Saturday, January 24, 2009

Ancient flutes on stage

I'm going to really roll out the ancient flutes for the Casa Grande event. The flutes I have been reintroducing since 2001 will be there, including Anasazi flutes, Hopi, 3 hole Papago flute, and the Mojave flute.  Current research may bring something "new" to my performance in the way of very obscure and ancient flutes, we shall see. 
I usually play replicas of old flutes but I plan to bring an actual artifact to Casa Grande, this is a 1920s or 1930s Kiowa flute made by the venerable elder; Belo Cozad.  The Belo flute is a Plains Style flute, but this is the real Plains Style flute and very different from our modern NA flutes. The Belo Cozad flute will also be discussed during my lecture.
Well, I need to tune up the time machine, there are some cool old flutes waiting out there.
MGA

1 comments:

Kevin Hoagland said...

Michael,
Thank you for your performances during the event. I learned a great deal from just listening to you play and share the history of the flutes.

Kevin Hoagland