Time:10:00a.m.
to 4:00p.m. Where: Cherokee
Heritage
Center Gathering Place.
This Wokshop is FULL!
If you would like to be put on a wait list in case of cancelations
please send an email to :
tnafcmail@yahoo.com
The principle
objective of this workshop is to empower, enlighten, and encourage you
with knowledge and skills so you will play your Native American Flute
for yourself and others.
Whether you want to play your flute for yourself in the quiet of your
home or you want to play your flute for others to hear, you will enjoy
participating in this workshop. You will learn the names of the parts
of your flute, how to take care of your flute, and how to play from
your heart. You will learn some basic music theory, how to read Native
American Flute tablature, and some musical scales. Your new
skills developed from participation in this workshop will enhance your
ability to create your own songs as well as play along with other
instruments. Participation in this workshop will let you
experience the enlightening, connective moments achieved only by
playing together with other flute players. Jerry and Lisa will take you
on a fun and easy guided exploration of group improvisation.
Skill Level:
Beginning & Intermediate (No experienced required)
What
to bring: Although you will be learning on your Cane
Native
American
Flute made by Fretwell Flutes, please bring any other Native American
Flutes that you own for the purpose of sharing with the class.
Instructional
Package included with
the cost of the workshop contains: Concert Quality
Tuned Cane Native
American Flute, Instructional Book (46Pages), Supplies, & 15%
discount coupon toward the purchase of a Native American Wood Flute.
This workshop
is limited seating to 20 participants. Please RSVP soon to
ensure your seat in the
workshop! Please
Arrive 15
mintues early for this workshop.
Online Registration No longer
available. Sign up at the Registration Booth at the Festival!
After you participate in this workshop, you will have a better
understanding of how to build your own "Concert Tuned" Native American
Flute. I've been building flutes for seven years. My current methods
have evolved from trial and error, not to mention a lot of
kindling. After 3,000 flutes I feel it's time to pass on
what I have learned.
This
workshop will include an in depth discussion on all stages of Native
American Flute construction and problem solving. You will learn
about: Choosing Wood, Splitting, Boring, Glueing and clamping,
Rounding, Making the Flue, Bird/Block construction, Making the sound
edge, Tuning, Applying a finish.
Skill Level:
Beginning, Intermediate, Professional
What
to bring: Pencil and Paper and problem flutes
that you have
questions about.
This workshop
is limited seating to 20 participants. Please RSVP soon to
ensure your seat in the
workshop! Please
Arrive 15
mintues early for this workshop.
Online Registration No longer
available. Sign up at the Registration Booth at the Festival!
Dr. Richard W. Payne "Doc Payne" (1918-2004)
resided in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where he collected, studied, played,
and made Native American flutes throughout most of his life. He
worked with numerous important figures in Native American flute
history, including Belo Cozad, Able Big bow, Richard Foolbull, and Doc
Tate Nevaquaya. Doc Payne inspired many of today’s most renowned
performers, including R. Carlos Nakai, Tom Ware, and Kevin Locke.
Through his research and conversations with Native American flute
makers, players, and historians, Doc Payne amassed one of the largest
private collections of indigenous areophones of the Americas in the
world and he published numerous books and articles on their history.
Since his death his flutes have been sold to many collectors who
appreciate the value of these historical instruments. (Photo is Doc
Payne at his workshop in Yukon, OK.)
Dr. Paula Conlon teaches Native American and
World Music at the University of Oklahoma's School of Music as
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology. Originally trained as a
classical silver flutist, she now focuses her performing on the Native
American flute and gives lectures and recitals in Norman and the
surrounding area. She first met Doc Payne when she moved to Oklahoma in
1996 and she worked closely on his collection with him until his death.
He was instrumental in acquainting her with key figures in the
contemporary Native American flute scene and he became one of her most
treasured mentors and friends. This workshop will trace Doc Payne's own
life history and discuss his many contributions to the world of the
Native American flute.
Time:
4:00-5:00p.m
Educational Program Fee: FREE Where: Tenkiller
Lodge Lobby
This programis
limited seating to 27 participants. Please RSVP soon to
ensure your seat in the
workshop! Please
Arrive 15
mintues early for this workshop.
Online Registration No longer
available. Sign up at the Registration Booth at the Festival!
