Swil Kanim has been featured on KIRO TV NEWS, National Public Radio’s Earth on the Air, Northwest Public Radio, NW Cable News Network and the Canadian Chum Network’s New Canoe.
In addition to working on 24 episodes of CBS's Northern Exposure, his music and acting ability were highlighted by starring in Sherman Alexie’s critically acclaimed The Business of FancyDancing.
He was selected to perform as part of the Bellingham’s Sister City Program in Teteyama, Japan where he continued on to Seoul, Korea for a memorial/reunion concert for orphans of the Korean Conflict.
The Indigo Girls asked Swil Kanim to be their opening act in Seattle to kick off the Honor the Earth Concert tour of North America.
Swil Kanim also performed for five years with the Growth and Prevention Theater Company (GAP Theater), based out of Seattle. The GAP Theater Company presented professional plays about racism and varying forms of bigotry for institutions across the Great Northwest.
He has done school assemblies for elementary and secondary education in Washington State, British Columbia, Canada, and in Sitka Alaska.
He has performed for the staff and participants of Re-habilitation Centers, Burn Survivors Camp, Youth Leadership Forums across the state of Washington.
At the American Indian Film Awards in San Francisco, Swil Kanim has performed for the past 4 years, he was featured on the soundtrack of a documentary about Indian Boarding Schools, which won the Best Documentary award.
Swil Kanim has received the Certificate of Virtuosity from the Whatcom Chapter
of the Washington State Music Teachers Association, the Bellingham Municipal Arts Award for Promoting Self-Expression in Community, and Woodring College of Education Professional Excellence Award.
In February of 2004 he perfomed with Andre Feriante and Paulo Cesar at Benaroya Recital Hall in Seattle, WA and in 2006 with Famed Pianist David Lanz
He continues to take his music and message wherever the road takes him hoping to inspire kids and adults alike to find their "violin"!
I am so delighted by the opportunities blooming in your life! Cheers to the fertilizer years and deep reaching, intertwined roots. ;-)Thanks for being. I love you my friend.
today was beautiful in so many ways, the Samish tribe now has a totem pole. I was honored to bless the pole and give it life this morning by playing my eagle flute to ALL * * * smile for me :)
boozhoo! Well, hope to run into you again somewhere down the road. I am going to Sask in Aug for the fiddle contest... see you somewhere sometime... later, CougarTracks
Just dropping in to say I really like the SNOCAP addition!! That so rocks!! Love your music of course. HOPE to see your talent down this way!! You would have a great time here in so. cal! Take care of you and travel safely, and have a great summer :) Always. Fawn Lily
NYAWENHA FOR YOUR WORDS. YOU ARE A VERY GIFTED PERSON. IT'S AN HONOR, SWIL. THANX FOR THE ADD/REQUEST!!!....MUCH RESPECT. STAY TUNED FOR MUCH MORE.....
As you may have heard, the Bush Administration said each of us would get a rebate check to stimulate the economy.
If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China . If we spend it on gasoline it will go to the Arabs, if we purchase a computer it will go to India, if we purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, if we purchase a good car it will go to Japan , if we purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan and none of it will help the American economy.
We need to keep that money here in America . The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it at yard sales, since those are the only businesses still in the US .
I am looking forward to Friday the 2nd of May. Need my heart strings tuned, a feel all loose and squeakie. I am bringing somebody very special with me to Stewarts that evening. I will keep myself busy so the week goes by reallllllly fast. Be well -Antonella Celestina with a frog dancing spirit!!
Tomorrow morning we are going to run consecutive runs of songs on 3 major radio stations here in the Pacific N.W for the awards, we will use the first 8 groups that submit a song for this advertisement radio airing. It will be a huge advertisement opportunity for what ever groups submit first. consecutive runnings mean your song will play every 24hrs. until 5-3-08, material must be excepted by the f.c.c, contact us via myspace e-mail , nativewarparty@netscape.net or call our buisness line, must be only a WCAIMA performer 2008 no exceptions
Boring and unpredictable? uh, ya... whatever dude... I think NOT! Hope life is treating you well. Spoke to Gene briefly a while ago. Take good care and stay in touch...
Thank you for a wonderful Friday night at Stewarts! My sister *Laura Dawn* was so moved by your music and words, that even now when she tries to talk about the experience she cries. She has already arranged it with her work that she will be free to join me every first Friday to be in your presence. How lucky we are to be so loved/blessed/honored/remembered. Thank you again- Thank you for just being you.
So how are you guys doing? Im getting setteled in here in Montana, I now have a Montana Drivers license so I dont have to use my turn signels any more I thought a conciled wepons permit came with the drivers license but we get a conciled wepons permit were we get marrage licenses wonder if??? Agape, Richard
You are all invited…to a video showing with entertainment. So far Elaine Miles and Arlie Neskahi have confirmed to participate with a possible of appearance of C. Morin of ATOLL from Denver, CO.
I hope you all can attend. I am sharing interviews taken from Joe Garcia (President of National Congress of American Indians), Floyd Westerman, Elaine Miles (yes, she will be there in person also), Para Fe (maybe, she will be there in person), Cecelia fire Thunder and many other Natives. I have collected more interviews from my trips to California, Nevada, and Colorado.
With the recent article in Ebony Magazine entitled “What does Indian Blood Look like?” and also an article in the recent issue of Playboy….I guess you could say the issue is hot! We would like to invite Indians and non-Indians alike. All of our American brothers and sisters. We are all a part of the community at large and the “Harlem Indian” would like to share with you some of the complexities of our American Indian identities with Questions and answers afterwards…and entertainment before hand. And possibly we can video tape the dialogue if it ok with the participants. Let me know if you are interested!!!
