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The sounds of native peoples

| 29 Sep 2011 | 01:12
    The sounds of native peoples

Dingmans Ferry — Spring has returned to the Delaware Valley. It brings with it the sounds of the land and its native peoples in spoken word,music and song when Kindred Spirits Arts Programs presents ‘ Native Sounds Are Back’ on Sunday May 4, 2008 at the Pocono Environmental Education Center. Featured in this celebration of nature’s rebirth are pianist and composer David Amram accompanied by his friends, singer-musician, Victorio Roland Vargas Moussa, and native musicians, dancers and story tellers, Matoaka Little Eagle and Powhatan Swift Eagle. Since the 1950’s, the multi-talented David Amram has embraced a variety of musical styles, and a wide range of cultural traditions in his quest to reveal the universal and the eternal. He has collaborated with the likes of Jack Kerouac, Langston Hughes, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Willie Nelson, and Tito Puente. Currently he is working on a new setting of the Mass, the’ Missa Manhattan’ with author Frank McCourt. Fore more artists’ details visit www.kindredspiritsprograms.org The performance is sure to be a spontaneous and varied celebration of the Great Swirl of Life in this season of renewal. The concert starts at 3 p.m. in PEEC’s strikingly beautiful Visitors’ Activity Center located on PEEC’s campus within The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, and is the perfect setting for a program devoted to the wonders of nature as expressed in Native Cultures. To enhance the experience, a pre-concert nature hike will be held at 1:30 p.m. to discover the sights and sounds of spring. Participants are reminded to wear comfortable hiking boots and bring lots of water. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children age 7 to 11, and students with a valid Student ID. Children age 6 and under are admitted free. Tickets can be purchased at Born To Be, located in Forest Hall on the corner of Broad and Harford Streets Milford or at The Pocono Environmental Education Center in Dingmans’ Ferry. For reservations call 570 296 4299 or 570 828 2319. Visit www.peec.org .