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!
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!
Labels: Clint Goss, flutes WV, Jan Seiden, Leonard McGann, Miami Valley Flute Circle, NAF, OK Flute Festival, Peter Phippen, Sunwatch Flute Festival, Yosemite Flute Festival
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