July 27th & 28th, 10am-5pm both days!
This year we are deeply honored to be welcoming Māori artists and performers from New Zealand along with some long time Ganondagan favorites including Native folk and blues rocker, Keith Secola (Anishinabe) & his Wild Band of Indians, hoop dance champions and performers, the Sinquah Family Dance Troupe (Hopi/Tewa/Choctaw), Bill Crouse (Seneca) and Haudenosaunee social dancers, Allegany River Indian Dancers, and storytellers Ronnie Reitter (Seneca, Wolf Clan) & Perry Ground (Onondaga, Turtle Clan).
Participating Māori Guests include Elders – Tā Derek Lardelli & Kahurangi Rose Lardelli; Tawera Tahuri (Creative New Zealand (CNZ) visual and performing artist); Kereama Te Ua (CNZ-performing artist); Tama Waipara (contemporary musician/singer); Taisha Tāiri (contemporary musician/singer); Te Kahureremoa Taumata (traditional musician/singer); Fiona Collis (weaver); Carla Ruka (ceramics); Margaret Aull (carving/contemporary visual artist)
This year we will have an “All Our Relations Tent” with all day talks, music, and demonstrations between Haudenosaunee and Māori artists. We are delighted to host Māori artists, performers, and culture bearers from New Zealand to join us for a weekend of art, enjoyment, and relationship building. The public is invited to join this relaxed atmosphere to observe as the artists create art and perform, between 10am-5pm.
Participating Haudenosaunee Artists in the “All Our Relations Tent” are: Linley Logan (Seneca), multidisciplinary artist; Marie Watt (Seneca), multimedia artist; Katsitsionni Fox (Mohawk,) multidisciplinary artist, including pottery, printmaking, and filmmaking, and Hayden Haynes (Seneca), mixed media artist specializing in antler carving.
Participation in the Artists Demonstration sessions are: Dan Hill (Cayuga) silverwork, Tonia Loran Galban (Mohawk) basket making, Angela Ferguson (Onondaga) indigenous foods, Jamie Jacobs (Seneca) quillwork, Lauren Jimerson (Seneca) painting
ASL Interpretation provided at the main stage, throughout performances is sponsored by The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), a college of Rochester Institute of Technology.
Ganondagan’s Indigenous Music & Arts Festival is made possible in part by New York State Council on the Arts, Wegmans, and NTID Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
