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The 2014 Thursdays in the Park Concert Series continues with a performance of Native American songs by the Nettukkusqk Singers on Thursday evening, August 21, 2014 from 6:30-7:30 PM. The free concert takes place in New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park’s garden, 33 William Street, downtown New Bedford. In the event of inclement weather the performance will be moved indoors to the National Park theater.
The Nettukkusqk Singers are an intertribal group of southern New England women performing traditional and contemporary songs accompanied by hand drums, rattles, and water drum. In the Natick dialect of Algonquin, “nettukkusqk” means “my sister.” Formed by Wampanoag and Nipmuc women from Rhode Island and Massachusetts in 1994 at the Deer Island Memorial, The Nettukkusqk Singers sought to reclaim women’s drumming and singing traditions from their tribal communities. Singing in English and several dialects of southern New England Algonkian, the Nettukkusqk Singers continue to perform at traditional venues in their home communities, pow wows and festivals.
