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