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Miller has collaborated with other Native American musicians such as Robert Mirabal, Carlos Nakai, and Joanne Shenandoah. His project with Mirabal, Native Suite was an experimental and traditional project, featuring flute and percussion, as well as Mohican pow-wow singing.
As a musician, he drummed and played the Native American flute, harmonica, and blues guitar. He formed the band Blues Nation in 1990. [1] He was an accomplished American Indian dancer and regalia maker. He was a skilled visual artist: painting, sculpting, making flutes, bead working, and feather working.
Nakai's music prominently features improvisations on the Native American cedar flute. He also plays the eagle-bone whistle, and uses synthesizers, chanting, and sounds from nature. Although he occasionally plays arrangements of traditional melodies, most of his music attempts to "[create] original compositions that capture the essence of his ...
[1] [2] While Native American identity can at times be a complex and contested issue, the Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry, and legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village. Ethnologically, factors such as ...
Jeff Ball (born August 6, 1966 in Bethesda, Maryland) is a Native American flute player. He found the flute at a Powwow in Baltimore, Maryland in 1991. Although given some basic instruction by a Choctaw man named Wintamer, Ball is largely self-taught. His early inspiration came from R. Carlos Nakai and Douglas Spotted Eagle.
Native American musicians who play the Native American flute. See also Category:Native American flute players.
Robert Mirabal (born October 6, 1966) is a Pueblo musician and Native American flute player and maker from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico.. His flutes are world-renowned and have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Indian.
He has taught Native American flute at clinics and colleges in the midwest, especially the Omaha Metropolitan Community College and the Nebraska Indian Community College and St. Augustine Mission in Macy, Nebraska. [7] Murphy is a member of the Nebraska Arts Council [8] and the International Native American Flute Association. He has also taught ...