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YA'A'TEEH & WELCOME to the Jakey Skye website, you will find contact & information about the Artist and his flute music.
Schedule of Events & Past Performances
- October 2003 - Launching of the Jakey Skye website!
- October 17, 2003 - Jakey, Head Man Dancer at Western Navajo Nation Fair, Tuba City, Arizona
- November 19, 2003 - Flute performance for staff/children at Crystal Boarding School, Crystal, New Mexico
- November 21, 2003 - Flute/Dance performance at Sanders Elementary School
- November 27, 2003 - Skye Photo in Navajo Times
- December 5, 2003 - Dance Performance for Skye Family at the Red Rock Balloon Rally, Gallup, New Mexico
- December 2003 - Flute performance/song collaboration with Robert Carr at BirdSprings, Arizona
- January 17, 2004 - Flute Performance at Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, Arizona for Opening Exhibit "Navajo Saddle Blankets" (photo posted in Navajo Times)
- January 19, 2004 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday drum group performance with Star Lodge Singers at Window Rock, Arizona (group photo posted in Navajo Times)
- February 6 & 19, 2004 - Flute performance in Sanders, Arizona
- May 5, 2004 - Flute performance for J.O.M./Parent Committee at Zuni High School, Zuni, Arizona
- May 19, 2004 - Flute performance at St. Michaels, Arizona
- May 20, 2004 - Flute performance at Ft. Defiance Senior Center, Arizona
- May 23, 2004 - Flute performance at Red Rock State Park, New Mexico
- May 29, 2004 - Performance at PBR BULLRIDERS ONLY at Red Rock State Park (flute & family dance performances)
- July 25, 2004 Jakey's birthday; placed in Men's Traditional in Peach Springs, Arizona. Thank the Hualapi Nation for their kind hospitality!
- July 22, 2004 - Jakey featured in Navajo Times/Entertainment section.
- November 27, 2004 - Flute Performance in Istanbul, TURKEY with First Nations Dance Company
- January 28 and 29, 2005 - Western Experience 2005 with First Nations Dance Company in Amsterdam, HOLLAND
- February 2005 - hitting the "pow wow trail 2005": Tohono O'Odham PW in Sells, AZ., went to Round Rock, Arizona Pow Wow, Shiprock, New Mexico Pow Wow! Thanks to the pow wow committees for all your hard work!
- April 2005 Flute & Dance Performances at Canyon de Chelley, AZ, ASU Pow wow, Tempe, Arizona and the GATHERING OF NATIONS in Albuquerque, NM
- June 2005 "Head Man" Jakey Skye for the Atsa Butte pow wow, New Mexico www.atsabutte.4t.com
- August 20, 2005 - Flute Performance at ROUTE 66 Casino to Honor Nelson James.
- September 2005 & September 2006 Performed for Miss Navajo Nation Coronation and Crowning at the Dean C. Jackson Rodeo Arena in Window Rock, Arizona.
- May 12 & 13, 2006 Two-Years-in-A-Row "Back to Back Champion Traditional Dancer" at Roger Tulley's Memorial Contest Pow Wow in Chambers, Arizona.
- FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL Ollin Kan http://www.ollinkan.tlalpan.gob.mx/ Jakey one of several Native American Performers to appear the week of April 30, 2007 through May 07, 2007 in MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
- Flute & Pow Wow Dance performance in Monument Valley, Utah, Saturday MAY 12, 2007. Please visit http://www.redbullairrace.com/ for great photos! Amazing day for the Navajo Nation and the world as we welcomed the Red Bull Air Race to this beautiful location!
- June 9, 2007 Jake Head Man Dancer at Native American Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA - thank you to the committee and the students for this honor!
- June 29 & 30, 20007 Tuba City, Arizona USA - Jake Head Man Dancer for RAINY DAWN CONTEST POW WOW!!
- July 14, 2007 FLUTE PERFORMANCE in Edgewood, N.M. USA for the Wildlife West Nature Park.
- 2008 - California Flute & Dance Performance.
- October 10 & 11, 2008 - Western Navajo Fair & Pow Wow, Tuba City, Arizona Jakey & Debbie Skye honored to serve as Head Man & Head Lady Dancers.
- November 21, 2008 - Jakey Skye & The Starr Skye Family Dancers Cultural Dance Performance at Sanders Elementary School, Sanders, Arizona
- December 28, 2008 - Wedding Performance in Monument Valley, Utah!
- February 13, 2009 - MYSTICAL ART FESTIVAL 2009, ISTANBUL, TURKEY with FIRST NATIONS DANCE COMPANY, Jakey & Debbie Skye.
- May 31, 2009 - Flute & Speech Presentation by Jakey Skye for the Wellbriety Movement featuring The White Bison Journey: http://www.whitebison.org/
- September 26, 2009 "Return To Freedom Event" September 2010 ''Return To Freedom Event" http://returntofreedom.org/
- November 2011 - Sanders Middle School Parent Conference, The Starr Skye Family Dancers Cultural Dance performance, Sanders, Arizona.
- January 11, 2011 Navajo Nation Presidential Inauguration in Window Rock, Arizona
- January 2012 Grand Opening on the New Navajo Casino, Northern Edge
Ya'a'teeh! May you Walk In Beauty!
FIRST NATIONS DANCE COMPANY Owned & Operated by Richard Donaghey:
After four successful albums and numerous dance/flute performances, Jakey has had the opportunity to experience other cultures, languages, and travels internationally...
Jakey would like to thank many of the people he has met and spoken with in his travels internationally, for the opportunity to have visited their respective countries. And especially for their gracious hospitality, Ahehee! Thank you!
Also, my humble thanks & appreciation for recognition with Terri McIntyre's website, please visit at: http://www.terrimcintyre.net/music.html
Please visit this website, the Sierra Blanco Photographers, of which we were proud to be featured in beautiful photography in Monument Valley, Utah, December 2008: http://www.sierrablancophoto.com/
