Tickets for Tribute to the Spirit: Little Big Band are available through Brown Paper Tickets. $20 for general public, $10 for Burke Members, $5 for students. KCTS members recieve a 25% discount on general admission tickets. For more information call 206-616-6473.

The Burke Museum presents an exciting evening of Native American music, storytelling and dance at Meany Hall. Little Big Band, Swil Kanim, Gene Tagaban, Nicholas Galanin, Philip Charette and others, representing over seven First Nations, will take the stage in a powerful presentation of the resurgent spirit in evidence throughout Northwest Native communities today. Their performances will combine the best of contemporary rock, rap, and jazz with deep resonances of traditional Native culture. The combination is uplifting, evocative, and a stinging rebuke to anyone who believes their cultures have faded away.

Tribute to the Spirit: Little Big Band is an unprecedented gathering of Native American performers who are coming together to commemorate the end of the 100th anniversary year of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (A-Y-P). This concert comes at a time when Northwest Native Americans are poised to honor the resurgent spirit that flows through their communities today. The Tribute to the Spirit: Little Big Band November 20th concert and the related A-Y-P Symposium on November 21st, complement the Burke Museum's current exhibit A-Y-P: Indigenous Voices Reply. The exhibit, concert, and free A-Y-P Symposium are all part of the citywide 100th anniversary of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

The exhibit A-Y-P: Indigenous Voices Reply highlights sixteen contemporary artists who respond to the way that indigenous peoples were represented in the 1909 fair. The November 20th concert serves as a performance-based continuation of those responses, and features several Native American artists who are also represented in the Burke exhibit.

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