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6 NOVEMBER 15, 2001 Smoke Signals Jr Nakoosa Moreland 1 ir Jordan Smith Paloma Griffin Jean Belgique 1 ' 1 ' '. ' ' ' ! .V ' ..... '.,1 Everyone regrets at least one decision made in his or her life. But we learn from those mistakes. Then we teach those who might be subject to make the same mistakes. Tribal member Brad Leno has done just this. Leno talked to the children who partici pated in the Red Ribbon Walk about how using alcohol changed his life this summer. Leno was the driver of a car that crashed into a utility pole July 18 killing passenger and friend Matthew Castellon and injured another passenger Evan Bailer. Castellon was the son of Tribal member Marilyn Porter. ''What I did was wrong and I regret it everyday," said Leno. "I lost a friend that night and I can never change that." l . w. J.- .. 4 .X. ,f .. si . r rl 4! 'ill :j i - 3r" ft. I I iJ lil Brad Leno , ' , r ' .:v,- Nique Olson Photos by Justin Phillips HollisTaylor Nancy Ives Concert Honors Pepper, Veterans; Entertains Locals Concert Violinist HollisTaylor is joined by friends to perform in Grand Ronde. Continued from front pap" Paris, France and Sydney, Australia. At the age of 18 she began her ascension in the musical ranks with the Oregon Symphony and later would go on to earn a Bachelor's De gree in Music, specifically Violin Performance. TT ' ITT - - ''4 't ... o A In 1982 Taylor raised eyebrows by winning the Oregon State Fiddle Championship and in 1986 she would work with the Oregon Arts Commis sion arranging and performing with the Sym phony for String Band. Portland film director Gus Van Sant would feature Taylor's material in two of his movies My Own Private Idaho and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Five years later in 1991 she drew earned ac colades for her first album Twisted Fiddle, and in the early 1990's she found herself living in Paris and touring Europe performing and re cording folk music. Since then Taylor has con tributed article, interviews and critiques for vari ous musical publications, and in 1996 composed her first album of original material, Unsquare Dances, while in Budapest. Regarding her piece "Birth on the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation" she declared to the crowd that her roots run through Grand Ronde. Taylor's grandmother, whom she is named af ter, was born here in 1876, in General Phil Sheridan's cabin. "Birth" then is a solo piece, and yet with enough activity to occupy a set of musicians. Taylor composed the piece merging an Iroquois drum song, a Kalapuyan song, and a Quath-lah-pot-tle (old Columbia River Tribe) cradle song. If that sounds complicated, that's because it is, and Taylor plucked, tapped, and caressed that fiddle, with bow and fingers, all to produce a sound that probably very few people in the audience knew a violin could create.
