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Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Running for the Drum marches on: 4 Canadian Aboriginal Music Award nominations

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Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Running for the Drum marches on: 4 Canadian Aboriginal Music Award nominations

WINNIPEG – The Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards announced their 2009 finalist for the upcoming gala. The 11th annual event will take place on November 27th in Hamilton, Ontario. Buffy Sainte-Marie, the woman that virtually invented the role of the Aboriginal international activist pop star, received four nominations: Best Female Artist of the Year, Best Album of the Year for Running for the Drum, Best Song Single for “No No Keshagesh” and Best Songwriter for “No No Keshagesh” and “Cho Cho Fire.”

Earlier this year, Buffy Sainte-Marie released her 18th album, Running for the Drum, in North America and throughout Europe to critical acclaim, “A really wild, ear opening set for those that aren’t afraid to take the chance on something that rocks the boat against complacency and does it without a cudgel.” (Midwest Records).

Passionate as ever, Buffy Sainte-Marie uses her latest songs to cover an extensive array of commanding themes, including great loves and protest against environmental greed. Running for the Drum, like the artist herself, cannot be neatly categorized into a single musical genre; instead finding itself among a rare breed of pure music fusion.

Adding to an already expansive list of accolades and awards, Buffy Sainte-Marie won her second Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year (2009) and became the 25th inductee into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.

Running for the Drum, in tandem with her DVD, Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life, is available through select online retailers, including iTunes and Amazon and in stores throughout Europe and North America.