*NOMINATED FOR THE INDIAN SUMMER MUSIC AWARDS 2004*
Native Spirit category
http://www.indiansummer.org/festival.htm
*Winner 2005 SILVER ARROW AWARD
*Four time (three years in a row) WAMMIE NOMINATED (WAMA-Washington Area Music Association) singer songwriter for vocals, songwriting, album, and production.
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Georgie Jessup has an extraordinary ability to encourage audiences to look deeply into their prejudices and other transgressions. Consequently, audiences tend to respond emotionally, if not always lovingly. Georgie has developed a successful career by challenging musical styles, personal identifications, and storybook history lessons. She has released four CD's AMERICAN HOLOCAUST, RED CLOUD'S ROOM (aka SWEET GRASS SMOKE), WINKTE & CRAZY SACRED DOGS and WOMAN IN A MAN'S SUIT. On their 2003 Native Heart Urban Soul release, Austria's own Big City Indian recorded her song, Red Cloud's Room, from RED CLOUD'S ROOM.
AMERICAN HOLOCAUST is a controversial CD. The title caused the album to be banned at many radio stations before anyone listened to the music. Those who listened heard carefully crafted songs illuminating the dignity of all people, and they heard an artist pleading for the preservation of a country founded on the principles of life, liberty, and justice for all. American Holocaust is a story that needed to be told. And not just for the Indigenous People of Turtle Island (Native Americans) but also for the descendents of the Euro-American invaders who now occupy the North American continent. The reality is that many forms of genocide were used, (and in many cases continue to be used today), to force various Native American nations into submission and assimilation! This is nothing new in the history of the Roman-Christian Empire who destroyed the independent European Nations who tried to live with Grandmother Earth instead of against her. Many people ask why we should care what happen? When we do not learn from past mistakes we are doomed to repeat them over and over! Indeed, it continues today! When George Bush stood in front of Mt. Rushmore in the summer after 9/11 to promote his plans for the Patriot Act and Homeland security, he condemned terrorism and spoke about evil people who hate our freedom. George Bush was a history major and surely knew the history of the Black Hills and that the Lakota Nation called those hills “the heart of everything that is” and considered it the most sacred place on earth! The U.S. Court of Claims commenting on the aquisition of Paha Sapa (where Mt. Rushmore is located) said, "A more ripe and rank case of dishonorable dealings will never, in all probability, be found in our history." Murder, rape, starvation, germ warfare, lying, cheating, and cultural genocide, were all used to attain the Black Hills. In other words, the American government were the terrorist in this case. So what was ignorant George doing standing there in front of Mt. Rushmore preaching his propaganda? He was letting his corporate buddies know nothing was going to change! We will secure the oil rich fields in the middle east by any means we have …even the sacrifice of innocent American people. Innocent American people were led physically and by propaganda into a Country that by treaty they had no right to enter. The U.S.A. knew that the treaty said no white people were suppose to enter the Black Hills with out the expressed permission of the Lakota and other Nations who signed the 1868 treaty which stated that this was Lakota territory for “as long as the grass grows and the river flows”! But pioneer families being killed by the hundreds certainly painted the Indian people as terrorist and haters of “American Freedom”. All of this should sound familiar about now. But don’t take my word for it. Read your history. Listen to American Holocaust. Read the news. See what hasn’t changed with our “leaders” throughout American history! Buy American Holocaust. Give copies to your friends. Use them in your classrooms. Let the healing begin and let the darkness fade to enlightenment!
Georgie has performed at the Bowery Poetry Club, Collective Unconscious, and the Knitting Factory in NYC - the 8x10, Max's On Broadway, Hammerjacks, Recker Theatre, the Roxy, and many other Maryland/DC cafe, clubs and bars. - Sydney's Blues /Club in Rehoboth Beach, DE and various concert events including the Indian Summer Music Awards (the largest Native American gathering of it's kind in North American), ArtScape in Baltimore, City, Washington DC Pride, Pride in The Arts Festival in WV, various powwows through out the country also in Vancouver, B.C. for the gathering there.
