Photo by Trevor Brady

BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE, one of the most enduring of North American singer-songwriters, makes a rare visit to the UK in June 2011 to play two live shows. They are:

THURSDAY, JUNE 30th - THE UNION CHAPEL, ISLINGTON, LONDON (http://www.unionchapel.org.uk/) Tickets available from: See Tickets: 0870 264 3333
FRIDAY, JULY 1st - CORNBURY FESTIVAL, GREAT TEW ESTATE, Nr CHARLBURY, OXFORDSHIRE (http://www.cornburyfestival.com/ )

BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE has enjoyed a musical career that stretches back almost fifty years now. By the age of twenty-four, she had appeared all over Europe, Canada, Australia and Asia, receiving honours, medals and awards, which continue to this day. Her song Until It’s Time for You to Go, was recorded by Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Barbra Streisand and Cher, and her Universal Soldier became the anthem of the peace movement. For her very first album she was voted Billboard’s “Best New Artist.” Other career landmarks include playing on the soundtrack of the legendary Mick Jagger starring movie, Performance, as well as writing and performing the theme song to the massively successful movie, Soldier Blue.

Despite being the subject of an ‘unofficial’ US government blacklist, her fame only grew. Buffy Sainte-Marie continued to appear at countless grassroots concerts, AIM events and other activist benefits. She made 17 albums of her music, three of her own television specials, spent five years on Sesame Street, scored movies, helped found Canada’s “Music of Aboriginal Canada” Juno Awards category, raised a son, earned a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, taught Digital Music as adjunct professor at several colleges, and won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award Oscar for the song, Up Where We Belong.