Dawn Avery

[citation needed] As a leader of meditation and creativity workshops, Avery has worked with healers such as the Dalai Lama, Rick Jarow, Ron Young, and Hilda Charleton.

[citation needed] Rapidly Approaching Ecstasy: Music for Movement and Meditation features world grooves on the Hindu chakras along with a guided visualization track.

[citation needed] While Avery performs solo, she has additionally collaborated on famous pieces, even receiving a Grammy nomination for her works as a vocalist and cellist on Grover Washington's album Breath of Heaven (1997).

Avery has toured around the world playing Delta blues with the Soldier String Quartet, Persian funk with Sussan Deyhim, and operatic repertoire with the New York City Opera Company.

Avery has also toured with the North American Indian Cello Project, in which she premieres contemporary classical works by Native composers.

The showcase was an hour-long show, where Avery also incorporated a traditional dance to Down Tempo Native American music.

[citation needed] Our Fire consists of native contemporary songs, choral chants, jazz, and cello.

5 for solo cello in C minor, interspersed with, "improvised vocal line in a traditional falsetto style and a Buffalo drum line composer by Avery and performed by Steven Alvarez," and credited to Bach/Avery under the title "Sarabande", which she later performed under the title, "two worlds", which has been described as an example of the "non-interference" as embodied by the Eastern Woodlands wampum belt.

[1] Robinson emphasizes the difference between the two styles as a possible refusal or lack of desire or necessity to integrate, while writing with Levine, he and Robinson also discuss the, "unified...naturalize[d] mixtures," although they confirm that Indigenous musicians in writing, specifically R. Wallace and Avery, "often," emphasize, "common philosophies more than similar musical languages," and that this piece forces examination of these topics.