Posted By on September 2, 2009

My journey began when my first flute appeared in my home as a Christmas gift from my husband in December of 2005. This led to so much interest in the flute from people who had heard me playing that my husband ( I call him a serial entrepreneur) suggested we sell the flutes. I thought he was just a little crazy at that time and decided it was time for me to be a little crazy too.

Having fallen in love with these amazing instruments has changed my life. I have spent the past three years talking to thousands of people about their own interest in playing an instrument, followed through on my own dream of making my own music and encouraged thousands of people to make a leap and just pick up a flute and begin their own music making journey.

On this journey I have learned a great deal about many things from history, to playing, to just getting out of my own way and about the power of one small instrument to be a true connector to the global spirit. One of the things I have noticed is that people all over the world are searching for information about these flutes, searching for places to play and people to play with and flocking to flute festivals in droves to learn more and meet more people.

I am now embarking on this new adventure www.gonefluting.com. connected to my love for this instrument and am setting up a resource based website about the Native American Flute. My dream is to make this a central place of information about all aspects of these beautiful instruments and have something there for everyone from beginners to advanced players, makers, people who want to record and promote music and anything else that I can think of you or you as people in this beautiful community can tell me that you need.

It is just in the development stages. To make this a great resource for people, I need your help. Tell me what information you would like to see on this site.
Are you looking for more tablature for playing, interviews with other players, lessons, great places to play your flutes, where to start to record your own music? I will build gonefluting.com with feedback from you.

Nothing would excite me more than to go check my email and find it full of suggestions about how to build www.gonefluting.com. You can email me your suggestions to terry@gonefluting.com
or phone me at 1-250-740-0473.

I am waiting anxiously for your suggestions.

Until then, I am GoneFluting

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Posted By on February 28, 2010

Rich Dubé has been teaching music at inner city schools in Saskatoon for over 14 years. Both his Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal middle years and high school students put their heart and soul into creating their very own Native American style flutes. They take great pride in learning how to play a version of the authentic instrument that was created by North America’s First People. He has put together inexpensive kits that schools can purchase and have students make their own Native American Flute.

To visit his website, click here

An example of this process can be seen by clicking the link below.

Make a Native American Flute in five minutes

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Posted By on February 18, 2010

Her is a short video interview from R. Carlos Nakai, Native American Flute Player, Composer and Visionary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3nhbnQR8WU

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Posted By on February 9, 2010

David Darling, a true innovator in the field of music improvisation and free creative expression has developed a musical bill of rights that supports any human being with an interest in making music. Along with flautist Bonnie Insull, they created the Music for People program in 1986.

A Bill of Musical Rights Developed by David Darling/Music for People

Human beings need to express themselves daily in a way that invites physical and emotional release.

Musical self-expression is a joyful and healthy means of communication available to absolutely everyone.

There are as many different ways to make music as there are people.

The human voice is the most natural and powerful vehicle for musical self-expression. The differences in our voices add richness and depth to music.

Sincerely expressed emotion is at the root of meaningful musical expression.

Your music is more authentically expressed when your body is involved in your musical expression.

The European tradition of music is only one sound. All other cultures and traditions deserve equal attention.

Any combination of people and instruments can make music together.

There are no “unmusical” people, only those with no musical experience.

Music improvisation is a unique and positive way to build skills for life-expression.

In improvisation as in life, we must be responsible for the vibrations we send one another.

NEWS ABOUT DAVID DARLING

David Darling has won his first Grammy for Best New Age Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards. Congratulations David!!!!!!!!

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Posted By on February 9, 2010

As I research more about how to promote your music, I am learning little tidbits that are useful to use when you start the process of creating an MP3 file. I am looking for tips and tricks to add to all of the categories that I will be adding to Gone Fluting. I invite you to contribute.

TIP #1
Tagging MP3 versions of your songs
For anyone posting a song as an MP3 version, it is important name it so that it can be easily found in the world of computers. There is a standard format that places sites like ITunes like to see. The format is:
Artist_Name_of_Song_mp3. An example from my duo Wind Weaver would be.
Wind_Weaver_Aerial_Wandering.mp3

Notice the use of the underscore_ to separate words. Most computers don’t read punctuation marks and spaces well. Using an underscore_as a space holder makes it easier for computers to look for your music file. Once you decide on a format, be consistent with it. Use it everywhere, even when sending your link to friends and family.

