Tom Mauchahty-Ware
Thomas Mauchahty-Ware II | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1949年03月21日)March 21, 1949 |
| Died | November 3, 2015(2015年11月03日) (aged 66) |
| Instrument(s) | singing, drum, Native American flute, harmonica, guitar |
| Years active | 1970s–2000s |
| Formerly of | Blues Nation |
Tom Mauchahty-Ware (March 21, 1949 – November 3, 2015[1] ) was a Kiowa/Comanche musician.[1] He was a Southern Straight dancer and a member of the Kiowa O-Ho-Mah Lodge society.[1]
Early life
Thomas Ware was born on March 21, 1949, to Wilson Ware (Kiowa) and Pearl Pewo Ware (Kiowa/Comanche) in Oklahoma.[1]
Career
As a musician, he drummed and played the Native American flute, harmonica, and blues guitar. He formed the band Blues Nation in 1990.[1]
He was an accomplished American Indian dancer and regalia maker. He was a skilled visual artist: painting, sculpting, making flutes, bead working, and feather working.
He was a descendant of the famous Kiowa flutist, Belo Cozad, and made two commercial recordings, Flute Songs of the Kiowa and Comanche (1978) and The Traditional and Contemporary Indian Flute of Tom Mauchahty Ware (1983).[2]
Films
- Songkeepers (1999, 48 min.). Directed by Bob Hercules and Bob Jackson. Produced by Dan King. Lake Forest, Illinois: America's Flute Productions. Five distinguished players of Native American flute - Tom Mauchahty-Ware, Sonny Nevaquaya (Comanche), R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo/Ute), Hawk Littlejohn, Kevin Locke (Standing Rock Lakota) – talk about their instrument and their songs and the role of the flute and its music in their tribes.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e Daffron, Brian (December 4, 2015). "Gifted Musician Tom Mauchahty-Ware Walks On" . Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ "Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore". The American Folklife Center . Library of Congress. 2009. Archived from the original on 2011年03月30日. Retrieved 2010年08月13日.
- ^ Joyce-Grendahl, Kathleen. "Songkeepers: A Video Review". worldflutes.org. Suffolk: International Native American Flute Association. Archived from the original on 2006年03月03日. Retrieved 2010年08月13日. And: National Museum of the American Indian. Archived September 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Tom Mauchahty-Ware, Apple music
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