Stone Heart Pulses to the Beat of Patrick Shendo Mirabal

Stone Heart: Everybody Loves a Journey West is a Native Voices at the Autry National Center presentation.

Los Angeles (PRWEB) February 13, 2006 -- The “haunting tribal melodies” (LA Weekly, 3/10/05) of Patrick Shendo Mirabal (Jemez, Taos Pueblo) return to the Autry National Center’s stage for the premiere of Stone Heart. February 17-March 12, 2006.

Under the musical direction of Native American musician, composer Mirabal, Stone Heart is adorned by a unique soundscape of Native flute, cello, fiddle and African drums. This talented cast transforms the stage into the Mandan Village, the Great Falls, the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains. Experience the torrents and the snowstorms, the Northern Lights and the pouring rain, the devastation of the Bitter Roots and the magnificence of the Pacific Ocean.

About Stone Heart: Everybody Loves A Journey West
Behind her was a history of betrayal. Before her was an entire continent. Sacajawea, the young Shoshoni woman accompanying the Lewis and Clark expedition, discovers an unlikely bond with a black slave named York. Together they discover that sometimes the most treacherous journey of all is one of the heart.

Stone Heart Cast
Thirza DeFoe (Ojibwe, Oneida) as Sacajawea, Jed Reynolds as York, Tim Glenn as Lewis and Clark and Patrick Shendo Mirabal (Taos Pueblo and Jemez).

Musicians
Patrick Shendo-Mirabal (Jemez, Taos Pueblo)
Charlie Otte
Stephen R. Green
Fred Curtis (San Carlos Apache, Yaqui), Understudy

For more information regarding Patrick Shendo Mirabal: http://www.patrickshendomirabal.com/pages/27/index.htm

For Calendar Editors:

Behind her was a history of betrayal. Before her was an entire continent. This is the story of Lewis and Clark’s 1804 - 1806 Corps of Discovery told for the very first time through the eyes of Sacajewea and York, the Shoshoni woman and the African slave who courageously traveled to the sea and back.

Tickets: General $20, Autry Members $12

Call TicketWeb for reservations at 866.468.3399, or visit www.ticketweb.com. Groups of 10 or more save 20%. Group leaders and schools, please call 323.667.2000, ext.391

At the Autry National Center in Griffith Park, across from the L.A. Zoo, where the 5 and the 134 freeways meet. For more information go to www.autrynationalcenter.org

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