{"id":34209,"date":"2022-09-09T22:53:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T03:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/pop-fest-2022-debuts-with-five-star-performers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T22:53:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T03:53:31","slug":"pop-fest-2022-debuts-with-five-star-performers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/pop-fest-2022-debuts-with-five-star-performers\/","title":{"rendered":"POP Fest 2022 debuts with five star performers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the most notable performances at Native POP FEST 2022 was by Mato Wayuhi, Oglala Lakota, the music composer for the award-winning FX\/Hulu series \u201cReservation Dogs.\u201d (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hupa)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Part one of a two-part series on POP Fest<\/em><\/p>\n

RAPID CITY \u2013 A caliber of Indigenous performers not seen in and around He Sapa for quite some time graced the stage at Main Street Square over the weekend. Native People of the Plains brought to Rapid City POP Fest 2022 some of Indian Country\u2019s top Lakota Traditional, Hip Hop, Indie Rock, Psychedelic soul, jazz and blues guitar performances.<\/p>\n

Kicking off Pop Fest 2002 on Saturday afternoon Sept. 3, was Spur Pourier, Oglala Lakota, who brought to a mixed audience, his renditions of the traditional Lakota songs of his ancestors. Pourier sings a cappella which offers listeners a spiritual experience that transcends the moment and is soothing to the mind, body and spirit.<\/p>\n

Pourer\u2019s performance which echoed through the spires surrounding Main Street Square reminded onlookers, \u201cYou\u2019re in Lakota Country and standing on Sacred Ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Native POP, Spur has over one million streams and is a two-time Native American Music Award nominee. You may find him on Spotify and YouTube.<\/p>\n

Next on the roster was world renowned Native Hip-Hop artist Nataanii Means, Oglala Lakota, Din\u00e9 and Omaha Nation. Means, a modern warrior who has established himself by offering, through the spoken word ,a unique perspective on growing up in a world colored by racism and stained by a history of genocide. Means\u2019 lyrics reflect the same issues his famous father Russell Means spent a lifetime exposing, but from a genre young audiences can relate to.<\/p>\n

Native POP states, \u201cNataanii just released his third Album \u2018Growth\u2019 and is gearing up for a tour of North America, New Zealand and Europe this fall, winter and spring. Nataanii has been featured on major networks like MTV, and VICE as well as major publications such as Billboard, NY Times, LA Times\u201d and is listed as one of the top 12 most influential Native Americans by Buzzfeed.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next to hit the stage was Din\u00e9 artist DEF-I, who calls Albuquerque home. According to Native Pop, DEF-I \u201ccontinues to carve out an original niche from introspective and poetic Hip-Hop\u201d and \u201chis performance styles range widely from Hip-Hop and spoken word to contemporary Indigenous acoustic.\u201d DEF-I emerged from the underground indie rap circuit and his \u201ceclectic repertoire has provided him with much success and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

DEF-I has been featured on NPR Music, Sway In The Morning, BBC, Van\u2019s Warped Tour, Shade 45, CBC, HipHopDX, and is an active Recording Academy \/ GRAMMYs member, and has served as a U.S. Cultural Ambassador in Nigeria w\/ Next Level USA & Meridian International.<\/p>\n

One of the most notable performances of the day was by Mato Wayuhi, Oglala Lakota, the music composer for the award-winning FX\/Hulu series \u201cReservation Dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

A film crew from South Dakota Tourism accompanied Mato, documenting his every move as he toured his Indigenous homelands. He dedicated his hit song \u201cBlossom\u201d which included the lyrics \u201cYou\u2019re so beautiful when you blossom\u201d to his girlfriend Kinsale, whom he said traveled from the East Coast to watch him perform.<\/p>\n

The white man\u2019s world would be a much easier place for a talented and educated artist like Mato, but he instead chooses to use his talent to bring awareness to the plight of the Red Man.<\/p>\n

\u201cAin\u2019t nothing worse than an Indian with an education\u201d are appropriate lyrics from Wildberry Poptart as this Indian is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California\u2019s cinema and media studies.<\/p>\n

\u201cMato\u2019s music is everything that good Indigenous art is right now. We are in a Renaissance and his music speaks directly to that movement. It\u2019s unapologetic, it doesn\u2019t need permission to exist and it\u2019s made with an urgency \u2014 an urgency to move us into a new era\u201d says Sterlin Harjo, creator and showrunner of Reservation Dogs.<\/p>\n

Mato took the opportunity to promote his late father\u2019s, Akicita Naji (Michael Standing Soldier) organization Wo Ohitika (To Have Courage) which he started to help address the problems he saw among paroled offenders in South Dakota.<\/p>\n

Next week Part Two: Native POP Fest features Earth Sky People, Welby June, Live the Artist, Wake Singers and Levi Platero<\/p>\n

(Contact Ernestine Anunkasan Hupa at cahunpigiwin@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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One of the most notable performances at Native POP FEST 2022 was by Mato Wayuhi, Oglala Lakota, the music composer for the award-winning FX\/Hulu series \u201cReservation Dogs.\u201d (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hupa) Part one of a two-part series on POP Fest RAPID CITY \u2013 A caliber of Indigenous performers not <\/p>\n

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