Joy Harjo and the Arrow Dynamics Band Kick off Indian Market Weekend at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s Annual Native American Music Under the Stars.

Joy Harjo is a vibrant multi-dimensional/multi-cultural talent. She’s a poet/songwriter, sax player, singer, and author. Her roots extend from her birthplace in the Mvskoke Creek Indian Nation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Santa Fe where she attended the Institute of American Indian Arts. After graduating from the University of New Mexico she began writing poetry that was multiply influenced by Southwestern Indian music her musical interests—including Nat King Cole and Charlie Parker—and native philosophies, the native rights movements, to the stopping place of wildly urban Los Angeles, and eventually to her home now in Honolulu, Hawaii.

She is as well-known in the poetry world as the music, winning numerous awards for her more than ten published works. Two of her more locally-known awards are the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in Arts (1997) and the Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship