General Information - Attractions Scheduled for 2010 - After the Event
This is event is being hosted by the NoNahme Clan of the Northern California Flute Circle.
It is the same Spring Flute Festival that has been successfully hosted by the NoNahmes
in 2007, 2008, and 2009 and should not be confused with any other flute event being held
in the Georgetown or Garden Valley area in the Spring.
The Georgetown Divide Recreation District has given permission
for vendors to set up Friday night, May 21, if they wish to do so.
6:00 AM - The grounds are open for those vendors who did not arrive
the night before.
9:00 AM - The festival opens for the public and the music begins.
Vendors should be set up and all cars and trucks out of the park
by this time to avoid any problems with vehicles versus foot traffic.
6:00 PM - The public leaves and the vendors take down.
8:00 PM - All is ready for the night.
Please take note of the fact that no RVs will be allowed on the festival site
(with the possible exception of one for security and aiding the ill), except
to unload or load. Camping at the site is not permitted either.
Please click on Accommodations
if you have not done so already.
Carol Martin, a professional photographer, has created a CD containing 97 photos (jpgs) taken at the Spring Flute Festival of April 21, 2007, in Georgetown, California, and 37 photos taken at the Concert that night. The NoNahme Clan is selling copies of this CD. Half of the money for each sale is going to Carol for her efforts on our behalf - and Carol is donating the other half to the NoNahme Clan to help pay the expenses for future Spring Flute Festivals. The price for each copy of the CD is $10.
The photo below is a reduced example of Carol's expertise.
Charlie Rosenau has CDs of photos of the Spring Flute Festival of 2009 with a musical background by Kathy Cameron. These CDs sell for $5.00 each and all proceeds go to future Spring Flute Festivals.
Lew Price, NoNahme Clan treasurer, is handling the CD sales. When ordering by mail, $2.00 more is needed for shipping expenses. Please be sure to send your name and address with your check or money order made out to Lew and send your order to:
Thanks in advance for your help.
The NoNahme Clan will be practicing at the Golden Gecko or the Park in Garden Valley on days when the weather is tolerable with some exceptions.
At these practices and at any future events featuring the NoNahme Clan, the Clan will be selling CDs (albums) of various popular Native American flutists and possibly other items. Proceeds of the sales will help to cover the expenses for future Spring Flute Festivals.
Attractions Scheduled for 2010
Like the 2009 Festival, the Spring Flute Festival in 2010 will be a one-day event.
The three previous Spring Flute Festivals sponsored by the NoNahme Clan were very successful.
The location will
be the Garden Valley Park in Garden Valley, California, in the beautiful
forested foothills northeast of Sacramento.
The primary purpose of the festival is to have fun. The side-effects of this fun are creating music, showing others how to make their own music, promoting Native American culture, and providing a place and time for some to sell and others to buy flutes, drums, and other items of Native American culture.
Your Hosts
Hosting, is the
NoNahme Clan of the Northern California Flute Circle (NCFC).
Please click on the above link to see the history, general philosophy,
and how to become a member of the NoNahme Clan.
Our thanks to the Garden Valley Community Association which has allowed us have the
festival under their insurance umbrella.
Admission
The event will be open to the public and no admission is
required. However, donations are needed
to cover the hosts' costs.
Guest Registration
Those attending the festival will find a booth near the stage where they may register as
guests, sign up for workshops, give donations for future festivals, and obtain verbal information.
Children
Parents are responsible for their children. The public is invited to this
event at no charge. However, the event is primarily for flute enthusiasts.
Should a child damage a personal instrument or an item being sold,
the child's parents will be charged for the damage.
Restrictions
Alcoholic beverages, drugs, and smoking are not allowed at this event.
Performers will be playing and the airwaves are being reserved for them. Consequently, amplified sound from other instruments, loud drums, radios, and any other sound-producing devices will not be permitted. Drumming will not be permitted during stage performances. However, drum makers may demonstrate by drumming when there are no performances onstage - and drumming at workshops (which are remotely located from the stage) will be permitted at all times.
Cell phones often will not work here in the big hills.
Attractions
Booths selling Food, Herbs, Art, Crafts, and Musical Instruments
Music featuring Voices, the Native American Flute, the Australian Didgeridoo,
Drums, & Rattles
Workshops for both Young People and Adults
Booths with Free Information
Parking
There is parking is around the perimeter of the park and at the nearby parking lot.
Vendors, performers, or those giving workshops may park temporarily near their booth site
or workshop area - only long enough to unload or load.
Eating
Aside from the food vendors at the event, there are a places to find food in Garden Valley
within walking distance and in Georgetown a few miles away.
