The August meeting of The Spring Cypress Flute Circle was hosted at John and Sandy Czerwinski's home in Spring. We had a turnout of 9 members. We would like to welcome two new members, Dottie Taylor from Houston and Vicky Williamson from Spring. In our raffle drawing, Dottie won a CD "Rhythm to Accompany the Native American Flute". Thanks to Larry Evans for his donation of the CD.. In two other drawings, Larry won a "Spirit Stone" and Vicki Williamson went home with a Rainstick from Creations Unlimited. The rainstick was decorated by Mal'ora Navajo and her friends in Tuscon, Arizona.

Larry Evans, with Mockgingbird Flutes, drove all the way from his home in Euless, Texas to join our circle. He brought more of his flutes for us to try and to buy. We really appreciate Larry for taking his time to drive down to our meetings each month. We really enjoy having him.

There was a lot of playing at the open mic, eating, and visiting. Sandy and Vicky joined together to give a lesson in breathing to our new member, Dottie Taylor. Although Vicky Williamson is new to the NAF, she is an accomplished classical/jazz flute player and a very experienced flute teacher. She did an excellent job in explaining breathing to Dottie who has never played a wind instrument before.

We discussed getting a group together to attend the "Flute Mini Retreat" in Dallas, Texas on Saturday, September 23. This event is being put on by the Heart of Cedar Native American Flute Circle". A few members talked about getting a carpool together to drive to Dallas for the day to attend the workshop. If you are interested in attending this event, please contact us and we'll put you in touch with others that are planning to attend.

Please check the calendar for the next scheduled flute circle and for upcoming events thru the end of 2006.

The July meeting of The Spring Cypress Flute Circle was held in Sandy Czerwinski's home in Spring. We had a great turnout..14 people. We would like to welcome 2 new members, Heather Byford from the Woodlands and Anne Gorman from the Champions area. Heather Byford has been playing NAF for about 3 years. Anne Gorman plays classical and baroque flute but is new to the Native American flute. Anne also won the drawing for a new rainstick.

Two of our Texas flute makers, Larry Evans with Mockgingbird Flutes and Bill Warner with Chaparrall Flutes brought their flutes to show and sell. Several members went home with new flutes (imagine that!!). We were also introduced to another local flute maker, Mike Jones and his son Brendan. Mike makes ocarinas and bamboo flutes. Hopefully Mike will bring some of his ocarinas and flutes to our meeting in August.

At the August Flute Circle, Sam Calderara, Mary Nelis, and Sandy Czerwinski have volunteered to give some one on one lessons to some of the newer members. While they are teaching, we will have the open mic set up for anyone not involved in a private lesson. If anyone has a special request for the next circle, please send an e-mail with your ideas.

We were really excited to be one of three stops on the Mark Holland and Autumn's Child first Texas tour... The concert was held at The Church at Creeks End in Spring, Tx. In spite of being on the road for 5 days and playing 3 concerts back to back, Autumn's Child put on an incredible concert. No one left the concert disappointed. What an amazing group of performers...In addition to Mark on the NAF, we met Janice Rieman on the cello, Ali Soltanshahi on percussion, and Erin Wolf on the classical guitar. Exciting concert...Hopefully we can talk Autumn's Child into returning next year to do another concert.

Many, many thanks to Pastor Bobby Martin and The Church at Creek's End for hosting the concert.