Sometimes I get Lazzzyyy.....

So there are times that I never come on here cus I can get lazy doing other things that need to be done. So things that are new for the SFW NF Ensemble....doing lots of consulting for various groups about the history and value of learning and playing the Nose-Flute. Sometimes I still find it strange that people from all over the world are still discovering this instrument. Shame it barely exists in the "real" world still.

Anyways, recent article on all things Noseflute...Check it out! Great Resource.

http://nose-flute.blogspot.fr/2012/04/slappyfeatherwhistle-nose-flute.html

later...hopefully sooner than later. werd.

Noseflute @ Firefly

So as I am back in Canada doing the magic thing schedules worked out and we were able to perform with Firefly Theatre in there show Up to Here. It was a "best of"......and though we were missing a member due to the flu the Ensemble did a great job re-playing/dancing Mozart Symphony #40 in G Minor. Our public domain hit! Lots of great comments on there performances after the show. We even had an alumni member Grace Bogowicz join us for the first time since 1882....ok well not that long ago but last time she was 9 and now she is 21. Yikes! Other members included Karyn Mott, Scott Shpeley, Olivia Felicitas, Victoria Felicitas, Ryan Sigurdson, and we were sadly missing Jon Manning and Kelley Mckinlay.

Anyhow, in the next little while I will be putting up some Alumni Members biographies on the blog. It would be interesting to see what and where past nosefluters are up to now a days. Hopefully they still have there nostrils in good working order for upcoming shows.

In the mean time check out www.fireflytheatre.com

Adios Amigos.

Nose-Flute @ the Vancouver Olympics!

Yay! So nose-flutes were somewhat exposed to most of the world. Fellow Nose-Flute friend and amazing musician Tim Tamashiro has informed me that the Nose-Flute was used at the Vancouver Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony to introduce William Shatner. Well done Tim. Keep spreading the Nose-Flute love to the world my friend.

Please check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em9snMKmHp8 or http://bit.ly/9U1tfb.

Anna Biernacki's Teaching Adventures

Fellow Ensemble member Anna Biernacki went on a trip to Fiji. On the western side of Fiji's main island there was a little village called Abaca. It was there that Anna taught some of the village people all about the Nose-Flute. Well done Biernacki. Keep spreading the word!

Cousins and Cameron

So one of my aunts has 8 kids in Montreal. Yes 8 KIDS!!!!! Not sure how they handle it but fellow Nose-Flutists Natanielle Felicitas went to Montreal not too long ago. Luckily she had a million nose-flutes on her and distributed, taught, and corrupted my cousins into playing Montreal style. The photo depicts 6 out of the 8 as the other two had nose bleeds for playing to hard. Totally Hard Core!

On another note Nose-Flute alumni Cameron Mckinlay has been shaking his skinny ass with Cirque du Soleil in LOVE in Las Vegas. He has made a video of behind the scenes and I encourage everyone to vote for it as he could win 5K!!! Do you know how many Nose-Flute that could buy???? Anyways congrats to my man Cam as we all know without his hard core Nose-Flute Choreography training he might not have ended up with Cirque du Soleil. right?

http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/about/25/americas/community/cineweb/all-weeks/other_side_of_the_sun.aspx

Educating Japan

Just heard word that the SFW Nose-Flute Ensemble have some fans in Japan. Well, a teacher originally from America is teaching a musical theatre group in Japan. His name is Gart and apparently he had bought a wack load of nose-flutes back in the day. Came across the ensemble and now has future plans to teach the japanese kids of Komatsu Japan the nose-flute with intentions of putting something together in their theatre shows. This is great news. The more we can inspire to blow through the nose, the better. Nose-Fluters Unite!!

http://osugimusicaltheatre.com/

Natanielle heads to Ottawa

Natanielle Felicitas, a long time member is heading to Ottawa for an internship at an art centre somewhere in the nations capital. After writing paper after paper about arts, management, grants, Nose-Flute, etc...she is finally putting her schooling into practice. She had a fare well party at Circles in Edmonton. It was a great turnout. Because of my travels across the globe it was a bit of a rush to get some Nose-Fluters together for a rehearsal for the gig. And I really wanted to play a new song. Something catchy, something that is so lovely to hear you never want it to end......

Well over the past year, Emma Hooper, fellow nose-flautist and I have discovered an old Ukulele song called "Tonight you Belong to Me" by Billy Rose and Lee David in 1926. It was made popular by Steve Martin's movie The Jerk. There is something about this song that everybody loves. Truth be told, I have played this song at least 20 times a day in my flat. I felt a bit better when Emma told me the same thing. In the end the four of us that could make it to the party put our Nose-Flutes to our faces and infected the crowd with this beautiful ditty. At the end of the show, somebody came up to me and said that she was just listening to the song in her car and that she too can't get enough!!!! Seriously, play it, sing it, listen to it.....LOVE IT.