Keeping the Area Natural and Clean
The park and the parking areas must be kept
clean and devoid of garbage of any kind. Littering or vandalism of any kind is
prohibited. Witnesses to any such incidents
are encouraged to report them to the security people. Should litter be detected,
please place it in one of the containers provided for that purpose even if the litter
is not your own. Thanks in advance.
Overnight Accommodations
There is no room for parking RVs at the park and camping is not
allowed either.
For a list of places to stay overnight, please click on the following.
Accommodations
Concert
Their will be an ongoing concert on the stage in the park. There
will be no seats so those who wish to sit must bring their own chairs and pillows.
Listeners may be shopping while the music is happening. In case of
showers, the performers will have a roof over their
heads. However, members of the audience should bring their
umbrellas. Needless to say, there will be no charge
for the concert and the amateur performers will not be paid. There will be
a blanket dance for donations to the professional performers and other donations will
be welcomed.
Afterward
Following the event, several activities are possible which allow socializing among
fluties. We highly recommend the Garden Valley Park as a place to meet friends
and play flutes. There is another park in Lotus, and one in Coloma where there
is a gold rush museum and
Sutter's Mill where gold was first discovered. Georgetown itself is a major
tourist attraction with various eating establishments and shops. There are
also local people who would be happy to have you meet at their spacious locations.
Performances
Beginning at 10:00 AM,
there will be "amateur" performances on the stage.
Those who wish to perform should come to the stage and let us know how long
they wish to perform. Times for performing may be limited according to how
many performers we have.
Workshops
Be sure and look at the workshops scheduled if you plan to attend one.
Check the schedule to see when the workshop begins.
Upon arriving at the festival, sign up at the Northern California Flute Circle
table near the stage for any workshop
you plan to attend. Most of the workshops will be held in the small area across
the creek from the vendor area. Unless instructed otherwise, about
10 minutes before the workshop is to begin, be at the designated
assembly area.
Those attending workshops should bring their own
chairs or blankets to sit upon.
See Workshops for more information.
Workshop Instructors
If you wish to have a workshop at this event, contact us with your name, address,
phone number, and e-mail address if you have one. Let us know what your
workshop is about and any particulars that your think we need to know.
Vendors' Instructions
If you have already been one of our vendors, please contact us with you name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address if applicable. We need to know that you are coming. There will be a vendor flat fee somewhere between $15 and $25, which will depend upon the number of vendors we have. If we have many vendors, the fee will go down - if we have less, the fee will go up.
If you have not been a vendor at this festival before, in addition to the above information, please send us a description of what you plan to sell and snapshot of your booth. Generally speaking, booths selling factory-produced items will not be allowed.
See Vendors and Other Booths Scheduled for 2010 for more information.
Weather
In the past, the weather in Garden Valley for most of May has been sunny. However, should there be inclement weather, those providing workshops should provide their own rainproof booths and attendees should have their own umbrellas. Vendors are encouraged to use rainproof booths.
The performers on-stage will be sheltered by the stage roof. However, members of the audience should carry umbrellas if it looks like the weather will be "iffy".
People should monitor the local TV weather channels for a forecast.
In my experience, the national weather channel is virtually useless for predicting
weather here in the foothills.
Directions
Garden Valley is on Marshal Road between Highways 49 and 193. One may go to Placerville and turn on Highway 49 toward Auburn, or go to Auburn and turn on Highway 49 toward Placerville. Specifically, the event is at the park on the corner of Marshall Road and Garden Valley Road.
If you go on Highway 49 from Placerville, go through Coloma, across the river, and Marshall Road comes up on the right at the light with the Coloma Club on the right. Take Marshall Road upward and then down (about seven miles) to the first stop sign. Garden Valley park is on the right just past the stop sign and this is where the festival is being held.
If you go on Highway 49 from Auburn, go across the river and up until you arrive at Cool. Turn left at the light on to Highway 193. Approximately seven miles later, you will arrive at Greenwood. Turn right on Greenwood Road and follow it until it meets Marshal Road in Garden Valley (about 5 miles) at the first stop sign (see the firehouse on the left). Turn right on Marshal Road and in about half a mile, the Park will appear on the left (where the festival is being held).
Coordinator
Charlie Rosenau (530) 333 - 2590 chrosenau@earthlink.net
Following the event, several activities are possible which allow socializing among
fluties. We highly recommend the Garden Valley Park as a place to meet friends
and play flutes. There is another park in Lotus, and one in Coloma where there
is a gold rush museum and
Sutter's Mill where gold was first discovered. Georgetown itself is a major
tourist attraction with various eating establishments and shops. There are
also local people who would be happy to have you meet at their spacious locations.
What follows is a listing of the vendors, workshops, and activities to be found at the Spring Flute Festival in May of 2009. We hope to see you there.
