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Big Sky Alive! presents Sound Reflections
7:00 PM
Northridge Lutheran Church
Big Sky Alive! presents Sound Reflections Description:
Big Sky Alive! returns with its Mostly Monday Music Series, a collection of contemporary concerts that range outside of traditional music offerings in the Flathead Valley. The series opens on Monday, December 9, at 7 p.m. with “Sound Reflections” a concert celebrating the winter solstice through peaceful and meditative music performed on Native American-style flutes and crystal singing bowls accompanied by piano and percussion instruments.
The performance will feature three Flathead Valley musicians. David Webb, owner of Dakota Windsong Flutes, will perform on his personally crafted Native American-style flutes. Though Webb has no Native American heritage he felt compelled by the haunting sounds of the flutes to follow a path and journey into this unique and spiritual art, learninghis craft by corresponding with some of the best Native American flute makers in the US.
“It calms the soul,” he said. “It’s rare to have someone who makes flutes and plays his own instruments. I’m one of a handful.” He adds that Native American flutes are said to be the third oldest musical instruments in the world, preceded only by drums and bone rattles.
Joining him onstage will be Mary McGrath of Glacier Sound Healing Center in Columbia Falls. This musician has over 25 years’ experience as a music teacher and choir director in public schools. Fifteen years ago she began working with sound as a healing modality and opened her center in Columbia Falls. She holds the equivalent to a masters degree in Sound Healing and works both privately and with groups offering a wide variety of sound frequencies, vibration and music for healing.
“The bowls are magical. They take you to a profoundly deep state where your body mind soul can do its work of healing,” she explains.
Big Sky Alive! board chair and Music Director, Craig Thomas Naylor, completes the musical trio. Naylor holds a Doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Southern California and has an impressive resume as a composer, a conductor and a performer. He founded the nonprofit group in 2012 as a vehicle to add more contemporary musical offerings by living male and female composers to the valley. Naylor will be adding some minimalist piano, often playing inside on the strings like a harp, adding various ceremonial drums and metallic percussion.
“I’m really looking forward to this concert. Normally I am the featured composer or performer but for this evening I am ‘third fiddle.’ Mary and David will provide the meditation music and I will provide a little spice here and there, kind of like seasoning a curry.”
The concert will be held at 7 p.m. at Northridge Lutheran Church, 323 Northridge Drive, Kalispell, MT 59901. Entry is by a free will offering and a donation of nonperishable food for the Flathead Food Bank.
For more information contact craigtnaylor@gmail.com
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Age Group: All Ages
Venue: Northridge Lutheran Church
Address: 323 Northridge Drive Kalispell, MT 59901
Phone: 406-250-8867

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