Juneau Community School: Interview with Suzanne Ainsworth, school coordinator. Indigenous music fusion: Interview with Pura Fé, Rock Aak’w Indigenous Music Festival headliner. Liyuan Zhang says Juneau’s beauty and wildlife have been a big influence in her work (Photo courtesy of Liyuan Zhang).

Tonight’s UAS Egan lecture looks at Alaska’s health insurance challenges.

Liyuan “Sunny” Zhang, the Juneau Artists Gallery’s featured artist for November.

Juneau Community School adds some in-person classes to its fall schedule.

On this Friday’s Juneau Afternoon, she talks about bringing contemporary Native music to the forefront of the mainstream music industry. Not only does she have faith in the power of music, but has built bridges to all her different musical heritages, both Indigenous and Euporean, from Tuscarora to Taino, to Puerto Rican, African American and Corsican.Īnd like many of the performers at the Rock Aak’w Indigenous Music Festival, which gets underway on Friday, she is both an artist and activist. Her name in the Tuscarora language is Yęhskwètih, or “She builds bridges,” in English.īoth names seem to fit. Pura Fé’s name means “pure faith” in Spanish. Pura Fé won a Native American Music Award, known as a “Nammy” for Best Female Artist for ‘Follow Your Hearts Desire.” She also won a French version of the Grammy, an L’académie Charles Cros Award for her ‘Tuscarora Nation Blues’ album (Photo courtesy of Jack Storm Photography).

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