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