Concert Band

Songs of the Western Mono Tribe is based on a rare 1960 recording of tribal songs archived by the Californian Indian Library Collection of Fresno County.  “Song for One Becoming a Medicine Man” and “Handgame Song” were the source for the composition orchestrated for young band.  The recordings of tribal songs were were made in the home of Western Mono Yokut Native Americans Sam Sample, May Sample, Emma Cheepo, and Maggie Marvin.  Songs of the Western Mono Tribe was commissioned by the Foothill Middle School Band, Auberry, California – D’arcy Weinberger, Director. Several members of the band are from the Western Mono Tribe, located on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Central California.