Earthsinger: Joan Henry

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Vocalist, actress, dancer, composer, poet-lyricist, percussionist and choreographer, it’s hard to think of a style Joan Henry doesn’t cover. Her credits span the National Tour of Camelot with Richard Harris, the West Side Story 30th Anniversary Company, TV-movie Everyday Heroes, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas, appearances with guitarist Kenny Burrell, Pete Seeger, Paul Winter and R. Carlos Nakai, and a slew of recordings including two jazz albums with stellar jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette – Earthwalk & Music for the Fifth World, alongside John Scofield and Living Colour’s Will Calhoun and Vernon Reid. She also lists two solo CD’s – one of traditional songs, one of stories —co-produced with her son— and a contemporary offering,New Mountain with longtime musical ally Gus Mancini.

Ms. Henry is both hahesh’kah (lead drummer) and dekanogisgi (traditional song-carrier), and a Native Women’s Traditional dancer. Encouraged by her elders, she founded acclaimed traditional drum group Mothers of Nations Singers & Dancers (later known as Sky Woman Singers) – the first women’s drum ever invited to the National Native American Veterans Powwow in Washington DC and the first to preside at Indigenous Peoples’ Day Opening Ceremonies for the United Nations – where Ms. Henry has since presented on healing & spirituality among First Nations women and offered opening prayers & song for the International Day of Peace and the World Indigenous Forum.

The Earthsinger web site was converted from an HTML site to a WordPress site, now stylish and modern, making it easy for Ms. Henry to update herself.

Testimonial

Designs coming out of Robert Sink's Webworks are clean, clear, dynamic, fluid, attractive to the eye and above all user friendly. As a designer, Sink chooses palettes and styles in accordance with your own vision for your website and stays in close contact with you throughout the process, which as an artist myself I particularly appreciated. I am still getting rave reviews on my current website even as we upgrade to a stylish new mobile, contemporary home page! Beautiful and interesting to your website visitors, Webworks sites really work for you... —Joan Henry, Composer/Artist/Educator