An Afternoon with the Iron River Singers, 4/7

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The Tufts University Department of Music presents the Iron River Singers in the Distler Performance Hall at the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center on Sunday, April 7th, 2024 at 2:00pm.

The Iron River Singers is a well-known local Northern style Pow-wow singing group, bringing together members of the Chippewa, Wampanoag, Abenaki, and Passamaquoddy nations among others. The Iron River Singers will perform traditional pow-wow music from their repertoire of music, along with dance performances, and punctuated by short explanations. The 3:00 p.m. concert will be preceded by an interactive presentation at 2:00 p.m. by the group's director and educator, Chris Newell, to introduce indigenous music to the audience and give key elements to understand its sounds and culture. Join for an post-concert reception in the Granoff Music Center lobby.

This event is supported by Tufts Diversity Fund, Medford Arts Council, Center for the Humanities at Tufts, the Tufts Departments of Music, Anthropology, Race Colonialism & Diaspora, Sociology, History, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, Tufts Fletcher School, Civic Studies program, and the International Relations Program.

The Granoff Music Center is located at 20 Talbot Avenue on Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus. For more information, please visit go.tufts.edu/musicevents or call the Granoff Music Center Box Office at (617)627-2253.