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The Potomac AND Northern Virginia Flute Circles Home Page * * * * * * * * * *
There are two cooperating flute circles in the Washington and Northern Virginia areas. These two circles meet a total of twice a month in various locations - they are the Potomac and the Northern Virginia Flute Circles - both are recognized by the INAFA organization.
Please contact Stuart Hill to be placed on the maillist that serves both flute circles. Updates on the locations and other items of interest are sent out approximately weekly.**sjhhill@AOL.COM
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If you live in the Washington DC and Northern Virginia area and play the Native American flute, or are interested in learning about it, meeting other players, makers and enthusiasts, please feel free to visit and join either or both of these circles!.
The Potomac Flute Circle meets on the third Saturday of each month. Meetings are from 2:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Meetings are held in various members homes and parks - depending on the weather the locations vary for the other months. You need to join the mail list to receive regular announcements about the dates, times and locations for each meeting.
The next Potomac Flute Circle meeting is in Clarksburg, MD on July 19.
The contact person is Sharon Ellis (email:PotomacFluteCircle@hotmail.com)
Please contact Sharon by Email: PotomacFluteCircle@hotmail.com
Please contact Sharon by email: PotomacFluteCircle@hotmail.com
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The Northern Virginia Flute Circle meets the first Saturday of each month from 2-5 in different locations around the NOVA area. Ths next flute circle meeting will be August 1, at the home of Stuart Hill in Vienna, VA.
E-mail: sjhhill@AOL.COM sjhhill@AOL.COM ___________________________________________________ Please contact the Northern Virginia Flute Circle for more details on the circle's activities!
Contact Person: Stuart Hill
E-mail: sjhhill@aol.com Northern Virginia Flute Circle Representative to INAFA: Angel Cruz Please contact Angel by email: acruzn@yahoo.com
Other Important Links:
Visit the West Virginia Flute Circle's Web Site West Virginia Flute Circle Information Update: The Timber Flute Festival is now offering a day rate for students who cannot get away for the entire week. Students may pay $70/day to attend the day of their choice.
Please share this event news and contact information with any one who may be interested. The website is up and running off of our web page at www.randolpharts.org.
For news of the WV flute circle visit www.wvnativeamericanflutecircle.blogspot.com and at fluteportal www.fluteportal.com/flutecircles/8
Visit to the National Museum of the American Indian
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The fifth annual Potomac Native American Flute Festival was held the weekend of February 22-24, 2008 at the Montgomery College in Rockville, MD. Unfortunately, due to weather and the college closing for the day, workshops and the evening concert with Mark Holland and Autumn's Child were canceled. After that night, the featured performers included:
< - > Saturday Night - Carlos Nakai - - - - Saturday Afternoon Jan Seiden - - - - Jim Morehouse
Workshops were held throughout the event, which ran from 9:00am Saturday, February 22 to 12:30PM Sunday, February 24. The festival included over a dozen Native American flute makers and non-NAF vendors (attending vendors are listed below
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2008 Festival Flute Vendors:
Geoffrey Evans - Woodland Flutes , Brent Haines - Woodsounds Flutes Hawk Henries, John Kulias - Meadowlark Flutes, Geri Littlejohn - Green Grass Flutes, Leonard McGann - Lone Crow Flutes, Jim Morehouse – Flutewood Flutes, Dusty Moore - Tsunami Flutes Colyn Petersen - Woodland Voices Flutes, Randy and Shelly Stenzel - Feather Ridge Flutes and Drums, Brad Young - 4 Wind Flutes
Other Participating Vendors: Danita and Chuck Tsinnie - Native Treasures and Eleanor Alden - FluteBundles
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The fourth annual Potomac Native American Flute Festival was held February 23-25, 2007. It was a great success with over 85 workshop participants, several hundred concert attendees (each night), over a dozen flute vendors and 14 workshops.
Featured performers included:
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Friday Evening Concert: Flute Maker and Flute Player Michael Graham Allen (of Coyote Oldman), World-Famous Didgeridoo Player Ash Dargan, and the Ron Warren Band.
A Saturday afternoon concert featured Native American Flute Player and Flute Maker Hawk Henries.
Saturday Evening Concert: Electric Violin Player Extraordinaire Arvel Bird and the Jeff Ball Band.
There were dual-tracked workshops on Saturday to include beginner and advanced playing workshops. Over a dozen flute makers and other Native American vendors displayed and sold their wares. Additional details are provided in the following links - a festival schedule and a printable brochure for the event.
2007 Festival Schedule, including Workshops
Links to 2007 Festival Performers, Workshop Leaders and Vendors
Courtesy link to the National Museum of the American Indian
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The third annual festival happened February 17-19, 2006 - it was a blast!!!
Potomac and Maryland Flute Circles Proudly Presented the
3rd Annual Potomac Native American Flute Festival.
This event ran for three days and included workshops, two evening concerts, and a variety of special events dedicated to the Native American Flute.
That year's perfermers are listed below and hot-linked by name)
YARINA 2005 NAMMY Award Winner - - Performed Saturday Evening, February 18, 2006
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Quick Reference links are listed below:
< 2006 Flute Vendors >
< 2006 Workshop Descriptions>
< Summary of the two prior year's festivals, with pictures>
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