Ed Littlefield

Ed Littlefield / Shaakindustóow – Lingít

Ed is a freelance percussionist, educator, and composer based out of Seattle, WA. He is Lingít from Sitka, Alaska and has released three albums featuring traditional indigenous melodies, which he also arranged into the jazz idiom with the Native Jazz Quartet. This quartet also represented the United States in South America and India as “Jazz Ambassadors”. He has also composed and performed for film and theaters around the country. Currently he is working on a three-year project to create the first ever Lingít opera which will combine traditional contemporary Lingít melodies inside the western opera genre.