April Meeting at Royal Bean 4/26/08
Flute Folks, It’s time for a laid back NRFC gathering again. Let’s meet at the Royal Bean Cafe. (We have met there before) We’ll set up a mike for you Fluties who want to play – but no pressure to play. It will be a great time to come talk with other players about flute playing technique.Bring along a Native Flute CD or two for show and tell. We always want to hear about new flute artists & good music.
The last time we were at the Royal Bean, some of us went downstairs to the under-building parking deck to play. The acoustics are great down there! You ought to come and check out that sound!
Hope to see a bunch of you on the 26th…
What: Neuse River Flute Circle April gathering
When: Saturday, April 26th – 10:30 a.m.- noonish + (as usual) Where: Royal Bean Café located directly across from the main entrance to Meredith College at 3801 Hillsborough St. in Raleigh (behind Ben and Jerry’s)
John Kincheloe
Duke Powwow - March 29
There will be a monitor at the Allen Building parking lot, so just tell them you are with the powwow and they will let you park. If you need to unload anything they will let you pull through the Chapel Circle to drop off. There will be signs to the parking and signs from the parking to the site. If you follow the directions on the link to Duke Chapel, we’ll be on the quad right next to it. We will need to register upon arrival so they know we are there, then they’ll walk us to or point out our setup locat ion and they will have taped a sign on the table.
Links to maps and directions:
http://maps.duke.edu/parking.php?pid=P044&bid=7753
http://maps.duke.edu/parking.php?pid=P003&bid=7753
March Circle Gathering on 3-08-08
Our next gathering will be March 8th from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or so. This time we will get a chance to learn about some online resources for finding and creating sheet music for our flutes. (Thanks, Gantt!)
We will meet at Meredith College in the Science and Mathematics Building, Room 162.
Here are links to a map and some directions:
http://www.meredith.edu/about/campus-map.htm
http://www.meredith.edu/about/directions.htm
We’ll also have plenty of time to share information about upcoming flute events & to play some good songs. Having a problem with your flutes? Got a technique question? Bring your questions on the 8th! We’ll have some morning munchies on hand.
Hope we see you then…
Keep making the music!
John Kincheloe
February and March NRFC Gathering Dates
Flute Dudes and Dudettes, In our never-ending pursuit of variety in our Flute Circle meetings, we have settled on something totally different for February. Tooters and non-tooters alike should really enjoy this: on Sunday, February 24 from 1 - 3 p.m., we will gather at the Holshouser Building at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. (Some of us know that round building as the “Village of Yesteryear.”) There will be a “Native American Art Show & Sale” going on that day from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. The dealer, Buddy Wheet, who brings this show to Raleigh, comes from Albuquerque, NM, where he finds a lot of great Pueblo and Navajo jewelry, pottery, and wood carvings. I’m sure we will be in for a treat when we meet there.
Admission is free, and Buddy has given us permission to play our flutes there — as much as we want. He always has plenty of tribal music CDs for sale, and he loves the music of the Native American Flute. We will have a mike and a speaker set up for anyone who wants to play a bit. So come to play if you want. Come to browse. And come to hang out with your fellow fluties. New players: this will be a great time to ask questions of Circle members about your playing. We’ll have a very informal meeting that day.
Looking ahead to March, you may want to pencil in a meeting on the 8th of March. That will be a gathering at Meredith College, where we are hoping Gantt will school us in online resources for creating easy-to-use sheet music for the Native American Flute. Gantt has created several pieces of sheet music that are published online. Now he’s gonna show us how to do it! We will also spend some good time just swapping flute news & playing for ourselves for a change.
So here it is again:
February meeting
When: Sunday (yes, Sunday), February 24 from 1-3 (come earlier if you want)
Where: Holshouser Building, State Fairgrounds in Raleigh
What: We enjoy the “Native American Art Show & Sale” and we get together, talk flutes, and some may want to play a little.
March Meeting
When: Saturday (yes, Saturday), March 8 from 10-noonish
Where: Meredith College (room details to follow)
What: We learn about online resources for creating sheet music for our flutes; we also hang out, talk, swap flute tips & info.
