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Legendary Playwright and Novelist, Tomson Highway,
Performs
His Songs Sunday, May 3
A cabaret performance by Tomson Highway (Cree), internationally acclaimed
playwright, will take place on Sunday, May 3 at 2 p.m. at the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye
Center. The performance, part of the museum’s “Native Sounds Downtown”
series, will feature songs from Highway’s musical plays “The Incredible
Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito” and “Rose” with vocals by Patricia Cano in
English, Cree and French and piano by Highway himself. The presentation,
and museum admission, is free.
Highway is a celebrated artist whose works include the novel “The Kiss of the
Fur Queen,” and the plays “The Rez Sisters” and “Dry Lips Oughta Move
to Kapuskasing” which have both been produced in theaters, festivals and
universities throughout the world. He was inducted into the Order of
Canada and in 2001 received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award from the National
Aboriginal Achievement Foundation in Canada.
The performance will include six songs from “The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane
Mosquito,” which describes the trials of a 4-year-old girl mosquito who was
born without wings. The afternoon will also include eight songs from
“Rose,” Highway’s third installment of his “Res” plays which includes the women
from “The Rez Sisters” and the men from “Dry Lips…”
“Native Sounds Downtown” will continue with performances by the Standing Rock
Community High School Band on June 5, The Bannaba Project on July 23, and in
conjunction with Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, La Casita on August 10. The
summer concerts will conclude with a special performance by Tanya Tagag (Inuit)
on August 20, presented with Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and The Americas
Society.
The Smithsonian National
Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center is
located at One Bowling Green in New York City, across from Battery Park. The
museum is free and open every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursdays until 8
p.m. Call (212) 514-3700 for general information and (212) 514-3888 for a
recording about the museum’s public programs. By subway, the museum may be
reached by the 1 to South Ferry, the 4 or 5 to Bowling Green or the R or W to
Whitehall Street. The museum’s Web site is www.americanindian.si.edu.
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