Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum will host the renowned Delbert Anderson Quartet Jazz Band today for two free events – a community workshop at 10 a.m. and a community concert at 6 p.m.
Anderson, a jazz trumpeter, educator and member of the Navajo Nation, brings his band to share cultural stories through Diné musical journeys that he fuses with jazz, jam and funk.
He describes each piece as a pathway where he preserves Indigenous culture through musical stories that embody healing, history and collaboration.
The band joins forces with other tribes to expand on Indigenous narratives and connection, including the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe at Canyons of the Ancients and the Hopi Tribe at Bears Ears National Monument.
The band has received many accolades, such as the Cultural Capital Fellowship 2023 from First Peoples Fund. In 2022, the quartet served as the artist-in-residence for the Bureau of Land Management.
“The show was fire. The music had a punch and a passion to it,” an audience member said in the comment section on their website for a show they played in Reno last month.
