Lakota Hemp Days 6
August 21-23 2007
August 22 will host the main show with the following acts
New Primitives • Javier Trejo Trio • Crazy Horse Singers • DJ Manatea • Sequoia

New Primitives
Voted Best Reggae Band 4 years in a row!
2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006
Minnesota Music Awards

Formed in early 1999, New Primitives explores popular music through high-energy Rhythm & Blues, Ska, Reggae, Calypso, and World Dance Music. The music of New Primitives is an amalgam of the communities and lives of its members. Performing regularly in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, this diverse group of talented musicians is dedicated to bringing people together. With music as their vehicle, New Primitives awakens the commonality of all people and creates an environment in which everyone is welcome and anything is possible. Vesco says he's seen New Primitives twice--at the Hemp Hoe Down and at the Solstice Shakedown--and "they are, quite simply, the best concert band I've seen and heard since I saw Neil Young (with Booker T and the MGs) about 10 years ago." Vesco continues: "They are excellent musicians, melding styles from all over the world, creating music that makes you grin, makes you wanna dance..." SOON...everyone will be New Primitives. www.newprimitives.com

Javier Trejo Trio

Javier started playing the violin at age three, moved to the piano at seven, the saxophone at 12 and guitar at 14. "I feel very fortunate to have found my calling in life! I still believe that music has the power to save the world, and that we all need to get together on this and raise the global consciousness because there are other people out there who feel the same way!"

Born in Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico, and raised on the "Westside" of St. Paul, Minnesota, a multicultural community, Javier Trejo embodies what it is to be Latino growing up in the Midwest. Singer, songwriter and guitarist for The Beads and now guitarist and co-vocalist for New Primitives (in addition to fronting his own "Little Santana"-like trio, Javier has opened and played with some of the United States' finest acts including: The Neville Brothers, Widespread Panic, The Big Wu, Willie Waldman Project, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Los Lobos.

Just so we're clear; the Javier Trjo Trio will perform at Lakota Hemp Days, then Javier will play and sing with New Primitives. We get to see a truly masterful guitarist play widely different styles, as well as listen to Javier's singing, a blues voice that makes you ache.

http://www.javiertrejo.com/

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Crazy Horse Singers

The Crazy Horse singers originated in the late 1960s and consisted of singers and drummers from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. Along their paths the drum experienced many trials and tribulations and most of these singers have passed on to the spirit world. It was through two of these original members, Leroy Looks Twice and Chris Eagle Hawk, that we have the present Crazy Horse Singers.

Since 1986 the present day Crazy Horse has journeyed across the native lands. Most of them have transformed from passionate radical youths to conservative middle aged men with families to provide and care for. In this transition of life they have experienced many
hardships but through prayer and subsequent understanding of cultural reality they are still here today to pass our ageless traditions. Their experiences in tumultuous times have taught them humility and understanding which anchor the necessary principles of their drum. Today they envision a future with happiness and a brighter dream that their "Wakan Esa" (Sacred Children) would not have to endure what most of their generation saw in their confusion to understand their place in a very complex and sophisticated modern civilization. The Crazy Horse Singers wish that their continuing quest for full and complete lives will give hope to their "Wanbli Aunkson" (Grey Eagles) that their words, dreams and teachings will be carried on past the seventh generation and into endless time of our hearts,
souls, and minds.

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DJ Manatea

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Sequoia