Debbie Rivers learned to play the flute on the traditional silver instruments, but for the last six years, she has branched out to playing on wooden Native American flutes. She took a trip to the Four ...

These days, Native American Flute Players perform at music festivals across the globe. But few belong to any tribe or nation, something that troubles Darren Thompson, a member of the Lac du Flambeau ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Native American legend, a poor, lovestruck young man receives the gift of his life when a woodpecker teaches him to make and play a flute, which in turn swayed the girl of his dreams, a chief’s ...

John Sarantos plays one of 25 Native American flutes he owns in his collection. This flute is replicated of the Plains Indians, made of cedar wood and containing a Loon head on the end. John Sarantos ...

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, ...

It takes a soul of stone not to be touched by the haunting melodies of the Native American flute, an instrument that can express both sorrow and beauty with just a few notes. Johnny Kee both makes and ...

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 ...