Call to flute folks

Well I was living vicariously and surfing the web to see how INAFA went this year on the west coast... I read a call to arms that went up from the Northen California Flute Circle about Blogging. The claim was that it was easy to do and simpler than maintaining a web page for your flute circle.
Well since I could not fly out to California, I guess I have time to talk about our circle.

We are brand new this year and based in Elkins, West Virginia. We have had as many as 9 folks at a meeting including woodworkers, never evers and accomplished players so it is an exciting time to be in Elkins.
We meet the second Saturday of every month and I started this endeavor because one year of passionately pursing the flute has given me so much that I had to find a way to give back...
Leonard McGann told me to practice 10 minutes every day and those of you who know Leonard will appreciate - that this is where the trouble started (grin)
Leonard does not do web stuff much but his "flute fall inn" which is this year 10/20, 21, 22/06 is where I was first welcomed with open arms by the flute community and told "you CAN do this!" thanks folks - contact Leonard through the great directory at the bearded wolf website
http://www.beardedwolf.com/flutelinx.html#addresses

We (WVNAF Circle) meet at the Randolph County Community Arts Center - a great facility
http://www.randolpharts.org/
They are VERY supportive and the acoustics in this building are out of this world!
We also participate in a number of other sister circles that without their efforts we would not be here and so passionate about the music:
Potomac Flute Circle at www.potomacflutecircle.net
Maryland Flute Circle at www.beardedwolf.com/mdflutecircle.html
Northern Virginia Flute Circle LAKOTASPIRIT50@ADELPHIA.NET
International Native American Flute Association at www.worldflutes.org

The August meeting will be next weekend on Saturday the 12th and coincides with one of our cities favorite events, the Augusta Heritage Festival. The festival is the culmination of 5 weeks of adult education centered around folk and world music, dance and crafts. City park and the adjacent college campus will be a buzz of activity with concerts, dances, juried craft fair and of course corn dogs and home made ice cream as just a start. Don't miss the food booth just because you were listening to music!
http://www.augustaheritage.com/

We hope to have a few "traditional" instrument players drop in on our little circle to see what we are up to (grin) and we are always looking to make new friends. One of the hardest things to explain to someone about a flute circle is that you need not have a flute or play one to be there having fun.

Note to members that we will be meeting upstairs at the art center whenever the great hall is booked as it is this weekend.
Next week - details of this months meeting and maybe some more sharing of cool sites in the flute world.