Wishlist + Basket. Best Documentary - Long Format (Alanis Obomsawin Award), Waban-aki: People from Where the Sun Rises, This page was last edited on 9 May 2021, at 06:55. 2. Toutes les chansons ont t enregistres au Studio Marko. [50] She has taught at the Summer Institute of Film and Television in Ottawa. Stream live CNN, FOX News Radio, and MSNBC. These reissues faithfully recreate Obomsawin's original 1988 cover art and liner notes (which have been slightly updated/corrected by the artist) while including some additional archival images in the liner notes and inside gatefold (on CD) and in the printed inner sleeve and pull-out poster (on vinyl). [29] That same month, she was named a Commander in the newly created Order of Montreal, recognizing individuals who have contributed to the development of Montreal. Bush Lady, originally released in 1988, is now being re-released 30 years later. Cat Number CST133LP Release date 15 Jun '18. [27] At the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival, Obomsawin received the $15,000 Best Canadian Documentary Award, for Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger. [42] That same month, she was honoured with the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.[43][44][45]. is a unique and magical record by any definition. She has also had long careers as a singer-songwriter and visual artist devoted to telling Indigenous stories. [35] In February 2015, the Montreal-based arts peace advocacy group Artistes pour la paix presented her with its lifetime achievement award. [40], In 2010, she was named to the Playback Canadian Film & Television Hall of Fame. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Bush Lady - Alanis Obomsawin on AllMusic Based in Montral, she has directed 50 films with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) that explore the lives and concerns of Canada's First Nations, receiving some of the country's highest accolades, including The Order of Canada, the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Art, and most recently the 2017 Order of Montral.Before establishing herself as a filmmaker, Obomsawin began her artistic life as a singer-songwriter in the 1960s, as Indigenous artists from across North America were rallying in new assertions of cultural identity, consciousness and political rights, calling for reckonings with oppressive colonial history. It was followed by My Name is Kahentiiosta (1995), a film about a young Kahnawake woman who was arrested after the 78-day armed standoff, and Spudwrench Kahnawake Man (1997), profiling Randy Horne, a high-steel worker from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake. Before establishing herself as a filmmaker, Obomsawin began her artistic life as a singer-songwriter in the 1960s, as Indigenous artists from across North America were rallying in new assertions of cultural identity, consciousness and political rights, calling for reckonings with oppressive colonial history. Featured peformers: Alanis Obomsawin (vocals, aka_text lyrics role_id 1175.aka_text, aka_text music role_id 1010.aka_text, liner notes), Franois Richard (flute), Mario Giroux (cello), Marie-France Richard (oboe), Jean Vanasse (arranger, leader), It was the reservation of her parents' birth. Released 15 June 2018 on Constellation (catalog no. Based in Montral, she has directed 50 films with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) that explore the lives and concerns of Canada's First Nations, receiving some of the country's highest accolades, inc Skip to main content.ca. In the mid-1980s Canada's national broadcaster (CBC Radio) invited Obomsawin to record an album; unsatisfied with these recordings, she reclaimed the master tapes, remixed the material, re-recorded the title track from scratch, and issued the ensuing Bush Lady album on her own private press in 1988 complete with her own artwork and liner notes. Watch the video for Bush Lady from Alanis Obomsawin's Bush Lady for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Based in Montral, she has directed 50 films with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) that explore the lives and concerns of Canada's First Nations, receiving some of the country's highest accolades, including The Order of Canada, the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Art, and most recently the 2017 Order of Montral. [14], In 2009, she completed the documentary Professor Norman Cornett: "Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer? She is a highly distinguished documentary filmmaker, and her prolific, internationally acclaimed output for the National Film Board, spanning almost fifty years, has addressed a huge range of themes and issues relating to Canadas Indigenous peoples. Tho (Part 2)7. Review by Bekki Bemrose . Remastered