Award winners included Best Music Video Performance, Through the Flood by Indian City / Vince Fontaine, NAMA 2018 Artist of the Year Annie Humphrey, Best Single Recording Left Right Left by Mickie James and Best Rap Hip Hop Recording Brave Star, Artson, Courtesy photos NAMA 2018
The 18th Annual Awards Gala was held Friday, October 12th at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino
Annie Humphrey, Ojibwe, a musical artist that hails from the Leech Lake reservation, took home artist of the year in the wake of her well-received album, The Beast and The Garden. Humphrey was one of several celebrated artists at the Nammy Awards. Other Native musical artists awarded included Kelly Derrickson for best female artist, Randy Wood for best male artist, Twin Flames for group of the year and Michael Bucher and Paco Fralick’s ‘Women and Water’ was awarded song of the year.
The Eighteenth Annual Native American Music Awards Show took place this Friday, October 12, 2018 as part of the United Southern & Eastern Tribes conference at the Seneca Niagara Casino in Niagara Falls in New York.
According to NAMA president Ellen Bello, there were over 200 music recording submissions for the Eighteenth Annual Native American Music Awards. Bello says it was a special night celebrating Native music.
In recognition of the plight of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls #MMIW and #MMIWG, artists at the awards show wore red ribbons. Courtesy photos
“It was a beautiful night…from Saginaw Grant & the drum group for Don’t Let the Drums Go Silent to Connor Chee with is a 95-year-old grandfather, to the fun of YMCA and Zippin up my Boots with Felipe Rose and Tracy Lee Nelson’s dedication to MMIW. It was all very special including winner Paco Fralick talking about Michael Bucher and the Pine Ridge Flute Society and Annie Humphrey honoring those who served in the military (like herself) — those were among the most poignant wins of the evening,” said Bello.
18th Annual Native American Music Awards
WINNERS
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Annie Humphrey
The Beast and The Garden
DEBUT ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Calvin Standing Bear
Fly Eagle Fly
DEBUT GROUP OF THE YEAR
Dreamwalker Suite
People of the Star Orchestra
BEST FEMALE ARTIST Kelly Derrickson I Am FLUTIST OF THE YEAR Pine Ridge Flute Society
Waziahanhan Siyotanka Okolakiciye
Williams & Ree announced the winner on stage.
GROUP OF THE YEAR
Twin Flames
Signal Fire
BEST MALE ARTIST
Randy Wood
Family
BEST AMERICANA RECORDING
Cluster Stars
Sandra Sutter
BEST BLUES RECORDING
Blues Loving Man
Tracy Lee Nelson
BEST COUNTRY RECORDING
Never Let Me Go
Desja Eagle Tail
BEST FOLK RECORDING
Signal Fire
Twin Flames
BEST NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH RECORDING
Songs of the Native American Church from Oklahoma Vol 5
Oliver Littlecook, O.J. Littlecook, Kyle Robedeaux
BEST HISTORICAL LINGUISTIC RECORDING
Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
Jeremy Dutcher
BEST SPOKEN WORD RECORDING
Fires of Thunder
Thana Redhawk
BEST INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING
Rushingwind
Steven Rushingwind
BEST POP RECORDING
Safe in the Arms of Time
Rita Coolidge
BEST POW WOW RECORDING
The Journey
Stoney Park
BEST RAP HIP HOP RECORDING
Brave Star
Artson
BEST ROCK RECORDING
Something Inside Is Broken
Native American Rock Opera
Various Artists
BEST TRADITIONAL RECORDING
Sweat Lodge Songs
Craig Elkshoulder
BEST WAILA RECORDING
All For You
O’odham Nights
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Don’t Let The Drums Go Silent
Saginaw Grant
SONG OF THE YEAR
Women and Water
Paco Fralick and Michael Bucher
BEST SINGLE RECORDING
Left Right Left
Mickie James
BEST DANCE SONG
Going Back To My Roots
Felipe Rose
BEST NEW AGE INSTRUMENTAL SONG
Beginnings
Connor Chee
BEST MUSIC VIDEO CONCEPT
Sky World
Supaman, Bear Fox, Teio Swathe
BEST MUSIC VIDEO NARRATIVE
Lakota WIll Live
Terrance. Jade
BEST MUSIC VIDEO PERFORMANCE
Through the Flood
Indian City
NATIVE HEART
Alexander Van Bubenheim
Don’t Let The Drums Go Silent
BEST NATIONAL RADIO PROGRAM
Pow Wow Radio
Pow Wows.com
BEST INDIE ARTIST
P.J. Vegas
Tears
COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR
Tonia Jo Hall
(Auntie Beachress)
HALL OF FAME
JESSE ED DAVIS
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