Montezuma Creek • The Martin sisters stood in a thatched shade hut beside an abandoned corn field on the northern Navajo Nation awaiting a command from a film director. It was early March, and ...

Lately I've been composing nonrepetitive melodies, as most Navajo traditional music doesn't repeat melody lines. The trumpet alone holds a lot of western-influenced melodies.

It was 2015, and Benally — a Diné (Navajo) and San Carlos Apache DJ and producer — had worked for days in Bluff to remix “Burn Your Village to the Ground,” a song by the all-indigenous ...

It's like traditional dance music. Lyrically, it's mostly audibles," says Bilagody, who counts Natay as one of his primary influences. "He was half Navajo and half Comanche.

That’s the initial contact that led me to sing traditional music.” Cody, who was named Miss Navajo Nation in the late 1990s, also learned to speak her native tongue.

The trumpeter’s trio takes inspiration from traditional Navajo songs. Its work has stirred up global interest, as well as conversations about the responsibilities of Indigenous artists.

Allison and Yazzie, who release music under the moniker Dirt Rhodes, are part of a generation of young Navajo country musicians trying to both define what it means to be a Navajo country musician ...

"Music is powerful," she says. "Music can absolutely save lives." At Leupp High School, on the western edge of the Navajo reservation and about 45 miles northeast of Flagstaff, Ariz., only 9 of 19 ...

“Their ability to fuse traditional Navajo music with modern jazz is both inspiring and groundbreaking.” This concert will be a fantastic evening for fans of jazz, world music and ...