from the original analog tapes, newly pressed on audiophile 180gram vinyl and on CD for the first time. [13], In 2010, she completed a short drama When All the Leaves are Gone, about her experiences attending public school in Quebec. CD comes in a 20pt 100% recycled paperboard mini-gatefold jacket with inner sleeve for the disc and a 20-page booklet of liner notes and credits. Listen to free internet radio, news, sports, music, and podcasts. As a singer/songwriter, Obomsawin has toured Canada, the United States and Europe performing for humanitarian causes in niversities, museums, prisons and art centres, as well as at folk art festivals. Amidst the broader and long-overdue resurgence of interest in modern Indigenous music - perhaps most notably culminating with the Grammy-nominated Native North America (Vol. Prise de son et mixage/Recorded and mixed by: Muse des Abnakis d'Odanak/Odanak Abenaki Museum; Mariposa Folk Foundation, York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives; Alanis Obomsawin. During this period she lived with her mother's sister Jesse Benedict and her husband Levi who had six children of their own. At 87, Obomsawin is one of the most influential Indigenous filmmakers working today, and she has a hefty list of lifetime achievement awards, honorary doctorates, and film prizes to prove it. Bush Lady is the only record ever made by Obomsawin, [30] In March 2017, she received the inaugural Prix Origine at Montreal's Btisseuses de la Cit Awards, for her work on Indigenous issues. [38] In January of that year, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced that Obomsawin would receive its Humanitarian Award for Exceptional Contributions to Community & Public Service, presented at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards. Bush Lady, an Album by Alanis Obomsawin. Obomsawin's success in raising funds for a construction of a pool for Odanak children was interviewed about it by the CBC-TV's Telescope series, which was seen by NFB producers Joe Koenig and Bob Verrall. Lacking formal distribution - and with Obomsawin focused primarily on her documentary film career - only a portion of this pressing was sold at the time, the remainder occupying a closet in her Montral home. She's directed more than 50 films that focus on Indigenous communities and she's an A member of the Abenaki Nation and one of Canadas most esteemed and decorated documentary filmmakers, Alanis recorded Bush Lady for CBC, Canadas national broadcaster, in 1985, but was unhappy with the lead song, Bush Lady. to screen at TIFF 2014", "There's no stopping legendary documentarian Alanis Obomsawin", "TIFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Alanis Obomsawin "We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice, "Alanis Obomsawin documents Cindy Blackstock's fight for equality for Aboriginal children", "Alanis Obomsawin brings "Trick or Treaty" to Studio Q", "Toronto film fest unveils docs, horror and Athens lineup additions", "The People of the Kattawapiskak River examines a community on the edge". was the first film by an indigenous filmmaker to screen in the Masters programme at the Toronto International Film Festival. SONG TIME Odana. A lifetime member of the board of directors for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Obomsawin is also a member of the board for Vermont Public Television and National Geographic International. It's an invaluable example of contemporary First Nations music that blends traditional folkways with avant-garde composition. Robert Houle Alanis Obomsawin (from the catalogue for Land, Spirit, Power, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1992) [ 990 words] Storytelling is one of the most traditional forms of communicating personal and collective values and mores among the First Nations, and the Abenaki, known as the people of the dawn, or easterners, have a storyteller who uses film and song. [28], In May 2017 Obomsawin received an honorary doctorate from McGill University's School of Continuing Studies. [5] Obomsawin began conceptualizing the film in 2010 when she was invited by Stan Louttit, Grand Chief of the Mushkegowuk Council, to film a conference the band was hosting about Treaty No. Alanis Obomsawin, Bush Lady. "[51] ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival presents "The Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award" every year for achievement in documentary film . Remasteris partir des bandes originales 1/4"analogique/Remastered from the original 1/4" analog tapes by Harris Newman, Greymarket Mastering, Montral, 2018. She also managed her own stage at the Mariposa Folk Festival in the 1960s. