Fri, Feb 16
|SJI Grange
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: CARRY IT ON
Join us at the SJI Grange for this free screening - Buffy Sainte-Marie: From folk sensation to tireless Indigenous rights advocate over six decades.
Time & Location
Feb 16, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
SJI Grange, 152 First St N, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
About the event
Friday Harbor Film Festival’s FREE Best of the Fest series begins with showing Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On at the San Juan Island Grange on Friday, February 16 at 7 pm, followed by a pre-recorded Q&A about the film with Executive Producer Kyle Irving.  No ticket or RSVP is required.
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: CARRY IT ON
Experience the story of the Oscar-winning Indigenous artist from her rise to prominence in New York’s Greenwich Village folk music scene through her six-decade groundbreaking career as a singer-songwriter, social activist, educator and artist.
WINNER: BEST ONLINE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On chronicles Sainte-Marie’s rise in New York’s Greenwich Village folk music scene through her groundbreaking career, featuring never-before-seen archival material, new performance footage and interviews with Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell (singer, songwriter, artist), Sonia Manzano (Maria on Sesame Street), John Kay (lead singer-songwriter of Steppenwolf, solo artist), Robbie Robertson (musician), Jackson Browne (musician), George Stroumboulopoulos (music journalist), Andrea Warner (author) and more.
Over a career spanning six decades, Cree musician, artist, and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie has used her platform to campaign for Indigenous and women’s rights and inspired multiple generations of musicians, artists, and activists.
Thank you to our 2024 Best of the Fest Sponsors!
Presenting Sponsor: SaviBank
Media Sponsor: Cascade Public Media | KCTS9