoutenberg, and many others. She has performed in Europe, South America, India, and Africa, as well as for a range of North American stages, including the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, the Cultural Olympiad at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, DEF Poetry Jam, and the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
Joy is the author of nine books of poetry, two memoirs, as well as children's books, plays, and a musical. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Since her first album, a spoken word classic, Letter From the End of the Twentieth Century (2003), and her 1998 solo album, Native Joy for Real, she has received numerous awards and recognitions for her music, including a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the year for her 2008 album, Winding Through the Milky Way. I Pray for My Enemies, produced with Barrett Martin of Sunyata Records is Joy Harjo’s seventh and newest album.
Harjo performs with her saxophone and flutes, solo and with pulled-together players she often calls the Arrow Dynamics Band. She has performed with guitarist Larry Mitchell, bass player Rene Camacho, Oliver Lake’s band, bass player Michael Davis from MC5, Keith Stoutenberg, and many others. She has performed in Europe, South America, India, and Africa, as well as for a range of North American stages, including the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, the Cultural Olympiad at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, DEF Poetry Jam, and the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
Joy is the author of nine books of poetry, two memoirs, as well as children's books, plays, and a musical. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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