When Jonny Lipford played his first native American flute, he didn't realize the success he'd find. He'd discovered the flute while watching cartoons. 'I saw this character playing a brown flute. It ...

Raised in a family of musicians, Melissa Little Wolf Villalobos was introduced to Native American music by her elders. She first heard the sounds of Native American flautist R. Carols Nakai, of Navajo ...

Syracuse, NY -- Rob Benedict, a member of Turtle Clan of the Mohawk Nation, plays the Native American flute to feel a connection to his ancestry. “When I play it seems to put me in touch with my ...

Jim Murphy has no problem saying his music is not entertaining. Murphy and his wife, Donna, visit Brian's House in Bay City weekly to play flute music for hospice patients who are in the last days of ...

ARLINGTON – While Dario Meguire lay near death on life support in a Seattle hospital in June, the recorded Native American flute music his mother played for him penetrated his unconscious state. “I ...

Five time Native American Music Awards winner Robert Tree Cody (Maricopa/Dakota) has walked on. Cody was a gifted Native American flute player, singer, and powwow dancer. He was 72. Throughout his ...

The Native American flute is known to evoke images of the Old West, a wolf calling to its mate or an eagle silhouetted against a fiery red-painted sky. No one knows this better than Andy Talley who, ...

A few years ago, Gary Leatham was a scientist and recruiter for a Seattle biotech firm when the sound of a Native American flute called to him from a sales booth at Folklife. Within 20 minutes he’d ...

After tragedy strikes, creatives often head to their studios with the hope of processing their feelings through artistic outlets. From moving paint across canvas to molding clay, the very act of ...

FORT YATES, N.D. — Kevin Locke played an important role in keeping alive the lost art of the Native American hoop dance. He also was an accomplished flute player, storyteller and educator who was ...