R Carlos Nakai Trio

My mom loves the Native American culture. She especially likes the flute music, so Saturday night we went to see the R Carlos Nakai Trio at Unity Church of Dallas. R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman make up the trio and have been playing together for some 20 years.

They didn't allow flash photography and all my photos sans flash came out blurry =( It was a nice little set up on the stage of the church. R. Carlos had at least 10 Native American flutes ranging in size and he would play two or three within a piece. William Eaton plays a harp/guitar combo instrument which is really cool. Kinda looks like this:

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Will Clipman was on percussions, and my favorite thing was when he played his udu, made by Buffalo Moon Flutes in Austin!

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They were really impressive. I especially liked their improv piece. You have to have great talent to be able to play improv as a trio! I also really liked their song called Feather, Stone and Light. It's just so relaxing and spiritual. Perfect yoga music!

If you get a chance to listen to any of their music, you should. It's on Spotify!