KNME-TV, Channel 5, (PBS - Albuquerque / Santa Fe) has been nominated for a national NAMMY Award, a Native American Music Award, for the production “Songs of the Spirit,” in the category best short of long form video.
The winner will be announced at the 7th Annual Native American Music Awards, on Thursday, Feb. 10 in Hollywood, Fla.
“Songs of the Spirit” was taped in Albuquerque's historic 1927 “Pueblo Deco” KiMo Theatre. The production features three nationally renowned, multi-award winning Native musicians: flutist R. Carlos Nakai, singer-songwriter Joanne Shenandoah and singer-songwriter-painter Bill Miller, performing with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra (NMSO), Guillermo Figueroa, music director.
KNME-TV created and produced “Songs of the Spirit” with Native American Public Telecommunications and Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
“Bringing this production to PBS was an exceptional opportunity to collaborate with our own New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and these great Native American artists,” said Ted A. Garcia, KNME-TV general manager and CEO, and executive producer of “Songs of the Spirit.”
The production was taped live before two sold-out audiences at the KiMo Theater in September 2003 and has been aired nationally on PBS stations beginning in March 2004.
Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920
Posted by scarr at January 25, 2005 05:42 PM