The internationally known members of the Pyoor band will hold an exciting live music session of pieces from their album “Native American”, written and produced by the Pyoor Collective group.

Along with songwriters Umberto Marzotto and Scott Donaldson, who wrote the music after their encounter with the Navajo nation are the following: Jonny Rosch, vocalist, on keyboard and harmonica, who has worked with great international stars such as Cyndi Lauper and Joe Walsh, and a legendary experience in the original Blues Brothers Band.

John Putnam, one of the best guitarists in New York, has worked with the likes of artists Madonna, Simon & Garfunkel and Bruce Springsteen, as well as having played on many television and radio programs.

Susan Carol Williams, a versatile artist, excellent acoustic bass and electronic guitarist, has had many important jobs and also teaches music at the Barthelson School of Music in New York.

Sammy Merendino on percussions, during his career has worked with Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin and Michael Bolton and many others, as well as having appeared on important television programs such as the David Letterman Show. Sammy has been on tour all over the world making him known to audiences in the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan.

After Radmilla Cody, one of few Native American women to tell about her people through her music, another woman has arrived in Venice to support Pyoor and its band: Tabitha Fair, of “Chicasaw” descent, guest star of the evening.

Tabitha was raised in Oklahoma, grew up to gospel music, which she discovered in her father’s church: her first album as a soloist was produced when she was only 15, marking the beginning to a brilliant career.

She has worked with Amy Grant, Wynonna Judd and Faith Hill in Nashville and sung in duets with important stars like Sting, Travis Tritt, Sam Moore, Mary J. Blige and Beyonce.

Together with songwriter Phil Galdston, Tabitha is now concentrating mainly on her soloist project.

In the Urban Dictionary, PYOOR, which means pure as well as excellent, is a group project whose intention is to tell of minor development in light of obvious decline of prevailing patterns. These lesser worlds have known how to survive twentieth century doctrines and the sole thought of consumerism. They have known how to protect their language and their culture. And they are able to dream of their own future because they feel no desire to make a clean sweep of the past.