Ronald
Willison Kiamichi Leather Crafts “Rivercane
Flute Making”
Workshop Abstract
In
this workshop you will learn how to make a flute from river cane. Some
aspects of the workshop will include learning how to burn the cane,
burning your sound edge, burning your tone holes to tune the flute, and
finishing. Tools will be provided. Please come dressed
comfortably and appropriately remembering that you will be working with
an open flame and very hot tools. Kids welcome with parental or
legal guardian supervision.
Time:
10a.m-12p.m.
Workshop Fee: $20
Where: In Front of Tenkiller Lodge Lobby
(see registration booth for directions)
This workshop
is limited seating to 15 participants. Please RSVP soon to
ensure your seat in the
workshop! Please
Arrive 15
mintues early for this workshop.
Online Registration No longer
available. Sign up at the Registration Booth at the Festival!
Jan
Rice
“Stepping
Across the Threshold –
Volunteering at Hospitals and Hospices”
Workshop Abstract
You already know the
WHY.
This workshop will provide you with information on the who, what, when,
and how to volunteer to play your Native American Flute for hospital
and hospice patients. Use your music as an
enhancement to the healing process and the life/death
transition.
I will share my experiences playing for all ages of patients in both
hospitals and hospices. I will also provide information on
the Music Healing and Transition Program and how to become a Music
Practitioner if you desire to enhance your learning and participation
in the application of therapeutic music.
This workshop
is limited seating to 27 participants. Please RSVP soon to
ensure your seat in the
workshop! Please
Arrive 15
mintues early for this workshop.
Online Registration No longer
available. Sign up at the Registration Booth at the Festival!
Jan
Seiden “Sacred Breath
for
Fluting and Life”
(a.k.a., Breath Control)
“I’m playing all the same notes as you, so
how do you sound so sweet -
what are you doing?”
In this workshop ISMA nominee, Musical Echoes 1st Place Performer, and
educator Jan Seiden shares her secret: The secret is not in breath
control, but in letting go of it. Our bodies are simply channels
for Spirit to sing through the flute. Learn through fun and
simple exercises derived from yoga and Qi Gong how you breathe, how
breath moves through you, and how you can shape air. Begin using
muscles we don’t typically think of as being involved in breathing –
the diaphragm is just the beginning! Sound like a paradox?
So is the term “breath control.” Do you have a flute with a good bit of
back
pressure? A flute that requires no effort at all that seems to
almost want to take your breath away? Bring them to this workshop
to begin breathing with your flutes.
Please wear comfortable clothes and bring
drinking water for yourself.
Background on this workshop:
I’ve often asked myself what I can offer to the flute community in the
way of knowledge that is unique. Seeing how many gifted flute
players
there are, the answer evaded me for a long time. The question
came
back to, “what am I good at that others are not workshopping
about?
What do people need?” I thought about what people say they like
about
my flute music. Well, there’s more to good flute playing than
music, I
thought. Flooding into my mind was the frustration I hear from
many
fluties about breath control, and one student’s near-threat to put me
in a medical imaging device while I play so they could actually see
inside my body. Reviewers were much kinder, here’s what some of
them
said:
“Seiden’s flutes sing
like birds – with a purity and effortlessness
that transcends their simple construction.” ~Massage Magazine
“...[Seiden] lets the beautiful,
natural tones come forth from solid breath-work.” ~The Critical
Review
“Seiden’s
original flute solos demonstrate not only phenomenal
breath-work and lip-tongue technique, but also demonstrate her poetic
soul and passionate heart.” ~PJ Birosik,
Nationally syndicated music reviewer, Musik International
“A unique mixture of honed virtuosity and
free-flow note shaping come
together in the music of Jan Seiden, uplifting and transporting the
listener.” ~Russ Venable, flutemaker. Review of Seiden’s
CD, Woodland
Winds
This workshop
is limited seating to 20 participants. Please RSVP soon to
ensure your seat in the
workshop! Please
Arrive 15
mintues early for this workshop.
Online Registration No longer
available. Sign up at the Registration Booth at the Festival!
The
engineering parameters used in
www.flutephysics.com to describe flutes will be explained in a
qualitative way. A description of parameters such as: boundary
conditions, lumped elements, distributed elements, losses, phase,
admittance, impedance, and quality factor will be given. The
consequence of these parameters on fipple, embouchure, pipe taper, note
hole, and chimney will be explained.
This workshop
is limited seating to 27 participants. Please RSVP soon to
ensure your seat in the
workshop! Please
Arrive 15
mintues early for this workshop.
Online Registration No longer
available. Sign up at the Registration Booth at the Festival!
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