Celebrating 60 Years of Native American Music
with "Traditions & Transformations"

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Take Advantage of our Christmas Special

Take Advantage of our Christmas Special

To celebrate Christmas, when you buy 2 featured titles, you can pick a FREE album as our gift to you this Holiday Season! Click here for full details!

03 Aug 2011

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Bring Nakai home for the Holidays!

Bring Nakai home for the Holidays!

For a limited time—November 25 through December 9—buy any of the CDs on this page exclusively at changinghands.com and R. Carlos Nakai will personalize them for you. We'll ship anywhere in the United States, and to most...

03 Aug 2011

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Multimedia Library

Aaron White & Anthony Wakeman perform a track from their album Handprints of Our People at Changing Hands Bookstore. To view more videos from Canyon Records artists visit our Media Library.

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Flutes & Hoops at the MIM
Flutes & Hoops at The Musical Instrument Museum
Enjoy the haunting sound of the Native American flute & the stories in dance expressed through the hoops. World championship hoop dancer Tony Duncan will be featured with his ensemble Estun-Bah, plus award winning Anthony Wakeman & Aaron White. To purchase tickets & for more info visit themim.org.
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February Special
True, Round Dance Songs by Wayne Silas, Jr.
Canyon celebrates Valentine's Day with free shipping within the US and Canada for orders containing any of the following featured titles:



Loving Ways - A. Paul Ortega & Joanne Shenandoah
True - Wayne Silas, Jr.
Love - Kevin Yazzie
Moonlit Taj - Bina & Pranav Mehta
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American Indian Arts Fest at Casa Grande

American Indian Arts Fest at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument on Saturday and Sunday, February 11 and 12, 2012 with performances by Aaron White & Anthony Wakeman and Gabriel Ayala & Will Clipman. For more details click here.

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Nakai, Eaton, & Clipman in Concert
Holiday concert with Nakai, Eaton & Clipman at Changing Hands Bookstore
R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman come together to perform selections from Winter Dreams & their Grammy nominated album Dancing into Silence by Nakai, Eaton & Clipman at Changing Hands Bookstore Dec.13, at 7pm. Watch the performance live via Ustream (ustream.tv)
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Grammy's & Native American Music

When the first Grammy for Best Native American Music was awarded in 2000, it immediately became a symbol that Native American musical expressions were to be valued and publicly honored with the same care and attention as the most dominant forms of music in our society. By establishing this category, NARAS sent a message of acceptance and respect, “You, the first Americans, are welcome as equals. We choose to recognize that what you do has been of importance within your own community, and is now also important to our entire society”.

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60 Years of Native American Music

Canyon Records of Phoenix, Arizona,  producer and distributor of Native American music, is one of the oldest cultural institutions in the state of Arizona, and one of the oldest independent record labels in the music industry. In October 2011, Canyon Records begins celebration of its 60th anniversary titled “Traditions and Transformations”. This landmark anniversary will be celebrated with a concert series at the Musical Instrument Museum, a Native American song and dance festival at the Mesa Arts Center, a special showcase at the Heard Museum Guild Indian Art Fair & Market, and a series of specially packaged recordings celebrating its history and Native American music. Read more...

 

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COMING SOON!

Join host Alan di Perna on a journey through music from every continent, far and near, old and new, from the folkloric to the funky. Enjoy musical genres ranging from bollywood to bossa nova, reggae to rai, cajun to conjunto, mbaqanga to mariachi, sake songs to sacred chants, New Age to Native American. 

The Global Gallery: Uniting the world through music

 

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