Music Maker Presents the Pura Fé Trio in Durham

Be a part of the audience for a live recording of Indigenous music


Music Maker will present the Pura Fé Trio on August 20th & 21st, 2010, at 8 pm in Durham at the newly renovated auditorium of the Shared Visions Retreat Center (formerly known as the historic Murphy School).

Acclaimed vocalist and songwriter Pura Fé will be accompanied by instrumentalists Peter Knudson and Cary Morin. We have also invited special guest performers from the Tuscarora community, The Deer Clan Singers (also known as Kever’s Long House Singers). They will perform some of their traditional songs and dances in addition to collaborating on Pura Fé’s original compositions. Additional performances include Justin Robinson, from the Carolina Chocolate Drops, on August 20th and Boo Hanks on August 21st.


The performances will be recorded for release on DixieFrog Records. Attendance is limited to 100 each evening. Admission is free, but must be reserved in advance. A cancellation fee of $15 per seat will be charged for unclaimed reservations that are not canceled by August 18th. Click here, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 919.643.2456 to make your reservation or to get more information.

The Shared Visions Retreat Center is located at 3717 Murphy School Rd. in Durham.

About Pura Fe: Pura Fe’s musical gift is an inheritance from her mother’s family of gifted female singers and she belongs to the fourth consecutive generation of seven singing sisters through the maternal line. Pura Fé explains, “Singing is my first language! Our family voice stems out of North Carolina, the ancestral homeland of the Tuscarora Nation.” Her soulful voice and acoustic lap steel slide guitar carries the ancestral message of the “Indigenous World” and the missing history that unified and separated the blood ties of Black and Indian people of the South. With a fresh, new take, Pura Fé resurrects and elegantly states the common bond and the indigenous influence on the “birth of the Blues”. Pura Fé has been a performing artist for more than 25 years. Pura Fé opened for Neil Young with one of her first solo performances for Aboriginal Voices. Her work with Ulali has made them world travelers, sharing the bill and collaborating with artists including Jackson Brown, The Indigo Girls, Robbie Robertson, Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, Ben Harper, Sting, Chuck Berry, Stephen Stills, Lady Smith Black Mombazo and The Neville Brothers.

The Deer Clan Singers Music Samples: Pura Fé - Follow Your Hearts Desire Pura Fé - If I was Your Guitar (I’d Be the Happiest Woman Alive) Pura Fé - Summertime Pura Fé - You Still Take

This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission with funding from the Grassroots Program of the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.