The Flute Circle events are more like family affairs with a lot of trust between members. However, there have been occasions when trust is violated by an interloper from outside the group. One of my flutes was stolen on one occasion, on another occasion someone used guile to attempt to steal several flutes from several members as well as a number of my books. Such antics usually cause grief to the perpetrator in the long run. We publish the person's name (or turn him in to the authorities) and he is blacklisted thereafter.
Rose's Garden Cafe in Garden Valley will be selling lumpia and smoothies.
The Northern California Flute Circle will have a table along with its hosting
NoNahme Clan, selling items such as T-shirts, Native American flute & drum CDs,
photo CDs taken at the festival in 2007, the new low-priced C flutes ($25 each), etc.
Northern California Flute Circle
NoNahme Clan
Lew Price will have most of his books and CDs for sale which include
eight books on
flutemaking, two on flute physics, one on flute evolution, and one on music theory -
as well as copies of his flute design software on CD. He may also have a few
flutes to sell.
www.lewpaxtonprice.us
Some of the workshops are free. Others are being presented for a fee and are being given on a first-come-first-served basis. When a fee is involved, we have decided that those attending should pay either upon arriving or after the workshop has been given according to whatever is agreed between the instructor and the student. Checks for workshop attendance should be made out to the person presenting the workshop or his business name.
Those attending a workshop should bring a chair, blanket, or some other means of sitting unless they prefer to stand.
Upon arriving at the festival, sign up at the Northern California Flute Circle's table for any workshop you plan to attend.
Please check this webpage periodically. In any case, we plan to keep the beginning
flute workshop starting time at least 2 1/2 hours before the advanced flute playing
workshop starting time. The workshop schedule is given below.
Please look farther
down for the details regarding each workshop.
Kathi Cameron and Sherry Martin will be giving a free workshop, especially for young people, on playing the Native American flute. Kathi is a music teacher and Sherry is a registered nurse. Both enjoy the Native American flute. Flutes in the key of C over middle C will be given to those attending for use during the workshop. The performance of the flutes provided exceeds that of many high-priced Native American style flutes even though each is sized for young hands. This workshop is designed for young people who are twelve years old or less. However, since we have had a cancellation of the usual beginning flute workshop for adults, adults are welcome to sit in on this workshop. If the number of attendees should exceed 12, another class may be scheduled at a later time. Each student must bring something upon which to sit.
If the student wishes to keep his or her flute, there is a $10 fee for the flute for those twelve years old or under and a $25 (the usual discount price) fee for those over twelve. If the student already has a suitable flute, he or she may bring it.
Kathi or Sherry will collect fees in advance for those who wish to keep their flutes. Each session of this workshop should last from 1 to 2 hours. Parents are invited, and if not present, are expected to pick up their young ladies and gentlemen at the end of each session.
9:00 AM - Flag Raising
The Star Spangled Banner
Honoring the veterans.
9:15 AM - Opening ceremony.
9:45 AM to 10:30 AM - Performances by players in the Northern California Flute Circle and other talented people.
10:30 AM - Blanket Dance for donations to featured professional performers.
11:00 AM to 12:00 AM - Performances by players in the Northern California Flute Circle and other talented people (This may be allowed to overrun).
1:00 PM - Jon Johnson, a man who gives a fabulous performance and plays ten instruments will be speaking and playing until 2:00 PM.
2:00 PM - Eric Ray, a great performer on the Native flute - and his daughter on the Mother Drum - will be playing until 3:00 PM.
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM - Performances by players in the Northern California Flute Circle and other talented people.
Mark Purtill - Flutes
Vance Pennington - Flutes
Brian Revheim - Flutes
Stephen DeRuby - Flutes
Lonnie Murphy & Loren Parlee - Flutes
David Blonski - Flutes & Didgeridoos
Jose Cabeza - Flutes
NoNahmes - Flutes & T-Shirts
Linda Angel Gonzales & Rick Dunlap - Moyo Drums, Flute Bags, Flute Holders
David Ferrier - Drums
William Two Crow - Various Native American Items
Jan & Charlie Rose - Pine Needle Baskets
Jason Williams & Liz Butterfield - Drums
Eric Ray - Flutes & CDs
Loping Wolf - Flutes, CDs, and more
Rose's Garden Cafe - Food
Main Street Cafe - Food
Judy Houle - Jewelry
Don Martinez - Flutes
Peggy Gomez - Gourds & more
Performances in 2009 were given by the feature performers, Jon Johnson and Eric Ray. Various members of the NCFC also performed. Last but far from least, Mary Youngblood performed and conducted a jam session with various NCFC members.
The Festival went well. The vendors were happy and
want to come next year. We almost broke even moneywise
which is what we wanted. We had a lot of fun.
Mary Youngblood graced us with her presence and her jam session
with the rest of the NCFC family was an unexpected highlight.