Cherokee youth choir nominated for NAMMYs

September 15, 2008 01:00 am

— TAHLEQUAH — Celebrating the Cherokee language in song, the Cherokee National Youth Choir has been nominated for two Native American Music Awards (NAMMY). The group is nominated in the Best Gospel/Inspirational Recording and Best Historical Recording categories, for its latest CD, “Precious Memories.”
According to the organization, the Native American Music Association and Awards have nominated approximately 1,500 artists and honored 300 winners over the past decade. The awards ceremony will take place on Oct. 4, at the Seneca Entertainment Center in the Seneca Casino and Hotel in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Fans of the Cherokee National Youth Choir and other Native American musicians can vote online for their favorite artists at www.votenative.com or www.nativeamericanmusicawards.com. Voting will end Oct. 4, the day of the awards ceremony.
Since being founded in 2000, the group has recorded six CDs, including “Voices of the Creator’s Children,” featuring two-time Grammy Award winner Rita Coolidge, which garnered two Native American Music Awards (NAMMY) nominations and a win for Best Gospel Christian Recording in 2002. In total, the group has received four NAMMYs.
For more information about the Cherokee National Youth Choir, contact Mary Kay Henderson at 478-4473 or Kathy Sierra at 453-5638.