Yolanda Martinez
In Concert
Native American "2005
Best Female Artist" Yolanda Martinez
In Concert: Native American “2005 Best Female
Artist” Yolanda Martinez accompanied by
Will Clipman, award winning percussionist,
Patrick Flynn, multi-instrumentalist, and
ThunderBeat, winner of two Native American
music awards for best World and New Age Music. Saturday May 24th, 2008, at
7 pm in the Great Room. Join us for an exceptional evening of music that
will lift your spirits, reconnecting you with the energy of cultural sounds, and
rhythms you won’t forget. Yolanda
writes and produces her own songs and has released seven albums ranging from
drumming and chants to full band sounds. Will
has recorded over 50 albums, many of them with internationally acclaimed
artists. Multi-instrumentalist Patrick has
performed and recorded extensively as a featured artist and sought-after
accompanists. ThunderBeat, an award winning
composer, author, teacher, shamanic practitioner and sound healer will also be
performing. Accompanied by Native American Music award nominee flutist,
Daniel Hicks and
Jahsah on Didgeridoo, Gongs & Crystal Bowls. $15 in advance at
Crystal Magic, or $20 at the door.
Yolanda Martinez
Yolanda Martinez
Legends Alive Productions is a Native American Owned and Operated business since 1994. We strive to create a first class high quality product for you to be proud to own or gift to friends and loved ones. Yolanda Martinez is an Apache Drum Maker, making the most beautiful Drums you will ever own. Yolanda has been making Drums since 1987 her beautiful Drums are full of life and incredible energy. They are sought world wide. Yolanda recorded her first Recording in 1992. In 2005 she became a Native American Music Awards Winner for Best Female Artist. Her latest CD America was nominated in the 2007 NAMMYS for Best Folk Artist. Her music consists of Traditional Native American to Contemporary, Country and wonderful Latin.
Born in So. New Mexico, Yolanda grew up with no neighbors around. Only Mother Nature as her playground and the animals and younger siblings as her play mates. Yolanda was born 3rd of ll children to two wonderful, loving, hard working parents. Given the gift of voice from her mother and the gift of laughter from her father Yolanda was always singing and laughing as she is today.
The call for making Drums came in 1987. She calls them a gift from Spirit,
for it was spirit that guided her for two years to finally come out with the
wonderful, singing, resonant Drums that she makes today. She has her
special way of tieing the back to make designs like THE WHIRLWIND, GRAND MOTHER
SPIDER, SAGUARO CACTUS, INFINITY, STARBURST, and FOUR DIRECTIONS. She feels that
when she is making a Drum she is making it to connect with it's owner, and they
do.
Will Clipman
Will Clipman
A drummer since the age of three, Will Clipman has mastered a pan-global palette of indigenous instruments in addition to the traditional drumset. In a career that has spanned nearly every known musical genre, Will has recorded over fifty albums, including twenty-one for Canyon Records, the world’s leading Native American music label, where he is regarded as the house percussionist. A veteran of more bands than can be listed here, Will currently records and performs with the R. Carlos Nakai Quartet, the William Eaton Ensemble, the Wilde Boys (Nakai, Eaton & Clipman), Gentle Thunder, Ananeah, Quiet Fire, Sacred Clay, and the Conrads. Will’s music has been honored with two GRAMMY Nominations for Best New Age Album; a NAMA Award for Best Instrumental Album; and a TAMMIE Award for Best Drummer. For more information visit www.willclipman.com.
A poet since the age of six, Will has published a book, Dog Light; has been included in anthologies such as Dog Music, Tumblewords, The University of Arizona Poetry Center 1960-1985, the National Poetry Competition Winners Anthology, and the Ellensburg Anthology; and has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Ironwood, Greenfield Review, Amaranth Review, Stone Drum, Louisville Review, Syracuse Review, Heron Dance, Southern Poetry Review, Rhetoric Review, and Protea Poetry Journal. His writing has been honored with the Whiffen Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Margaret Sterling Award, the Tucson/Pima Arts Council Poetry Fellowship, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts Award of Merit for Poetry. His poem “The Quiet Power” is the official Dedicatory Poem of the Tucson Main Library.
Will is also an accomplished maskmaker and storyteller. His solo performance,
Myths & Masks, magically integrates his original mask art, mythopoetic
storytelling, and multicultural music. Working both freelance and as an
Artist-in-Residence with the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Will provides
hands-on interdisciplinary workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and full-length
residencies to elementary, middle, and high schools, community colleges, art
galleries, libraries, adult prisons, juvenile detention facilities, senior
centers, parks and recreation programs, and hospitals. His service to the
community as an arts educator has been honored with the ACA Decade of
Distinguished Service Award and a Governor’s Arts Award Nomination. Will holds a
Bachelor of Arts Degree from Syracuse University, and a Master of Fine Arts
Degree from the University of Arizona.
ThunderBeat
ThunderBeat
ThunderBeat is a gifted shamaness, a World Bridger who melds tonal and tribal elements into multidimensional soundscapes. Her harmonies soothe the spirit. Her rhythms awaken the soul. Part Choctaw and Shawnee Indian, ThunderBeat draws on her Native heritage, western musical training and an ever-deepening connection to Great Spirit to weave healing vibrations of sound that enhance your journey into Self and Source. She makes her home among the sacred red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. Her name, ThunderBeat, given to her by the Elders, speaks of her abilities to heal and awaken through the power of sound. In addition to live performances, recorded music, chakra sound healing and drum workshops, ThunderBeat is a Reiki Master and offers chakra sound healing sessions, soul retrievals, house healings and Mayan astrology readings.
ThunderBeat is best known for her activational music and melodic drumming methods. She is also an accomplished author, teacher, composer, and a pioneer in sound healing. For over two decades she has recorded and toured with national and international artists on Major labels. Minds Eye on CBS Records, The Debs on A&M Records, Toys on Secret / Atlantic Records, and with Native American Music award winner Robert Mirabal, Brooke Medicine Eagle, William Two Feather, Callie Chapel, Gregg Braden and Steven Halpern.
She works with and openly embraces Great Spirit. She has traveled to many sacred sites to receive and bring back the ancient knowledge of healing and Activational music. She has conduced ceremony in the Pyramids and temples of Egypt and at MT Sinai, the vortexes in Sedona AZ, several Native American sacred lands and the Mayan Temples in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. ThunderBeat has researched and studied sound frequency therapy since 1993. In 1997 she advanced her unique sound healings techniques following her spiritual initiation in the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
She has taught drums at the world famous Sam ash music and at Long Island N.Y. drum center for 10 years. Her healing concerts have empowered many people around the World. As a certified Reiki Master, Her teachings include all natural healing modalities - Sound healing, chakra awakening, color- sound-light therapy, herbal treatments, crystal healing, tuning forks, Drum workshops, sacred breath work, house healing, and Aura repair. In 2005 she won a Beacon of light award for her inspiration, creativity, wisdom, compassion, transformational music and service to the community and the world! For information on any of these services, or to book ThunderBeat for your live event, contact: ThunderVision, P.O. Box 3700, Sedona, Arizona 86340. (928) 204-0752
For further information please contact
Sedona Creative Life Center
928-282-9300