Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles’
Best Native American Music Album GRAMMY nominees announced
A decade into the category ‘Best Native American Music Album’, The Recording Academy announces the nominees for ‘Best Native American Music Album’.
- Siyotanka
Michael Brant DeMaria, (Ontos Music)
- Spirit Wind North
Bill Miller, (Cool Springs Music Group)
- True Blue
Northern Cree, (Canyon Records)
- Wind Songs – Native American Flute Solos
John Two-Hawks, (Circle Studios)
- Riders Of The Healing Road,
Johnny Whitehorse, (Silver Wave Records)
The ballots for final round of voting are mailed out December 16th and are due by Jan 8, 2010. So yea, pretty hush hush till the big night.
The 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on Jan. 31, 2010, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in high def TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS from 8–11:30 PM E/P
Congratulations and Good Luck!
A Conversation with Anthony Thosh Collins
Anthony “THOSH” Collins is a photographer from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Arizona and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Thosh works as a freelance photographer in the greater LA area and works extensively with the Native communities locally & internationally. Thosh started doing photography at the age of 15 at The New School for the Arts High School of Scottsdale, Arizona, and later attended the San Francisco Art Institute on a full-ride scholarship. Thosh uses various genres of photography like, portraiture, fashion, editorial as a tool to document contemporary Native peoples and their many talents and the realities of Native people as they strive to help preserve their identities in today’s world.