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Posted By on February 5, 2010

For those of you who are fans of Scott August he has announced the upcoming radio interview

Event: Radio Interview with Scott August
What: Preview
Start Time: Sunday, February 14 at 10:00am
End Time: Sunday, February 14 at 11:00am
Where: KSBR FM 88.5 and iTunes

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=294204211986&mid=1d6cc3fG301ee451G56a3ed2G7

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Posted By on December 19, 2009

Hi folks
The Northern California Flute Circle just sent out this link.

“Gentle Thunder and Will Clipman are offering an early Christmas present for all of their fans. It’s a free download of the song Passionate Mystery from their fully mixed and mastered but as-yet unreleased new CD: Translucent.

The song features Gentle Thunder’s luscious hammered dulcimer playing, backed by Will’s always incredible percussion. And of course, GT on NAF.

Here’s the link: http://gentlethunder.com/MP3%20files/Translucent%2004%20Passionate%20Myster%20New%20Age%20320kbps.mp3

Thanks to the Northern California Flute Circle for sending this out.

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Posted By on October 26, 2009

II World Flutes Festival T.M.
World Flute Festival
September 22 – 26, 2010
Mendoza – Argentina
After a successful first edition is OPEN the first call for ll World Flutes Festival´s Registration of Proposals. Flutists (dizi, shakuhachi, ney, kaval, quena, moseño, baroque, traverse, siku, tarka, bansuri, among others), luthiers, musicologists, neurologists, sociologists, environmentalists, among others are welcomed.
ll World Flutes Festival promoting the interpretation of world flutes through a full connection to the present moment. According to this vision, each instrument is a link between what we call inside and outside. The audible message and its moments of silence, pervaded by the contact with reality, become messengers of peace and brotherhood. This Festival, of international reach, will invite great representatives from different regions of the world. Each Master will bring a wealth of valuable information through concerts, master classes, workshops, debates and expositions. see Aims Festival is a not-for profit event under the auspices of the Cuyo National University, Luthiers Argentinian Association and Argentinian Music Council.
see rules

Registration of proposals

Registration period ends: 1st March 2010
Announcement of the selected applications: 1st April 2010

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Posted By on October 14, 2009

Evran Ozan started playing flutes when he was six years old and has become a much awarded and recognized player of Native American Flutes. I noticed today that he is one of this months featured artists on the International Acoustic Music Awards page http://www.inacoustic.com/artists2.html. He is certainly an inspiring young player.
You can see more of his music on you tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24SYnT8_P0c.

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Posted By on September 24, 2009

Wish I could be there but it is a long way from Nanaimo to attend all of these wonderful flute events all over the US.
Mike Oitzman, host of the Northern California Flute Circle will be doing live blogging from the festival itself.
You can check it out at his site http://naflute.blogspot.com/

I know I will be checking in often to see what Mike has to say about the excitement at the festival.
HMMMM! All those flutes, HUMMM! All those lovely flute people. HMMMMMM! and of the great performances.
It won’t be quite like being there, but it will make you feel a bit more of a connection to the action
at this wonderful flute festival.

And a big thank you to Mike for providing this.

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Posted By on September 21, 2009

There are many new and interesting ways to connect with fellow flute enthusiasts and players all over the world through the amazing tools that are available on the Internet.

I love listening to flute players but where I live, there just aren’t that many to be found nor do I live close to places where concerts are held.

Blog TV is making it much easier for people to see and hear good players. Rod Krug aka, didgerod of Colorado has introduced just such a show. It occurs on Monday nights. He regularly has co hosts who share their music.

Here is the links to Didgerods Native American Flute and Didgeridoo blog tv show
http://www.blogtv.com/People/didgerod

Here is a link to Rod’s facebook account page for the show;

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Didgerods-BlogTV-Broadcast-Live-Native-American-Flute-Didgeridoo-Music/131233330923?ref=nf

This is a great resource for anyone who wants to hear and see more flute music. In the chat section, you can meet new people. This is just another grea example of how these amazing instruments are bringing people together to share and learn (even across the airwaves).

Give it a try. I am sure you will find it very interesting.
Thanks Rod for providing this great show!!!!

Sample of the show below:

Terry Mack “Wind Weaver”- Broadcast your self LIVE

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