Joanne Shenandoah
Joanne Shenandoah, Ph.D., is one of America’s most celebrated and critically acclaimed musicians. She is a Grammy Award winner, with over forty music awards (including a record thirteen Native American Music awards) and sixteen recordings. She has captured the hearts of audiences all over the world, from North and South America, South Africa, Europe, Australia and Korea, with praise for her work to promote universal peace. She is a board member of the Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge. Joanne and her daughter Leah recorded on the title track “Path to Zero” with Jim Morrison, which also included the artists Sting, Bono, Sinead O’Conner, Robert Downey, Jr., and others. Joanne has performed for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and at St. Peter’s at the Vatican in Italy, where she performed an original composition for the celebration for the canonization of the first Native American Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. Shenandoah has performed at prestigious events such as the White House, Carnegie Hall, five Presidential inaugurations, Madison Square Garden, Crystal Bridges Museum, the NMAI-Smithsonian, the Ordway Theater, Hummingbird Centre, Toronto Skydome, the Parliament of the Worlds Religions (Africa, Spain and Australia) and Woodstock 1994.
