'Sacred Ground - A Tribute to Mother Earth' Wins Grammy(R) Award for Best Native American Music Album!!!

'Sacred Ground - A Tribute to Mother Earth' Wins Grammy(R) Award for Best Native American Music Album!!!

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- "Sacred Ground - A Tribute to Mother Earth" took home the Grammy for Best Native American Music Album at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards show tonight. This is the first win for executive-producer Lisa Thomas and Katahdin Productions, which released the CD on September 13, 2005. It was distributed through Silverwave Records.

The album drew accolades for its mix of electronic grooves and traditional styles and was quickly praised as one of the coolest collections of contemporary Native music to be released in years. The compilation album features some of the most well-known and renowned Native American artists working today, including; 2005 Grammy winner Bill Miller, two time Grammy nominee Joanne Shenandoah, and Grammy Winners Primeaux and Mike, best selling artists Robert Mirabal and Walela (Rita Coolidge, Priscilla Coolidge, and Laura Satterfield) and highly acclaimed artist Star Nayea.

Shenandoah, who performed in a Tribute to Joni Mitchell at Carnegie Hall last week, was previously nominated for a Grammy for her solo work and has co-written and recorded with Neil Young. In fact, Young penned the final track on Sacred Ground, "Mother Earth," which was also used in the award-winning documentary Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action. Both Shenandoah and Walela perform on the track.

The entire album was conceived as a companion to the acclaimed documentary, which recently aired on PBS stations across the country, as well as a positive call to action to save the environment. Homeland takes an in-depth look at the environmental hazards threatening Native American reservations and is one of many socially-conscious entertainment projects released by the Katahdin Foundation, a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation based in Berkeley, CA and led by Thomas, who is the Co-Founder/Former CEO of Clif Bar.

Katahdin has a number of new projects in development, including a documentary on photographer Dorothea Lange and Indian Country, a four-part series that will follow the history of Native Americans from the turbulent years following the Wounded Knee massacre through today.

For more information on Lisa Thomas, Katahdin Productions, or The Katahdin Foundation, please log onto www.katahdin.org.

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