Thunder Bird Sisters to Perform at "Turning
2000: A Millennial Weekend" Event Slated for October 16
at C.W. Post
Performing artists The Thunder Bird Sisters are scheduled
to appear Saturday,
October 16 at a major celebration of the new millennium -- "Turning
2000: A
Millennial Weekend," taking place at the C.W. Post Campus
of Long Island
University in Brookville on October 15, 16 and 17, 1999.
The Thunderbird Sisters -- featuring Rebecca Genia, Donna
Collins, Holly
Davis, Tina Tarrant, and brother, Ben Haile, grandchildren of
Chief Thunder
Bird -- are an unique group of musicians, singers and writers.
Their music
includes original compositions that reflect their culture. As
indigenous
people (they are blood members of the Shinnecock Nation, and
reside on the
Shinnecock Indian Reservation near Southampton), they are storytellers,
singing of traditional ways of life in the Natural World and
our sacred
connection to Creation.
The Thunder Bird Sisters' music offers a commentary on social
issues that
have historically faced their people, and continue to confront
Indian people
to this day. For over 25 years, the group has traveled nationally
and
internationally, sharing their "Songs of the Struggle."
The blending harmony
expresses the relatedness of all things. In addition to their
original music,
they also perform the works of various other artists. In all
their music, the
Thunder Bird Sisters seek to personify the Native
proverb, "Walk in Beauty."
The Thunder Bird Sister's performance is one of more than
40 events scheduled
for Turning 2000: A Millennial Weekend. The three-day conference
will feature
lectures, discussions, exhibits and theatrical performances that
probe the
future of evolution, the arts and culture, technology, politics,
health care,
the environment, spiritual life and education. Keynote speakers
are Oliver
Sacks, Stephen Jay Gould, Danny Hillis, Anna Deavere Smith, and
Harold Bloom.
Admission fees are: three-day full weekend pass: $100; two-day
pass: $80;
one-day pass: $40. C.W. Post is located on Northern Boulevard
(Route 25A),
Brookville, New York (exit 41N off the LIE). For more information
call (516)
299-2700
For more information call the C.W. Post
Public Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu or send
mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
