A Celebration of Native Music & Cuisine

Join us for an evening of gripping Native music & tasty Native cuisine. Singer-songwriter PENNY PITCHLYNN of LABRYS will play a set, while award-winning Chef NICO WILLIAMS dishes up complimentary traditional Native food & beverage samples. Take home a free commemorative glass.

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FOUR SISTERS FRITTERS (gf, vv): haba beans, golden masa, winter squash, sunflower seeds + fresh herbs, served with sumac + cucumber yogurt sauce.

BISON MANOOMIN MEATBALLS (gf, df): served in a roasted red pepper sauce.

STRAWBERRY TAJIN CAKE (gf, vv): with whipped crème fraiche.

CHICHA MORADA: traditional Peruvian purple corn punch with pineapple, lime, clove, cinnamon and agave nectar.

LABRYS is a music project forged by PENNY PITCHLYNN (Choctaw), a singer-songwriter rooted in Oklahoma City. Combining a graveled low end, ruminative vocals, and vulnerable lyrics, LABRYS wields a heavy yet agile sound. Fans of Lucy Dacus, Jack White, and PJ Harvey will find familiar stripes in LABRYS, and those aware of Pitchlynn’s role as one-fourth of acclaimed indie band BRONCHO will spot a knack for riffy bass lines.

NICO WILLIAMS (Cherokee) is the founder and director of Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness in Tulsa. She grew up in California and Arizona clocking many hours in her mother’s garden and in the kitchen preparing family meals. After relocating to Northeastern Oklahoma, Nico embraced her return to the post-removal homeland of her mother’s people, and embarked on a journey to learn traditional Cherokee ways, dishes and the wild and cultivated ingredients involved in their preparation. This grew to encompass the Indigenous cuisines of tribes from all parts of North America, and led to her involvement in Indigenous food revitalization and food sovereignty. She is the recipient of the Greater Tulsa Indian Affairs Commission Dream Keeper’s Award for Leadership in Business and the Cherokee Phoenix Seven Feathers Award for Culture. She serves as a culinary diplomat for the US Department of State Arts Envoy program representing North American Indigenous foodways in international spaces. Her work has been featured in Food Network Magazine, USA Today, Hulu, Smithsonian Institute, BBC, Cherokee Nation’s OsiyoTV, PBS and PRX, among others.

Tickets $32 advance/$40 door. Doors at 6:30, event from 7 – 9 PM.