A new event this year! Come early to our pre-festival Vendor and Volunteer BBQ and Pool Party on Thursday afternoon at the Oakhurst Lodge . Please RSVP (required) to reserve your spot, and come
enjoy a pre-festival gathering of food, music, and fun! There will be an open mic!

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Plan on bringing your favorite instrument and join us under the
shade of the giant Oak by the open mic stage on Saturday at 11 am.
Last year was a huge success with over 50 participants.
We plan on many more this year. More info soon!

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OPEN MIC!
Submit the names of each performer and instrument(s) to be played, plus any information that would be helpful to: Yosemitefluteandartfestival@gmail.com.
Please title your email "Open Mic". Open Mic Schedule: Friday 12:00pm to 4:00pm,
and Saturday 10:00am to 4:00pm Sunday 10:00am to 2:00pm

To all our performers, vendors and everyone who attended the first annual Yosemite Flute and Art Festival:

I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank everyone who joined us at the Yosemite Flute and Art Festival.  The festival was an absolute success and everyone who attended was in awe of the joy and love they found here.  The energy of the area, being so close to Yosemite National Park, supported the peace, harmony and reverence we all experienced throughout the event.

Some of the peak moments included a magnificent drum circle on the grass under the trees on Saturday.  The joy and delight that came from the drum circle filled the entire festival, bringing smiles to everyone in the park.  We will definitely plan this every year.  The open mic performances were so much fun and enjoyed by so many people throughout the weekend.  Thank you to everyone who shared their gifts from the day stage.

We were graced with magnificent performances at both evening concerts.  I would like to extend one more huge THANK YOU to Mary Youngblood, Vince Chafin and his ensemble, Scott August, Mark Holland, and the Jeff Ball Band.  We enjoyed not only the fabulous music, but fun and laughter as well.  We were honored to have each of you join us for this first year event.

I look so forward to the 2009 event.  We are excited and working on all the plans already.  Mark your calendars and please join us for another magnificent opportunity to share with not only friends, but a chosen family of fluties, on a mission to play and live from the heart.  September 25-27, 2009!   Destination: Yosemite Flute and Art Festival.

Rick Dunlap

Founder, Managing Director

Welcome to our new MySpace page!, and what a successful first annual Yosemite Flute and Art Festival!

We wish to thank all who attended and made it such a huge success. We have head many seasoned vendors also mention that it felt like a 4^th or 5^th year festival, which is always good to hear.

This will be an annual event, and will occur on the last weekend of September each year.  The second annual event will be held:
September 25, 26 and 27^th, 2009.

If you are like many others who have already booked their rooms for next year, please be advised that they rooms do fill up early. We will be reserving a block of rooms shortly to make sure you get a Festival discount. Please stay tuned to this MySpace and the official website www.YosemiteFluteFest.com for news once that has occurred. We also encourage you to subscribe to this blog to keep up on current news with regard to the Yosemite Flute and Art Festival.

I would like to encourage anyone who has video (YouTube or other digital formats), photos, and stories about their experience at this year's festival to please submit them to me to include on the website and in our blog. Photos can be emailed to cblackwolf@sbcglobal.net.

~Cryss BlackWolf
Sierra Raven Clan