Singer-songwriter Annie Humphrey, the Native American Music Awards' 2018 Artist of the Year, will perform Saturday, Nov. 10, at Northern Michigan University. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre. Her performance is in conjunction with the U.P. Beaumier Heritage Center's exhibition, Ancestral Women. Tickets are $5 for the general public and $1 for NMU students.
Humphrey grew up on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation. Her father was a singer and musician, her mother an artist and poet. Although both of her parents were brilliant individually, they created sadness together.
“I lived in a home filled with voices made of thunder and nothing could stop it,” Humphrey said.
Humphrey attributes music to being what saved her, carrying out her parents gifts through music today.