The Keetoowah Band is protective of its history and culture, and Bailey embodies this. His most streamed song is “T-Shirt,” which he wrote and released in 2024 about the appropriation of Native ...

Sometimes, it's not the meaning of a song's lyrics that get to you. It's the emotion in the singer's voice. That holds true even if the song is in a language you don't understand. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, ...

The 2025 Native American Music Awards (NAMMAs) took place yesterday, in Niagara Falls, NY, celebrating the best in Native music this year and showcasing a range of Indigenous artists across ...

There’s a soulfulness, a yearning, a depth to Ken Pomeroy’s music that belies her age and harks back to a bygone era. The 22-year-old Cherokee folksinger established her aching, ethereal sound at the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Louis W. Ballard paved the way for a booming generation of artists. But his works have been too little performed and recorded. Louis W. Ballard in 1971. “What I am attempting in ...

The Good Medicine Indigenous Music Festival is happening this weekend, the first event of its kind in the city. Curated by Houston composer and musician Aryn Ward (Mvskoke/Yuchi), the festival brings ...