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2018 CD release of Bush Lady on Discogs. She was invited by Folkways to perform at Town Hall in New York City in the early 1960s and spent most of that decade primarily identifying as a musician and social activist, channeling traditional First Nations songs hand-in-hand with modern composition and arrangements.Obomsawin kept her musical output percolating alongside her burgeoning documentary film career, with performances at the legendary Mariposa Folk Festival among others. They invited the singer/storyteller to the Film Board to work as an advisor on a film about Aboriginal people. Wearing a black and white floral dress and embroidered tights, Abenaki filmmaker and activist Alanis Obomsawin exudes a stylish and poised, yet down-to-earth presence. She was also a board member of Studio 1, the NFB's Aboriginal studio, and a former advisor to the New Initiatives in Film, a Studio D program for women of colour and women of the First Nations. 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A re-issue of the rare, legendary and long out-of-print album recorded by First Nations and Canadian cultural icon Alanis Obomsawin in the mid-1980s. Listen free to Alanis Obomsawin Bush Lady (Odana, Bush Lady and more). All songs were recorded at Studio Marko, Nous tenons remercier/Special thanks to Serge Gagn. Of The Earth And Of The Sea5. She went on to direct films of her own, while continuing to perform and fight for justice for her people. Remastered from the original analog tapes, newly pressed on audiophile 180gram vinyl and on CD for the first time. Obomsawin's films also include: Incident at Restigouche (1984), a powerful depiction of the Quebec police raid of a Micmac reserve; Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Mtis Child (1986), the disturbing examination of an adolescent suicide; No Address (1988), a look at Montreal's homeless; as well as Mother of Many Children (1977). Prior to beginning her career as an activist documentary filmmaker, American Canadian Abenaki artist Alanis Obomsawin began her artistic life as a singer and musician in the 1960s. In the mid-1980s Canada's national broadcaster (CBC Radio) invited Obomsawin to record an album; unsatisfied with these recordings, she reclaimed the master tapes, remixed the material, re-recorded the title track from scratch, and issued the ensuingBush Ladyalbum on her own private press in 1988 complete with her own artwork and liner notes. Bush Lady is the only record ever made by Obomsawin, [26] In June 2019 she was named a Companion of the Order of Canada. Audiophile 180gram pressing in midnight ultra-black vinyl from Optimal (Germany) comes in a 24pt jacket printed on 100% recycled paperboard with artworked inner sleeve, 12"x24" liner notes insert, 12"x24" poster, and 320kbps MP3 download card. At the age of 85, the unimposing activist is reissuing her 1988 album Bush Lady. "[32] Also in 2016, she received two of Quebec's highest honours when she received the prix Albert-Tessier for contributions to the cinema of Quebec in November,[33] and was named a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, in June of that year. Cut off, speaking little French and no English, Obomsawin held fast to the songs and stories she had learned on the reserve. to be an Indian, to be a native person in this country. Alanis Obomsawin is a member of the Abenaki Nation and one of Canada's foremost activist documentary filmmakers. Released 15 June 2018 on Constellation (catalog no. A re-issue of the rare, legendary and long out-of-print album recorded by First Nations and Canadian cultural icon Alanis Obomsawin in the mid-1980s. [36] In March of that year, she was among the first 35 people named to the inaugural Ordre des arts et des lettres du Qubec. [34], In October 2015, she received a lifetime achievement award from Chile's Valdivia International Film Festival. When she was six months old, her mother returned to the Odanak reserve north east of Montreal where she lived until she was 7. [5] As of August 2017, she has directed 50 films with the NFB, with her documentary film Our People Will Be Healed, about the Helen Betty Osborne Ininiw Education Resource Centre in Norway House Cree Nation, premiering in the Masters programme of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. In 1960, Obomsawin made her professional debut as a singer-songwriter in New York City. Originally released on her own private press, it was remastered and re-released in 2018 by Constellation Records. [31], In November 2016, she received the Clyde Gilmour Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association, which called Obomsawin "a significant architect of Canadian cinema and culture. [39] At the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, she was a recipient of a Birks Diamond Tribute to the Year's Women in Film. 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