OMG, we attended a pot luck and house concert at Annie's house, my flute teacher. She lives in Palm Desert. It was just incredible, I took Lary and the guest of honour was Mark Holland, perhaps one of the best Native American flute players in the U.S.
We had pot luck dinner outside first of all, it was magic, and then Mark did a whole set of his songs, his playing is just phenomenal. We all paid a small admission fee, well worth it.
Mark seems to feel that the Native American Flutes can be combined with endless other musical instruments, which is very interesting, as many other people emphasize how individual it is, and how it normally is played alone, or with a backup instrumental from an IPod or something like that. Mark's music was the most wonderful I have ever heard for a N.A. flute, and very tuneful. He seemed to use all kinds of embellishments, mostly with his style of blowing.
Mark's wife Tina was with him, and she sold his CDs and a book of flute music at the break, then we each got a chance or two to jam with him, we led and he backed us up, in fact he really embellished our work, and made us sound far more wonderful than what we really are.
We finished off with a big hug from him, how great is that?
And yes, I bought 4 of his CDs. His group is called Autumn's Child, and 3 CDs are by them, classically trained musicians I believe. And the last CD I bought is by him is called Wind and Fire, the NA flutes of Mark together with N.Scott Robinson an interesting world type percussionist. Can't wait to listen to them all.
Sadly on the way home we passed the scene of a recent fatal traffic accident, a pedestrian killed by a truck. Creepy, it seemed as if it had just happened.
Also to watch the Opening of the Winter Olympics, and hear the sad news that a Georgian luge athlete had been killed after he lost control of his luge on a practice run that morning.
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