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M. COCHISE ANDERSON

(Chickasaw/Miss. Choctaw)

TRADTIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY STORYTELLER ~ TRADITIONAL AND BLUES MUSICIAN

Most Recent Performances

Mar.- Apr. 2008 – Presented multiple Native American music workshops with Twin Cities students (grades 1 – 4) as part of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Cultural CONNECT program.

Feb. 2008 - Performed as Master of Ceremonies (MC) with the New Mexico Symphony in Brent Michael David’s’ (Mohican) “Powwow Symphony” the University of New Mexico, February 15^th, 16^th and 17^th.

Dec. 2007 – Performed one-man concert, “The Kemosabe Therapy,” and an informal student discussion on the concept of there being no word for “art” in our Native languages at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN.

Aug. Sept. 2007 - Director for youth theatre/storytelling residency with Stepping Stone Youth Theatre Development at Rondo Public Library, St. Paul, MN.

Aug. 2007 – Headlined the Ventura Village stage at the Ancient Traders Market as Chicago blues band COCHISE & The Crossbloods. (See work sample)

June 2007 – Performed as both a solo spoken word/storyteller/musician and as COCHISE & The Crossbloods at the Fine Line Café in downtown Minneapolis, MN.

Apr. May 2007 – Directed a two-week storytelling/creative writing/performance residency at Choctaw Central High School, Choctaw, MS.

Apr. 2007 – Performed his one-man concert, “The Kemosabe Therapy,” as part of the Indigenous In Music Spring Concert at the Fine Line Café, in downtown Minneapolis, MN. (See work sample)

Mar. 2007 – Storyteller & traditional musician for the Bruce Museum as part of their month-long Young People’s Concert Series for students and general audiences, Greenwich, CT.

Feb. Mar. 2007 – Performed with The American Indian Dance Theatre in the Opera Omaha’s world premiere of, “Wakonda’s Dream,” in Omaha, NE.

M. COCHISE ANDERSON

Notable Performances

Sept. 2004 – Traditional storyteller and musician at the Raven Stage at The Grand Opening of the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC.

Sept. 2005 – Performed one-man concert, “The Kemosabe Therapy,” as opening act for Bill Miller at the Rasmussen Theatre and as traditional storyteller on the outside rotunda as part of the first anniversary of the opening of The National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC.

Sept. 2005 – Performed one-man concert, “The Kemosabe Therapy,” as part of the Open House Arts Festival in the Theatre Lab at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC.

Aug. 2003- 04 – Spoken-word performer, traditional musician, and MC at La Casita as part of the Outdoor Series at Lincoln Center, NYC.

Feb. 2006 & June 2007 – Performed his spoken word/storytelling concert, “The Kemosabe Therapy,” at The Circle (’06) and at The Gallery (’07). In June 2007 he also had a staged reading of his play, “Braided Lives,” presented in conjunction with the Aboriginal Theatre Initiative, at The Gallery at the American Indian Community House (AICH) NYC.

Oct. 1992 – 2003 – Performed as a storyteller and traditional musician for local schools for the week, as well as the Chickasaw Annual Festival and Meeting, Tishomingo, OK.

May 2001 – Performed traditional stories as well as, “The Only Good Poet is a Read Poet,” as part of the Native American Symposium, “Smoke Signals/Smoke Screens” held at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, (SOSU) Durant, OK.

Aug. 2006 – Performed one-man concert, “The Kemosabe Therapy,” as well as excerpts from his one-man theatre piece, “The Only Good Poet is a Read Poet,” in a special presentation at The HOOP Conference at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

June- Aug. 2006 – Performed as “Kanati” the first man, in the re-telling of “Unto These Hills,” directed by Hanay Geiogamah, Cherokee, NC.

Mar. 2005 – Performed traditional stories and one-man spoken word concert, “The Kemosabe Therapy,” at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Leyard, CT.

Aug. 2005-Feb. 2006 Cochise appeared as Stevie Jackson in the national tour of William S. Yellowrobe Jr.s play "Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers", directed by Lou Bellamy of The Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, MN in conjunction with Trinity Repertory Company in RI., CT.

Feb. 2005 - Cochise appeared as Mr. Gilmer & Boo Radley in "To Kill A Mockingbird" at the Great American History Theatre. Ron Peluso, Artistic Director.