"Georgie sings from the heart, like a rare flower in a wilderness. She speaks to us about the deepest issues. Issues that all of us should care about, but so many of us pretend don't affect us. Georgie reminds us that we are all related in our human condition and struggle. And Georgie reinforces that we are all trapped by gender and physical being,and that the brightest life and light we have is our soul."
Candye Kane: Sire Records recording star-r&b/blues singer songwriter
www.georgiejessup.com
We need more artists like (Georgie Jessup) to keep the circle strong. I'm listening to (American Holocaust) CD, I haven't heard it for a while. I'd forgotten how much energy (Georgie) put into it. Everything, (Georgie) put everything intoit, and it comes through 'Loud n' Pround'...great work...
John Gregg Sr.(Hopi/Inuplat) Assistant Manager, American Indian Radio on Satellite (AIROS) www.airos.org
Jessup's songs, with their strong messages and anthemic choruses, make you want to join in even if you have never heard them before...organic and rootsy yet open to the world
Bob Steele, Mid-Atlantic Gay Life
wonderfully spiritual
Natalie Davis, The City Paper
I have yet to be touched as deeply and meaningfully as Iam by 'American Holocaust'...haunting songs and powerful words
David Baker, The Baltimore Alternative
My sister warrior, I will remain your ally and your friend until every battle's won
Author/activist Leslie Feinberg(Beacon Press & Firebrand Books)
cold soul, thrill seeking, motown social-conscience funk
Eve Ziebart The Washington Post
certainly one of a kind...thought provoking lyrics
Michael Apted Osiris Films / director THUNDERHEART, GORILLAS IN THE MIST, INCIDENT AT OGLALA
very radio friendly...belongs on the better half of the top-40
Linen Shorts Dirty Linen Magazine
thank (Georgie)for caring about what words...can mean to the soul!"
Chris Bohjalian author; PAST THE BLEACHERS,WATER WITCHES, MIDWIVES,TRANS SISTER RADIo, Contributing writer for the Boston Globe,Reader's Digest
an ambitious undertaking...'Greed', and 'Let Us Be' give AMERICAN HOLOCAUST a poignant punctuation...that would make Marlon Brando proud....Truth is, each and every puzzle piece of this ten song opus is a memorial to our original forefather,(Native Americans)
Mark Bound Music Monthly Magazine
prvocative....It, (AMERICAN HOLOCAUST), questions the values that put "progress" before humanity and answers that the only true progress is acting in harmony with earth, sky, plants,animals, and...fellow humans
News From Indian Country Magazine
I liked the songs and the vision
Jim Musselman Appleseed Recordings
Congratulations! As a result of some very enthusiastic reviews from garageband.com members...'Hoka Hey' will be Track of the Day
Ivy/Band Services garageband.com
powerful work...really got me moving..." "Gripping...grabs you right from the start..." "I love it....A really feel good...tune that says something catchy yet original"Wonderful! I can't think of a thing to make it better!" "Sign (them ie Sweet Grass Smoke / Georgie Jessup)now, now, now...absolutely beautiful...absolutely mesmerizing..."
Reviews garageband.com
INTERESTING QUOTES BY THE FOUR PRESIDENTS & OTHERS ON MT.RUSHMORE
"Commemorating America's political accomplishments"
Gutzon Borlum, 1925, on creating Mt. Rushmore
"lay waste all the settlements around...that the country may not be merely overrun but destroyed"
George Washington
"...to pursue[the Indians]to extermination, or drive them to new seats beyond our reach."
Thomas Jefferson
"I don't go so far as to think that only good Indians are dead Indians,but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."
Theodore Roosevelt
"render it secure for the advancing settler."
Ordered the largest official mass execution (of Indians) in history in which guilt of the executed could not be positively determined.
Abraham Lincoln
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