Red Moon Blues | Reflections of Native Voices Festival Tickets

Red Moon Blues is a cabaret-inspired survival story about the Indian boarding school system and historical trauma that Indigenous Women have the burden to carry. It is loosely based on the first Native American Movie Star of the silent film era Actress & Performer Lillian St. Cyr aka Red Wing (Winnebago/Ho-chunk) and Henu Josephine Tarrant’s parallel career & grief as Lillian’s descendant. It highlights Lillian’s survival of the Indian boarding school system, removal from her traditional homelands and her career that lead her to New York City. Parallel stands Henu’s survival of Covid-19, grief, and the industry whose perception of Native Art has not changed as much as necessary since Lillian’s lifetime. Lillian’s life is the family Urban legend that exists in all families that have family secrets. Red Moon Blues is the undoing of Indigenous family secrets held universally. This piece weaves stories and poetry through time periods in flashbacks ignited by music (SERPENT written by Henu). Created as a reminder that we are only as sick as our secrets & the grief we are too comfortable to heal from.