Scott August
ScottAugust.com
Native American Music Award winner, and Indian Summer Music Award winner, Scott August is a nationally acclaimed composer, producer, keyboardist and Native American flute player known for his unique blend of Native American flutes, world instruments, and ambient soundscapes. His music can be heard nationally on public radio and the digital radio networks Sirius, XM, Direct TV and Music Sojourns as well as Jet Blue and Frontier airlines. Echoes Radio recently picked August last CD as their CD of the Month for December 2007 saying, "August has always been a cut or two above most native flute players... August sets [the Native flute] in a vibrant global landscape...and lets it drift into ambient space”
His awards include a Native American Music award, along with three nominations, an Indian Summer Music award and a LifeStyle Music award for best Native-New Age recording in 2007.
One of the nation’s most influential performers of Native American and Anasazi flutes, August is recognized for both his award winning music and extensive knowledge of the Native American flute. Recent appearances include the 2008 Yosemite Flute Festival and INAFA convention; the 2006 and 2007 Zion Canyon Flute Festivals, In July 2005 he opened for Dr. Wayne Dyer at the International New Age Trade Show and he was a musical guest at the 2005 TED conference.
August currently has five recordings, Distant Spirits, Sacred Dreams, New Fire, Lost Canyons and his DVD Ancient Light, which has aired on selected PBS affiliates.
As an educator August is known for his comprehensive workshops for Native Flute and Anasazi flute instruction, composition, improvisation, and the more practical aspects of recording, music production and the music business. His book The Complete Guide to the Anasazi Flute has become the standard source for information about this unique instrument.
Visit Scott August at Cedar Mesa Music www.cedarmesa.com
In addition to his performance, Scott will be holding workshops!
He will be updating workshop information shortly. Scott will also be offering private lessons
on NAF, Anasazi, Mojave, Mojave 6, and Quena
flutes.
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Michael Graham Allen
www.coyoteoldman.com
Michael Graham Allen
photo credit: Jim Harlan
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Artist, flute maker and musician Michael Graham Allen has been researching
and reintroducing New World flutes since the 1970s. Recording since 1985,
his band, Coyote Oldman continues to be a pioneering force in contemporary
Native American flute music. His performance will feature Ancient Anasazi flutes
as well as Mojave, Yuma and other obscure rim-blown flutes + some surprises.
Latest recordings:
Rainbird: Return of the Anasazi Flute 2004
Under an Ancient Sky 2008
New recording to be released 2009
TWO FREE WORKSHOPS OFFERED:
1. "In Pursuit of Ancient Flutes"
For the past 3 decades Michael Graham Allen has researched artifacts,
fashioned replicas, composed music and enjoyed a 20-year career as
a professional recording artist.
Length: 1 hour
In this informal lecture, you will have the opportunity to handle replicas of
historical flutes and explore little-known instruments including the Anasazi,
Hopi, Mojave and Yuma flutes among others. This will be an overview of
ancient North American flutes based on documented artifacts.
2. "Playing Anasazi Flute: A Workshop for Beginning,
Intermediate and Advanced Players"
Michael will touch upon the history and construction of the Anasazi and other
rim-blown flutes and help you begin or expand your personal exploration of this
family of mysterious ancient flutes of North America.
Limit: 30 participants.
Length: 1.5 hours.
Michael Graham Allen
Coyote Oldman (band)
205 265 0751
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Gary Stroutsos
www.garystroutsos.com
Stroutsos performs world flute music drawn from traditional cultures. Evoking a spirit of place, and the voices of the land, his work
includes internationally acclaimed recordings at sacred sites.
Stroutsos is currently presenting his work in a series of concerts and talks designed for educational, cultural and historical institutions
and performing arts centers. His music was showcased in the Ken Burns PBS documentary “Lewis and Clark: Journey of the
Corps of Discovery” which led to a command performance at the White House for President Bill Clinton. Songs and stories from
this experience will be part of his presentation.
Originally trained as a Jazz flutist, (studying with Jazz master flutist and composer James Newton, and Afro-Cuban flute master
Danilo Lozano) Stroutsos’ work now features American Indian music and Chinese, Cuban and American Jazz stylings, reflect
ing his diverse musical influences. His audiences have the rare opportunity to hear ancient Chinese Bamboo flutes seldom heard
outside the walls of China.
Himself a Greek-Italian American, Stroutsos is acknowledged to have made a distinctive contribution to the preservation of
American Indian music and culture, and plays with some of the finest American Indian artists working today, including collaborating
with Navajo flute maker Paul Thompson, a work which expresses the enduring legacy of the American Indian flute and its recent
revitalization into today’s society.
Gary will offer private lessons!
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Stephen DeRuby
Stephen is a World Music recording artist on the DOMO record label who is featured on numerous radio stations worldwide. As an accomplished flute player and multi-instrumentalist, his "Sacred Spaces" CD received candidacy for a Grammy nomination for Best New Age Album.
That album is hailed as "sensuous sonic perfume" by Bill Binkelman from the New Age Reporter.
And, John Diliberto, from Echoes writes: "Sacred Spaces is a spirit dance of musical exotica."
Other reviews describe Stephen's music as: "an ambience of cascading mysterious charm."
His much anticipated “Awakening” CD is soon to be released.
Stephen has been a musician since 1961 and first heard the Native American flute in ’89 at a Medicine Wheel workshop.
Deeply moved and hearing the call, he became a flute maker, who for the last 20 years is "Known for Tone”.
Stephen is also known as an innovator of unique flute designs. His latest creation is the deep, full tones of the ez-Anasazi style flute.
Stephen has devoted a lifetime to Music, Crafts, and Healing for Spiritual Expression, Service and Right Livelihood. He has drawn much inspiration from the music of indigenous cultures East and West and the practice of yoga/meditation since 1970.
Stephen lives near Yosemite where he creates music in his studio and crafts flutes in his shop.
"I am grateful for these gifts and all the people who partake of my offerings.
It is my intention to create music that expresses the mystery and gently yet deeply touches the listener.”
www.deruby.com
http://www.myspace.com/stephenderuby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igwr3lve5TQ
http://ezinearticles.com/?id=2067133
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