Artist description The White Oak Singers are a Northern Original Style Pow Wow Singing Drum Group. Our group consists of family relations and friends located in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area.

Music Style Native American Pow Wow Style

Musical Influences Northern Original Native American Style Pow Wow Music

Similar Artists Mandaree Singers!

Artist History The White Oak Singers were formed in 1989, when Colin Bearstail moved to White Oak, Maryland from California. After his arrival, he approached several tribal relatives living in the area about starting a singing group. Several of the original members had never sang before. The original members included Colin Bearstail, Wayne Howard, Lawrence Baker, Wes Picciotti, Sonny Reeves, Silas Satepahoodle and Bill Larocque. Colin used his knowledge of the original singing style of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, to teach these young men the songs of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara people.

Group Members Colin Bearstail,(Arikara/Hidatsa) Wayne Howard,(Arikara/Hidatsa) Clayton Old Elk (Crow) Will Reeves II (Mandan/Hidatsa)Phil Reeves (Mandan/Hidatsa)Delvin Reeves (Mandan/Hidatsa) Darryl Swift (Hidatsa/Lakota)

Instruments Hand Made Native American Drum

Albums Echoes From Home, Recorded Live

Press Reviews In the early 1990's, the Discovery Channel commissioned the drum group to sing for the production of the documentary, "How the West was Lost." We provided several songs that eventually were used in the final production, that aired on PBS, TBS and the Discovery Channel. In the September 1999, the group was honored to be the Host Drum for the Ground Breaking Ceremony in Washington, DC for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

Location Bethesda, Maryland - USA

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).