The latest news from Scott August and Cedar Mesa Music The Scott August Newsletter August 2009 Member's Edition
	Scott August Newsletter August 2009           Echoes From The Mesa IN THIS ISSUE Scott August to perform at the Yosemite Flute & Art Festival Whale Song the new Free MP3 Download Video Page New Scott August CD update Peru Member Information   SCOTT TO PERFORM AT THE 2009 YOSEMITE FLUTE FESTIVAL! Scott August has been invited to perform at this year's 2009 Yosemite Flute and Art Festival. The festival will take place in the lovely town of Oakhurst, California on September 25-27, 2009. August will be performing during Friday night's concert on the 25th. Workshop August will also be giving a workshop for Intermediate/Advanced Native American flute. Please visit the workshop web page for more information and to enroll. Here is a quick description: Details: NAF effects: pops, chirps and more Advanced ornamentation: Trills, Turns, Tremolos and Tonguing effects Advanced Improvisation and Song construction: Melody types Cells: The building blocks of Songwriting Using the NAF scale to help you write tunes The Root note: How to exploit it or avoid it. Implying Harmony Private Lessons During the festival private lessons with Scott August on NAF, Anasazi flute and Mojave flute are available for all levels. To set up a lesson please contact Scott at info@cedarmesa.com General Festival Info Festival locations: Oakhurst Community Park, 49074 Civic Circle, Oakhurst,CA. Festival Times Friday: 11-5 Saturday: 9-5 Sunday: 9-3 Evening Concerts location: Yosemite High School theater arts building, 50200 Road 427, Oakhurst,CA. Concert Times 7:00 pm Tickets for the concerts are $20 per person per night or $30 for both nights. Yosemite Flute and Art Festival website for more information WHALE SONG: THE FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD On August 16th I was the guest artist on a KSBR whale watching cruise. I don't tend to take my full PA system with me as space is limited on the boat and the weather is unpredictable. However I do try to take some unusual flutes with me. For this cruise I decided to take the biggest, lowest pitched flute I own, a Pat Haran bass flute in D. My "whale" flute. I knew that by over-blowing in just the right way I could mimic the sound of whales and play some extra low notes to conjure up visions of these magnificent creatures, if not the real thing. Sure enough, right after I finished my improvisation on board the boat with this flute a Blue whale made it's presence known by surfacing nearby. It was a magical experience! The Blue Whale surfaces Blue Whales are the largest animal known to have ever existed on earth and this one was no exception. As it was feeding it would surface to breath, exhaling a spout of water vapor high into the air with a loud whooshing sound. Then slowly it would roll back under water, sometime showing it's dorsal fin. The ship that day was also accompanied by pods of dolphins. They swam along side the boat, surfed in it's wake, and leapt high in the air as if to show off. Most likely they were just feeding, but it was a fun counterpoint to the slow moving whale. A dolphin leaps high in the air Later that same day I did an afternoon performance where I played the song I had improvised on the boat that morning. This time I recorded and video taped the whale song. Performing on the bass "whale" flute in concert I took the recording back to my studio and edited together images from the concert and of the dolphins and the whale. The end result is the latest Free Member's Download. WHALE SONG Watch the video or listen to the music HERE   VIDEOS Don't forget, we've posted other videos of Scott August in concert. You can find them on YouTube or visit our Video Page.   NEW CD UPDATE Scott is hard at work writing and producing his fifth CD. No release date has been set but we are hoping that it will be done by early 2010. Stay tuned...   PERU This summer Scott got an unexpected chance to visit Peru. For those of you that are interested he has begun to post photos from his trip on his flickr.com page. New photos are being added all the timem he hasn't even gotten to the ones of Machu Picchu yet, and perhaps in the future Scott will post some blogs about his travels there... Here are photos some to start you on your journey... Here is some helpful information about how to access your Cedar Mesa Music / Scott August Emailing List Benefits PLEASE BOOKMARK THESE PAGES FOR FUTURE VISITS. THE CEDAR MESA MUSIC MEMBERS SECTION All member benefits can be accessed through the Members Page The Member's Section is not available to the public nor is it linked from the main site. We strongly suggest you bookmark this page. HOW TO GET YOUR 10% DISCOUNT For your 10% discount on CD purchases please visit the Cedar Mesa Music Member's Store. NON U.S. ORDERS: be sure and click on the International Order link once in the store. HOW TO ACCESS YOUR FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS The current free Member downloads can be found on the Member's Page. Look for the link called Downloads ECHOES FROM THE MESA: THE CEDAR MESA MUSIC NEWSLETTER Every quarter you will get our newsletter "Echoes from the Mesa" with news about my music, the Native American flute, free music downloads, my performance schedule and more. 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