How does that sound? Drop me a line sometime, and tell me about what you’d like to do at an upcoming Circle gathering. It’s your Circle! Tell us what you’d like us to be doing!
John Kincheloe
January Meeting at NC Museum of History!
Flute Circlers, At last I have heard from the NC Museum of History! They are getting back from holiday vacations & they have made a decision. We will be playing at the NC Museum of History on Saturday, January 12, 2008. We will meet at the museum at 9:30 a.m. at their little cafe’ in the lobby. They say it will be open for coffee & eats. When we arrive we can talk a bit about what we will play and who will play. (And we can generally talk about the flute stuff Santa brought us…) Then we will head out to the main lobby area to play from 10-12 noon or so. Many folks will be coming in on that Saturday because it is the next to the last day of the show! People will ask us questions about the instruments and the songs, I am sure. It will be great fun & a good time to educate folks about the instruments. It will be pretty laid back & not very formal. We’ll take turns playing and talking with each other.
And we will get free admission to the exhibit of the John White watercolors from 1585 of NC Indians, flora and fauna. We need to give them a head count. To get admission to the museum show on that day I need to get a head count of who will be there. Please send me an email telling me if you will be there. If I don’t hear from you, there will not be a complimentary ticket for you! Please send email to both of my email addresses: mcclinto@meredith.edu and kincheloej@meredith.edu That way I will be sure to get your reply.
Looking forward to seeing (and hearing) you on the 12th,
John Kincheloe
A Report on Our NRFC Workshop with R. Carlos Nakai
John Kincheloe
Introductory Flute Class Offered Early in 2008
John Kincheloe
kincheloej@meredith.edu
Flute Music at NC Museum of History Through Jan 13
Here’s some information that some of you may not have gotten. There is a very interesting exhibition at the NC Museum in downtown Raleigh that will run through Jan. 13. Once in a generation the British Museum brings out all of John White’s original watercolor paintings done in 1585 of North Carolina Indians — the Coastal Algonquian peoples of Secotan and Pomeiooc. We have all seen these images reproduced in museums and books. These images are amazing snapshops of Indian life before European contact changed traditional lifeways forever. See: http://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/lostcolony/site/about.html
As you wander through the exhibition you will begin hearing some rivercane flute music in the ambient sound audiotrack that is playing in the space. NRFC member John Kincheloe contributed that music — done on three different rivercane flutes — as a way to remind museum visitors that when the first Europeans came to North America, they were greeted by people who came to the shores playing flutes. We NA Flute players today are exploring a very ancient musical tradition. We are really playing the oldies!
The museum also used John’s NA Flute music on the downloadable audiotour. These background songs were recorded at the museum on flutes made by Hawk Littlejohn, and NRFC members David O’Neal and Jon Norris. (Stops 3, 8,9, & 10 are good samples) http://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/lostcolony/site/about.html#audiotour
Raleigh Concert with R. Carlos Nakai & Keola Beamer
Get your tickets now for the Tribal Voices concert featuring R. Carlos Nakai and Keola Beamer: November 30, at the Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh.
From the Pinecone website:
“Native Voices brings together two legendary musicians from America’s indigenous peoples-Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai and Hawaiian slack key guitar virtuoso Keola Beamer -touring together for the first time to promote their collaborative CD, Our Beloved Land, on Canyon Records. R. Carlos Nakai, the world’s premier performer of the traditional cedarwood flute, journeyed to Hawai’i where he spent time fitting the haunting melodies of his flute into the soulful songs and brilliant arrangements of Keola Beamer, the world’s most revered living slack key guitarist. The result is a dramatic new music that seamlessly blends traditional elements of both American Indian and Polynesian Island styles: original songs, traditional Navajo-Ute and Hawaiian chanting, and music played on slack key guitar, Native American cedarwood flute, and the Hawaiian nose flute. Supporting the duo will be John Kolivas on bass and Moanalani Beamer (Keola’s wife) on whistle and several ancient Hawaiian percussive instruments. Moanalani, a master dancer, will also perform hula and other traditional Polynesian dances to the musical arrangements.”
Sounds really interesting! Lots of us in the NRFC are going and are planning to have dinner before the show. Contact John if you want to join us. Order tickets at www.pinecone.org
John Kincheloe kincheloej@meredith.edu