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Bonnie Jo Hunt is an operatic singer who has performed with the San Francisco Opera and Opera Southwest of Albuquerque. On Friday, she brings her lyric coloratura soprano voice to Scripps College in Claremont.
But don’t expect “Madame Butterfly” and “La Traviata.” Hunt, a Hunkpapa Sioux and a descendant of Chief Mad Bear, who fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, concentrates on American Indian music.
Selections will include traditional Indian women’s songs, works presented in Indian sign language and songs about Indians from musicals and operas.
Wearing traditional attire, Hunt will perform a Sioux love song in her native Lakota language, as well as songs in Cheyenne and Choctaw.
Hunt founded Artists of Indian America in 1980, a performing arts organization that aims to raise self-esteem among Indian students through performances by professional Indian and non-Indian artists.
She will deliver Scripps College’s commencement address on May 19.
The recital, at 8 p.m. in Balch Auditorium, is free and open to the public.
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