Songs and Dances for the Three Generous Sisters composed by Ron Warren

from North American Indian Cello Project by Dawn Avery

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"Songs and Dances for the Three Generous Sisters" written for Dawn Avery, is a celebration of her many musical skills in the form of a musical ceremony honoring the three sisters, Corn, Beans and Squash, that have sustained Indigenous Peoples for many generations.

The piece is scored for cello, voice and rattles. - Ron Warren
Song 1
Dance 1
Dance 2
Dance 3
Ending Song

Ron Warren (Echota Tsalagi, Cherokee) is an innovative Native American flute player and composer whose creative work fully engages the present while remaining firmly in touch with traditional musical structures and practices.

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from North American Indian Cello Project, released November 5, 2021
Composed by Ron Warren who is of the Echota Tsalagi Nation
Performed by Dawn Avery
Recorded by Atilla Molnar LIVE at Montgomery College in 2019
Edited and Mastered by Larry Mitchell in 2021
Commissioned by Dawn Avery thanks to a grant from the First Nations Composers Initiative project supported through the Ford Foundation's Indigenous Knowledge, Expressive Culture grant program of the American Composers Forum

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