Archive for January, 2007
Circle Notes: Flute Class Offered
Jon Norris and John Kincheloe will be teaching a five-session introduction to the Plains Flute (aka Native American-style Flute, the double chambered flageolet, etc.) starting Tuesday, January 30, 2007. The course is being offered though Meredith College’s Community Outreach program. Classes will cover the history of the flute, it’s construction, how to play the instrument, and musical sources for the flute. It should be a good overview for folks just starting with the instrument. This class is full now, but it is likely the class will be offered again later. Keep it in mind if your are interested.
John Kincheloe
kincheloej@meredith.edu
February Flute Circle Meeting
In February the Neuse River Flute Circle will meet at The American Indian Company, 311 Blake Street in downtown Raleigh (near Moore Square). The meeting is February 10 and we will start at 10:30 a.m. Flutes sound great in this store & we are hoping some folks will come ready to play some good flute songs. It will be good to get together and hear some flute music. Thanks to Chris for opening up his store for us! Maybe we can sell a few flutes for him…
Anybody heading up to the Potomac Native American Flute Festival (February 23-25, 2007)? The venue is the Montgomery College in Rockville, MD ( the same as for the last 2 years) The length of the festival is extended from Noon Friday through 4:00PM Sunday. Here’s a link so you can check out what will be happening there:
http://www.potomacflutecircle.net/
Bring your selves, your flutes, and a friend to our next Circle meeting! Hope to see you there!
John Kincheloe
January 13th Meeting
Happy Flute Year to All!
The next meeting will be on January 13th at 10:30 a.m. at John K’s house. I live in Durham very close to the Rt.55 exit. Write me at kincheloej@meredith.edu if you did not receive directions to my house.
We have much to show and tell (like flute goodies Santa brought you!) so it will be fun to get together again.
One thing we will do is to demonstrate how to create your own flute music CD. We will look at the Zoom H4 portable digital recorder. And we will look at Audacity — a free piece of music editing software. It’s a great way to start editing music on a computer. And then we can look at burning a music CD. [And if we have time, we want you Mac users to see how Garageband looks & works. Who in the NRFC works on Macs? Jon. Who else? Andrew is bringing some show-and-tell: a small microphone he likes.]
Sound boring? Well…maybe it is a little boring. BUT the payoff comes when you get to hear your OWN songs in the RIGHT order on a CD. You might even get hooked on making music on a CD.
Come and learn some cool stuff with the rest of us! We promise not to make it too teckie…
So, how does that sound? Of course, we’ll play & get into our usual mischief. Plus we’ll get an update on what used to be Eddie’s beard. (Because Santa brought him jaw surgery, remember?)
John Kincheloe