Recently a friend remarked while I had produced some great instrument-focused programs I had never put one together featuring the flute. This week we’ll travel the world and listen to the flute in its many settings from the penny whistle in Celtic music, the quills and cane flute in traditional blues and the transverse flute heard in many styles of music including jazz and rock music. Music that’s Light as a Feather.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle / Smithsonian-Folkways

Larry McCollough / “Reels: The Humors of Allegheny-A Ghost of his Former Self” / Light
        Through the Leaves / Rounder
Puck Fair / “Moondance” / Fair Play / Lost Lake Arts
Cindy Kallet & Grey Larsen / “Courage” / Cross the Water / Sleepy Creek
Ensemble Galilei / “Cantiga 166” / Following the Moon / Dorian

Mike Seeger / “Fishing Blues” / Early Southern Guitar Sounds / Smithsonian-Folkways
Lonnie Young, Ed Young & Lonnie Young, Jr. / “Chevrolet” / Sounds of the South / Atlantic
Abdullah Ibrahim & Carlos Ward, flute / “The Mountain” / Water from an Ancient Well / Enja
Mark Roberts / “Jig: Connie Connell’s” / Light Through the Leaves / Rounder

Bask / “Ornen-Bjornen (Eagle-The Bear)” / Bask / Northside
Nakai-Eaton-Clipman / “Running Down the Sun” / Feather, Stone and Light / Canyon
Traffic / “(Roamin Thru the Gloamin’ With) 40,000 Headmen” / Smiling Phases/ Island
Solas / “The White Petticoat-Stan Chapman’s-The Miller’s Maggot” / Solas / Shanachie

The Chieftains / “Chase Around the Windmill Medley” / Boil the Breakfast Early / Columbia Legacy
Sukay / “San Juan” / Huayrasen-Music of the Andes / Flying Fish

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle Smithsonian-Folkways