Anasazi flute class

I am offering a class on how to play the Anasazi flute on Saturday, March 8th, 2008.

The class will cover:

Introduction to the Anasazi flute
How to hold the flute
Lip position and placement "Embrosure"
Getting your first notes
Perfecting your tone
Exploring the scales
Breath control
How to practice

For complete details visit the class page on my website.

Hope to see you there,
Scott August

Chasing the Sun: Haran Triple flute

There is a lot of experimentation going on in the world of Native American flute. Many makers are trying different designs and combinations to come up with some very interesting flutes. The history of flute making is one of change spread over thousands of years but recently the amount of experimentation has been increasing at a tremendous rate staring about ten years ago with the first bass NAFs made by Hawk and Geri Littlejohn and continues today with many makers. These new designs include bass flutes, drone flutes and double flutes made from a variety of woods and clay and other materials.

My latest recording Lost Canyons features one of these very unusual Native American flutes on track #10: a triple chambered flute made by Pat Haran which is best described as a double drone flute.



In this latest post we're going to look at this flute and a common NAF player affliction "Flute Envy".

Read the full article

© Cedar Mesa Music

LOST CANYONS: Echoes CD of the month

LOST CANYONS chosen as ECHOES CD of the Month for December 2007.

Echoes is a daily two-hour music soundscape, distributed by Public Radio International (PRI) and broadcast on over 150 radio stations from Maine to California.


ECHOES DECEMBER CD OF THE MONTH
SCOTT AUGUST: LOST CANYONS
"A Native Flute virtuoso heads for canyon echoes.
We've been playing Scott August's music for years on Echoes. He's become an expert on the Native American flute and combines it with sensitive electronic arrangements and environmental sound. Lost Canyons is his latest, and finest album to date. Inspired by the desert southwest, August creates epic journeys and quiet meditations on this meticulously crafted CD. It's our Echoes CD of the Month for December."

LOST CANYONS will be featured on the Echoes Dec 3rd broadcast. To find a station near you click here.

Please show your support for Lost Canyons by voting for it in the Echoes 2007 Listener's Poll. Voters will be entered into a drawing to win all 25 top 2007 titles and more. You can vote HERE.

Voting is very easy. Echoes has provided pull down menus of all the choices alphabetical by the artist's first name. They ask for you to pick your top three in order but if you don't have three picks you can chose "No selection" from the top of the pull down menu.

Voting ends Dec 6th so don't wait!

© 2007 Cedar Mesa Music.

Fall 2007 Newsletter

The Fall 2007 issue of Echoes From The Mesa is out and is posted in the News Section of www.cedarmesa.com

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Central Coast Flute Festival

Photos from the Central Coast Flute Festival


The festival had a great projection system for my video backgrounds


Playing "Heart of the Sky" from New Fire


Performing "Emergence" from Distant Spirits


Playing "Raven Dance" from Lost Canyons
This is a good shot of my "band", aka Mac PowerBook G4, plus some other goodies in the black box.