City of Socorro recently issued the following announcement.
Date(s):
Saturday November 21, 2020
Time:
7:30 pm
About the Artist:
Robert Mirabal is a Pueblo musician and Native American flute player and maker from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico.
His flutes are world-renowned and have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of the American Indian. An award-winning musician and leading proponent of world music, Mirabal performs worldwide, sharing flute songs, tribal rock, dance, and storytelling.
Mirabal was twice named the Native American Music Awards’ Artist of the Year, and received the Songwriter of the Year award three times. He was featured in Grammy Award winning album, Sacred Ground: A Tribute to Mother Earth in 2006 for Best Native American Music Album
Mirabal also published a book of storytelling poetry and prose in 1994 entitled Skeletons of a Bridge and is currently writing a second book, Running Alone in Photographs. Aside from his artistic talents, Mirabal is a father and a farmer, living in Taos Pueblo and participating in the traditional ways and rituals of his people.
Robert has performed in Socorro several times, the first time as part of the launching of the PBS program about Mirabal: Music from a Painted Cave; the second time as an NMTPAS conceived collaboration performance and intensive outreach activities with NM-based internationally renowned dance company Dancing Earth, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts; and the third with his own NM-based band and special performance by the Zuni Dancers, this during Festival of the Cranes.
Original source can be found here.
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