JOY HARJO has been performing music with her poetry since the early 1990's when she founded the reggae-tribal-jazz-rock band, Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice.

Joy Harjo's most recent album, I Pray for My Enemies, digs deep into the indigenous red earth and the shared languages of music to sing, speak and play a stunningly original musical meditation that seeks healing for a troubled world.

Since her first album, a spoken word classic Letter From the End of the Twentieth Century (2003) and her 1998 solo album Native Joy for Real, she has received numerous awards and recognitions for her music, including from the First Americans in the Arts, First Native American Music Awards, American Indian Film Festival, and New Mexico Music Awards. Harjo won a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year for her 2008 album Winding Through the Milky Way.

Harjo performs with her saxophone and flutes, solo and with pulled-together players she often calls the Arrow Dynamics Band. She has performed with guitarist Larry Mitchell, bass player Rene Camacho, Oliver Lake’s band, bass player Michael Davis from MC5, Keith Stoutenberg, and many others. She has performed in Europe, South America, India, and Africa, as well as for a range of North American stages, including the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, the Cultural Olympiad at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Def Poetry Jam, the International Poetry Festival in Medellin, Colombia, and the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington D.C.