Kanogisgi - Song-Carrier is the long-awaited solo debut album of traditional songs that Joan Henry fans have been asking for... "an outstanding soloist" - Show Business Magazine "I really enjoyed hearing the drum song...I hope the opportunity will arise for you to honor us again." --Bill Richardson, US Representative to the UN "Henry's singing is both inviting and challenging, as if she wants to share something special, but expects the listener to work for it." --SpiderBarbour, Woodstock Times In the theatrical and mainstream music world, her 'credits' embrace the Broadway 30th anniversary company of West Side Story, films, television and over 20 recordings in native traditional, contemporary, classical and jazz venues, with upcoming work "in the can". Hers is a recognizable voice. A respected hahesh'kah(lead drummer)and song-carrier for elders among the Nde'(Apache), Coast Salish, Shoshone, Tsalagi(Cherokee), Chippewa/Cree and other nations, elders identified her as a youth and guided her training, picking up where her grandparents began.Ms. Henry has founded a contemporary band - Noyeh-Ongeh, Mother Earth, an acclaimed traditional women's drum group - Mothers of Nations, and is a member of AEA, SAG, AFTRA and ASCAP performers' unions. She and her family make their home on Panther Mountain, where they welcome this season's thunders... Of her work Ms. Henry says,"A lot of elders have put a lot of time and energy into me; I have to honor that. With so many of them crossing over now, it seems time to be moving the songs out into the world because the Songs thread the people together, to one another and to the Earth. Songs make a living web, and reconnect us to all that supports and surrounds us..."