Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Directed by Dana Heinz Perry
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This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's Native American background. Half Mohawk on his mother's side, the film follows him back to the Six Nations reservation in Ontario where he spent summers growing up and picked up his first guitar. The resulting album, "Contact From the Underworld of Red Boy", draws on his childhood First Nation influences and includes musical collaborations wth Native artists such as John Trudell, Rita Coolidge and Buffy Ste Marie.Read moreLess
This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's Native American background. Half Mohawk on his mother's side, the film follows him back to the Six Nations reservation in Ontario where he spent summers growing up and picked up his first guitar. The resulting album, "Contact From the Underworld of Red Boy", draws on his childhood First Nation influences and includes musical collaborations wth Native artists such as John Trudell, Rita Coolidge and Buffy Ste Marie.
The story
This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's Native American background. Half Mohawk on his mother's side, the film follows him back to the Six Nations reservation in Ontario where he spent summers growing up and picked up his first guitar. The resulting album, "Contact From the Underworld of Red Boy", draws on his childhood First Nation influences and includes musical collaborations wth Native artists such as John Trudell, Rita Coolidge and Buffy Ste Marie.
Cast & crew
Robbie RobertsonSelf - Mohawk/Cayuga
Rita CoolidgeSelf - Cherokee
John TrudellSelf - Santee Sioux
Floyd 'Red Crow' WestermanSelf - Sioux
Derek MillerSelf - Six Nations musicianExplore the crew
- Director
- Dana Heinz Perry
- Producer
- Dana Heinz Perry
- Editor
- Dana Heinz Perry
- Director of Photography
- Hart Perry