We're bringing you a brilliant conversation on with this full moon night, with visiting friends R. Carlos Nakai, of Navajo and Ute heritage - and the world's premier performer with the Native American flute - and Will Clipman, passionate world percussionist, poet and performing artist.

(Please pardon the scratchy voices and coughing in this epsode. We'd been having a lovely time together roaming around Orkney together with RC and Will and their wives, Pam and Sherry, for several days before we recorded this. Unfortunately, along with the stories, music and breaking bread we also passed around a pretty bad cold.)

We're so pleased to bring you this far-reaching and musical conversation among friends. Join us to hear about these and many other things:

• R. Carlos Nakai speaks of ancient tribal history from his early home in Arizona
• About ceremony, culture, storytellers and gathering knowledge from the elders
• Will's early beginnings with drumming; being born to a musical family in Philidelphia; What's in the "boom boom room"?
• The musical marriage of RC's Native flute and Will's passionate percussion
• The Native "culture of women" - life creators
• RC: Learning how we belong - "Who are you?"; philosophies and stories of all of our clans all over the world
• Will: finding his Swedish Sámi roots; the Sami Pathfinder and the ceremonial drum
• Singing the songs of humanity, and the ancestors' residing in the music
• We all have one human story
• The magic of music, improvisation and what the listener brings to the music
• Anthropologists as listeners
• Shapeshifter and the wallaby dance
• Working with children: mythic creation, mask-making and storytelling; the power of saying, "Yes!"
• A musical treat, and a bit about how RC and Will approach performing together
• Singing to the sea; praying to the water
• Drumming inside the Dwarfie Stane
• Will tells a Sami raven tale, and other stories from RC and Will's Indigenous cultures
• The freedom of poetry and making music
• Elders in many cultures; the knowledge within us

Website for R. Carlos Nakai: https://rcarlosnakai.com/

Website for Will Clipman: https://www.willclipman.com/

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