Download Native Flute Music and Flute Building

Native Flute Music and
Flute Building
Grace and Paul Jones
March 2, 2013
1:30—3:30
Admission Free
Taos Public Library
Paul and Grace Jones are known for their traditional original native flute music. Paul is a composer
and educator who performs on a variety of Native American flutes which he builds. Along with playing some of their beautiful and spiritual music Paul and Grace will demonstrate and educate the audience on the history and traditional art of flute building. Over the years Paul has mastered the art of
flute building using all hand tools: files, chisels, saws, oil, and sandpaper to build Sioux, Apache, Cheyenne, and Cherokee flutes. Grace Jones is a Native American from Isleta Pueblo. They have traveled
throughout the Southwest including California presenting education seminars at New Mexico Museums, Pow Wow’s, Taos and Santa Fe Fiestas, and at the Institute of American Indian Arts events. Paul
and Grace Jones will have flutes available for sale at the presentation for purchase.
For the past 18 years, Paul Jones has been hand crafting Kokopelli flutes and playing his music at various venues, including arts and crafts fairs. Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with feathers or antenna-like protrusions on his head), who has been venerated by some Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States. Like most fertility deities,
Kokopelli presides over both childbirth and agriculture. He is also a trickster god and represents the
spirit of music.
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