The heat was on but our Indigenous Music & Arts Festival was a success!!

Nya:wëh (Thank you) to all of you who attended, performed, vended, and helped to make Ganondagan's 2025 Indigenous Music & Arts Festival an amazing event! The heat was high but so was the positivity, we are grateful for the cultural sharing, relationship building, and love!

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Peter Jemison

Tonia Loran Galban Storytelling

ASL Interpreter

Ronnie Reitter Storytelling

Myaamia Delegation

Wampum Education Table

Uses for White Tail Deer educational table

Festival Volunteer at T-shirt tent

Michael Galban

Myaamia delegation demonstration

Myaamia Shaker

Basket Demonstration with Tonia Galban

Myaamia delegation in performance tent

All Our Relations participating artists

All Our Relations Tent

Bark Longhouse

Ans Jemison in the podcast tent

Derek and Gary visiting the Original Peoples Podcast

All Our Relations Tent

All Our Relations Tent

All Our Relations Tent

Lake Ontario Press printing on demand t-shirts

2025 Festival T-shirt

ASL Interpreter, Jonathan Hopkins interpreting in the performance tent

All Our Relations Tent

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Indigenous Spirit Dancers

Performance Tent

Flower City Arts in the Family Discovery Tent

Derek Miller & Gary Farmer performing in the auditorium

Gary Farmer and Derek Miller on stage in the performance tent

Gary Farmer

Derek Miller

Derek Miller and Gary Farmer

Derek Miller

Derek Miller and Gary Farmer

Derek Miller and Gary Farmer

Performance Tent

Samantha Jacobs at her vending booth

Nelson Garcia in his vending booth

Photo credit Alex Hamer Photography

Special thanks to -

Our Myaamia guests, George Ironstrack , Jared Nally, Doug Peconge, Nate Poyfair, Megan Sekulich, Scott Shoemaker, Kara Strass, Dani Tippmann, and Logan York

Haudenosaunee artists and demonstrators: Tonia Loran Galban, Tsioiannio Galban, Allie Hargrave, Kristin Asche, and Kalen Fontenelle.

Our 2025 Festival T-shirt designers: Tsioiannio Galban (Mohawk) & Megan Sekulich (Myaamia) whose shirt design completely sold out!

Performers: Derek Miller & Gary Farmer, Indigenous Spirit Dancers ( now known as Gaëni:yo’s Singers & Dancers), Ronnie Reitter, and Tonia Loran Galban.

Festival specialists - Alex Hamer, Matt Saxon @lakeontariopress, Stellar Sound, John Stewart/Parking & Security, Ansley Jemison @orignialpeoples_podcast, Peter Jemison, Saul Schuster

Support from NYSCA, Wegmans, RIT National Technical Institute of the Deaf, and Flower City Arts.

The festival wouldn't be possible without the help of -

Ganondagan State Historic Site Staff & Maintenance Staff, Friends of Ganondagan Board of Trustees, Friends of Ganondagan Staff, AND our AMAZING Volunteers!

We are also grateful for all of the Native American Art Vendors and Food Vendors that joined us for this special weekend!

If we left anyone out in our thank you's, it was not our intention - Please accept our heartfelt THANK YOU!