Gainesville Flute Circle – Judy Robinson Designs & Art

Ron & Bill are now the co-leaders for the Gainesville Flute Circle.

If you wish to be in touch with members of the Gainesville Flute Circle,
please join our Facebook Group – Gainesville Native American Style Flute Circle

You can find updates about the Gainesville Flute Circle’s meeting times through the Facebook Group.

Updated Sept. 1, 2021

Please Check the Facebook group for updates.

Where: Millhopper Library on 43rd St., Gainesville, FL — Room B

Other information of interest:

What to bring: – A Native American style flute – A spirit of exploration for the music of the flutes

– Rhythm instruments: shakers, drums, rhythm sticks

If you want to come and just listen, you are welcome. If you want to try a flute to see what it is like, many of our members bring extras and would be happy to let you try out a flute.

One of the things we focus on in the group is learning to improvise with the flute and the rhythm instruments. Below are three samples of improvisations we did at the Gainesville Flute Circle. Keep in mind no one quite knew what they were going to play ahead of time. There was no sheet music to follow.

A group of us at Flute Circle walked around in a circle while playing to the rhythm. Totally improvised. Below.

This next sample includes Jeff on flute, Greg on ukulele and Judy on the thunder machine.

Below the sample is a fast-paced dance. Often it is easier to hear the higher pitched flutes at the faster pace and certainly it is easier to play the smaller flutes at a faster pace!

This final sample below is our practice using ostinatos ( a repeated pattern /phrase of music). You will hear 2 or 3 people playing a pattern together with their flutes on the same key of flute. Two folks are playing percussion (drum and shakir) and the solo flute player improvises and weaves a song.

Below is a Gainesville Flute Circle spontaneous song with 13 members (in the first photo below) on percussion while John plays his drone flute. Enjoy.

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