2026 Indigenous Music and Arts Festival Highlights

Our 2026 festival brought together peace, education, and positivity! Nya:wëh (thank you) to the volunteers, staff, performers, artists, and educators whose contributions made this year's festival possible.

This year's lineup included the Zuni Olla Maidens along with Haudenosaunee social dancing by the Allegany River Seneca Dancers, our special guests; artists and performers Shelly Morningsong (Northern Cheyenne/Scandinavian) and Fabian Fontenelle (Zuni/Omaha), singer-songwriter, Tonemah (Kiowa/Comanche/Tuscarora) and storytelling by Tonia Loran Galban (Mohawk, Bear Clan)and Ronnie Reitter (Seneca, Wolf Clan).

Our Indigenlous Music and Arts Festival was made possible by contributions from the New York State Council on the Arts, Wegmans, The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), a college of Rochester Institute of Technology.