Evan Pritchard

Evan, of MI’kmaq and Celtic descent, is a Juilliard-trained musician, guitarist, composer. He has been doing field interviews with Native American elders since 1990, and has been the director of Center for Algonquin culture for the last 24 years.

A lecturer on native studies at Vassar, Pace, Marist, Columbia, SUNY, John Jay, University of Ontario, UMass, and Ramapough State, he has also presented at Gracie Mansion, AMNH, Smithsonian, and on line. He is currently presenting a retrospective of his mapping work at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries (Clarkson University), and has been invited to lecture at Lehman College this spring. He has written over fifty books on native culture, history, language and spirituality.

He has performed some of his compositions live for up to 6000 people. His solo CDs include River Song, Earth Dance Anthology, Contemplations, Dancing Among the Clouds, Long Lost Feeling, and others.

Evan is best known as the leader of “Tribal Harmony,”an ever-changing collective of Native American musicians performing together before live audiences in all styles, and is its opening act, educator and impresario.