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 ...

<p>A collection of Dakota WindSong flutes are displayed in Dave Webb's studio. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)</p> <p>Dave Webb plays one of his flutes in his studio at his house on Wednesday. (Aaric ...

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 ...

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 ...

DUSTY MOORE HAS carved out an unusual niche for himself – as a specialist in making Native American flutes. He works in a loft on Second Street in Eastport, the smell of cedar prominent, his flutes ...

Native American flute player Gareth Laffely will make his fourth appearance at the 2019 Musical Echoes Native American Flute Festival. He will perform at 4 p.m. Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.

SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO — Mission Trails Regional Park was alive with its usual music this weekend: the San Diego River burbling in its shady bed, birds singing, cyclists zipping by, breeze pressing ...

He raises the hollowed block of wood to his lips, draws a breath and then exhales. An F-sharp hovers in the morning air and then vanishes. It’s called “first breath,” Kent Bush says. Many flutes come ...