COCHISE OKCHA-A IS ALIVE!!!!

THE NEW CD

Vote for Cochise Okcha-a Is Alive!! For Best Flute CD!!!! Nominated Are The Slammin’ Flute Songs – Kokopelli’s Groove and Three Sisters – Corn Beans and Squash.

Vote for OKCHA-A IS ALIVE!! for the 2008 APCMA - Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards in the categories of BEST FLUTE CD, Aboriginal Entertainer of the Year, and Best Album Design.

Photo credit M. Zafar

COCHISE ANDERSON RECEIVES FIRST NATIONS COMPOSERS INITIATIVE GRANT 2007-2008

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CHECK OUT THE COOL NEW MUSIC VIDEOS!!!!

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VISIT COCHISE ON MY SPACE - WWW.MYSPACE.COM/COCHISEANDERSON

* NEW * Watch Cochise's Video Interview by the Bush Foundation Fellowship.
Cochise received the prestigous BAF award in 2002.
http://www.bushfoundation.org/videos

UPCOMING EVENTS

June 3, 2008 01:00 PM EST- COCHISE ON NATIVE AMERICA CALLING
Cochise, Dallin, and Naomi discuss Performing at The Dreaming Festival this week in Brisbane Australia!
* LISTEN LIVE at http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/ram/2008/june/060308.m3u this broadcast is part of...

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 – Current Events:
The National Congress of American Indians is holding their mid-year meeting in Nevada and one of the top issues is their Native Vote Campaign. A Native American delegation will visit the Down Under to perform at The Dreaming Festival, one of Australia ’s premiere indigenous arts and culture events. The Hopi Agricultural & Food Symposium is coming up and the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts will display the unique viewpoints of Inuit artists from Alaska and Canada.

June 6, 2008 to June 9, 2008 - COCHISE AT THE DREAMING FESTIVAL

The Native American Dancers featuring Cochise Anderson
The Native American Dancers are a visual feast in their handmade regalia, representing the Menominee, Hochunk, Choctaw Arapaho/ Seneca nations, their dance is a mixture of the Women’s Fancy Shawl dance and hoop dance. This performance will give you a taste of what the pow wow circuit is like in the United States of America.
SAT Dancestry 11:00am, 2:00pm
SUN Dancestry 11:30am, 3:30pm
MON Dancestry 10:00am, 4:30pm

Cochise Anderson
Cochise Anderson, from the Chickasaw/Choctaw nations of Oklahoma, is a musician, actor, playwright and poet. As an award-winning playwright he has extended his craft by initiating a creative writing/spoken word theatre. Cochise performs with the Native American Dancers.
SUN Little Blak Duck 6:30PM

June 8, 2008 08:00 PM - THE DREAMING FESTIVAL - BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, Brisbane, 110011
Performing at the Dreaming Festival, more details as they come aboard! http://www.thedreamingfestival.com

CLICK HERE FOR RECENT EVENTS

Sunday, April 27, 2008 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM - Trickster Fest: Bike, Blues and Art Show sponsored by the Chicago Indian Center (Show at Trickster Gallery)
Trickster Gallery 190 South Roselle Road Schaumburg, Illinois, 60193
www.myspace.com/trickstergallery

Cochise will b performing both as a solo artist and as a bluescian with Michael Tafoya and The Lost Boys! Solo show at 3pm and the blueshow at 5pm. Part of Bikers. Blues and the Arts sponsored by the Chicago Indian Center.

CLICK HERE FOR MAP AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE TRICKSTER GALLERY
190 S. Roselle Rd. Schaumburg, IL 60193 / 847-301-2090 trickstergallery@aic-chicago.org

Also check out the American Indian Center of Chicago located at:
1630 W. Wilson Ave. Chicago IL 60640 / 773-275-5871 aic50@aic-chicago.org

Cochise Anderson

An Interdisciplinary Performer

M. COCHISE ANDERSON (Chickasaw/Choctaw) – musician, actor, poet, spoken word performance artist, playwright, storyteller, and educator - studied at Portland (OR) State University and at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC. Cochise received the Jerome Fellowship for playwriting (“The Education of Benjamin Franklin”) and the Bush Artist Fellowship for Storytelling/ Performance Art (“The Only Good Poet is a Read Poet”). He has performed at The National Museum of the American Indian twice and The Open House Arts Festival at the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He has also been a repeat performer at the Lincoln Center Outdoors Series in New York City. As an award-winning playwright he has extended his craft by initiating a creative writing/spoken word theater for young Native students in the Twin Cities area. Cochise has been the instructor for The Penumbra Theatre's Summer Youth Institute and he has worked as a Native American cultural arts educator for the past seventeen years throughout the country. From elementary schools to colleges and national cultural institutions he has developed a variety of curriculums and programs to entertain and educate all people about the beauty and struggle of Native America.

Cochise, an accomplished professional actor, has appeared in off-off Broadway and regional productions as well as Film and Television. He founded and was the artistic director of Chuka Lokoli ("Community"), Native American Theatre Ensemble in NY with The Ensemble Studio Theatre. His acting credits include, (TV) The Cosby Show, Homicide: Life On The Streets, (Film) Daughters of The Dust, Bill's Gun Shop, and (Theatre) “To Kill A Mockingbird”, Great American History Theatre and he originated the title role of “The Independence of Eddie Rose”, Seattle Group Theatre. He recently completed a national tour playing Stevie Jackson in William S. Yellowrobe’s play “Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers”, Penumbra Theatre and Trinity Repertory Company. This summer Cochise was Kanati in the new retelling of "Unto These Hills" at Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee, NC.

Cochise Anderson's album, "The Kemosabe Therapy" an eclectic ensemble of "word songs", was nominated for the 2005 Indian Summer Music Awards in the category of Spoken Word.

To book Cochise for an upcoming event, you may email him at info@cochise-okcha-a.com.

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