Autumn Flute News

First, the disappointing news: Leonard McGann's annual Flute Fall In will not be scheduled for this year and Leonard tells me that they may try it again next year, stay tuned.

2009 Potomac Native American Flute Festival – Put it on you Calendar! The sixth Potomac Native American Flute Festival will be held the weekend of March 27-29, 2009 at the Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, MD. Confirmed performers include Scott August and Autumn’s Child featuring Mark Holland on Friday night; and Mark “Thunderwalker” Camden and The Jeff Ball Band on Saturday night. There will also be a 90 minute Saturday afternoon concert featuring 3 artists: Jan Seiden, Jonny Lipford, and the duo of David Landis and Diana Sunday (from the DC-local group KIVA). Workshops will be held throughout the event, which is scheduled to run from 3:00PM Friday, March 27 to 3:00PM Sunday, March 29. This years Potomac Native American Flute Festival features the theme "Winds of Change."
The Potomac and Northern Virginia Flute Circles web site is being completely renovated, so please check back in a few weeks for further details and how to register. Some additional festival information is posted at their web site (see links at the right)

From Clint Goss; “I've just updated the version of Edward Kort's NAFlutomat program that is available on FluteKey.com to the latest version. It is now version 1.37.1. (Ed'snumbering omits the leading "1." and is just 37.1).Version 37.1 is a minor update from the long-standing version 37 that has beenposted in the Files section of this group since December '07.”Here's the link: www.flutekey.com and scroll down to the third section "Flute Construction" and click on"NAFlutomat - NAF Design Tool"

Jan Seiden has another great concert event coming up. Jan states “I have honor and great pleasure of appearing in concert with Arvel Bird (southern Paiute and violinist extraordinaire) and Art Shegonee (Menominee dancer) in a concert to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association.”

In Concert: Arvel Bird, Jan Seiden and Art Shegonee
Friday, November 21, 2008 7:00pm
Calvary United Methodist Church, Annapolis, MD
Tickets: adults $15.00 advance, $20 at the door, children 5 - 12 yrs; $5.00
for tickets, call Randy Sisulak at: 410-721-3963

Fall Flute News

FLUTE QUEST 2008 -- Sept. 19, 20 & 21
Sponsored by the Washington Flute Circle, is an event that seems to be enjoying great commitment and enthusiasm each year. This year’s line up again looks great.
http://www.flutequest.com/

Vince Chafin
Gary Stroutsos
SATURDAY NIGHT CONCERT
7:00 - 9:00 PM

Ancient Sounds *
Jan MichaelLooking Wolf Reibach

Other Flute Festivals or Flute Events to check out

9/5 - 9/7 Indian Summer Fest in Milwaukee, WI http://www.indiansummer.org/
9/26-28 Native Arts and Flute Festival, Oakhust, CA http://www.yosemiteflutefest.com/
10/31 - 10/5 Oklahoma Flute Festival, Cherokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah, OK http://www.okflutefest.com/
10/11-12 Silverhawk Flute Gathering, Florida http://www.silverhawkflutegathering.com/
Wow, your carbon footprint would be preety huge to attend all five of these in the same year...

Jan Seiden has been performing with Arvel Bird, and will be giving a joint concert in MD on Friday November 21st in Annapolis to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association.


Clint Goss has made available to Native Flute folks who may be interested - a new set of fonts for transcribing music. The fonts contain finger diagrams for Native Flutes (and fujaras) and are useful if you are creating transcriptions of music for flutes.

The fonts are freely distributable, and can be used on any system that can display TrueType fonts such as Microsoft Word, Finale, Sibelius, PrintMusic, etc.
They are on Clint Goss’s web site: http://www.NAFTracks.com/fonts.htm


It has been a busy past few weeks but our flute circle did sent a small delegation to the Sunwatch Flute Festival. While fuel prices may have hurt the overall attendance for this year’s event the good folks that were there had a great time. Sunwatch Archeological Park is a great spot for the event and offers lots of room as well as wonderful exhibits and grounds to explore. Saturday was a blockbuster line up of performers and if you were able to stay in the shade to avoid melting you caught some great music. John DeBoer, Spirit of Thunder, Peter Phippen, Jeff Ball and his band, Jan Seiden, Janice Trytten Sunflower, Jonny Lipford were all given about an hour and we had fun learning new tricks and discussing the performances along with the symptoms of heat injuries.

Flute Makers were at Sunwatch in great numbers and it was fun to see work from David Martinka, Leonard McGann, Brad Young, Brent Haines, Billy Crowbeak, Larry Evans, Randy & Shelly Stenzel, Dave Myers in the vendor area. We saw a lot of great instruments and ran into flute friends from Indiana Flute Circle, Potomac and Pennsylvania Flute Circle and friends from Timber Flute Festival – new NAF players! This event is close to home and has a good feel – it should continue to grow and do well. Hats off to the Miami Valley Flute Circle for pulling off a great weekend.

WV NAF Circle meets this Saturday Sept 13 from 1-3pm at RCCAC. Hope to see you there!