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Henry Medicine Bear Reid (Music Director, Composer, Arranger, Sound Designer)
A former member of the group Mannheim Steamroller, which had a
number of platinum-selling albums, as well as a Grammy Award. Henry Medicine Bear Reid studied under composer Henry Mancini,
and played sessions with the group “The Carpenters” in the early years of the band.
With multiple film scores
and television segment cues, Henry has show a wide diversity in musical styles. As a keyboardist, through the years, Henry
has also acted as Music Director for live performances for Phillip Earl Johnson, and Buddy Big Mountain, and is presently
working on music CDs for both performers. Also he is working on scores for Special Television segments, and website presentations
for Cedars Sinai Medical Center. He has submitted performance arrangements, suggestions for album content (Christmas Albums),
and local orchestral performance with Mannheim Steamroller. He has been called to work on post production sound editing and
sweetening for the Ethnomusicology Department at UCLA on the Sidi Goma radio spots. He is also a Composer/Arranger for Animation
projects at UCLA Department of Animation.
Other works include an album honoring the Apsaalooka Tribe, Popular Folk and
Children’s Songs arranged and performed in various jazz motifs, and Orchestral Works covering Classical and Thematic
Soundtrack Music.
Henry’s ancestry which includes Native American Apsaalooka or Crow is currently making arrangements
to tour India, with The Buddy Big Mountain show, and will be the composer, Arranger and Music Director for the project, as
well as other International recording and goodwill efforts, sponsored by The Smithsonian Institute, and American Institute
of Indian Studies.
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Michel
Tyabji (Music Director, Recording Engineer,
Sound Designer, Composer)
Michel has been producing music for Limitless Sky Records, an independent record label focused on music from Tanzania,
Zimbabwe, Gunea, India and Iran. In 2003 three of the albums on that label made the list of Grammy nominations. African musician
Ndala Kasheba’s album, “Yellow Card,” was named best of 2003 by the New York Times, and Robert Christagou
(probably the most noted of music critics) said “Yellow Card” is what “guitar heaven is made of.”
Michel has acted as Sound Engineer for Multiple Live Venues including the Gene Autry Museum. He is in demand for multiple
Television projects, and has worked on multiple sets as sound recorder.
Michel is always involved in a diverse
range of productions and acted as music and post audio supervisor for the “Dalai Lama Renaissance”.
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Buddy Big Mountain (Composer,
Lyricist)
Buddy carved his signature as a Ventriloquist Comedian in the late 1980's which put him
on the map as the first Native American ventriloquist and soon became one of Indian Country's most popular comedy entertainers
of today. From a rich heritage, Buddy is part Mohawk, Welsh and English on his mother's side and Comanche and Apache from
his father's side. Buddy is a member of the Iroquois Nation and is a registered member of the Mohawk of Kahnawake Tribe of
Canada. For over 30 years, Buddy has been a well respected
role model for the Education and Performing Arts by offering one of the best School Assembly Shows that leaves the staff,
students and surrounding communities with a smile on their face, a song in their heart and leaves them laughing until he returns.
Whether performing for 1 or 40,000 people at schools, theaters, night clubs, casinos, cruise ships,
television, films or corporate events, Buddy continues to blend his own Grassroots style of comedy, bringing it to all the
door steps around the globe and sharing the knowledge of his rich heritage as an American Indian.
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