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date: 6/03/06
Award
Winning Cherokee Artist TerryLee WHETSTONE - - -
American
Indian Flute Performer and Recording Artist Multi-media Artist,
Poet and Teacher, 2002 Grand Heritage Award at The Five Civilized
Tribes Museum in Muskogee, OK, 2005 ISMA (Indian Summer Music Awards)
Finalist in the Spiritual Class, Finalist in the Eighth (NAMMYS),
Native American Music Awards for 2006, in the Best New Age Recording
category. For 2006 and 2007; Art chosen for the Cherokee Heritage
Calendar. 2006 - TerryLee is a board member of GNAFC (Global Native
American Flute Circle).
TerryLee was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in a suburb of
Kansas City, Missouri. As an adult he has been able to fulfill a
lifelong dream of living in Oklahoma. Once known as Indian Territory,
Oklahoma is still home to more American Indians than any other state
in the Union. In fact, 39 tribal headquarters and members of at
least 67 tribes make their home in the state. It's a place where
time-honored traditions, cultural experiences and artistic expressions
are components of everyday life. TerryLee now resides in South East
Kansas, out with the cows and Mr. Coyote and other wild life.
TerryLee is a self-taught, talented American Indian Flute Performer
and multi-faceted Artist. TerryLee reflects the history of his Native
people in his music and art. TerryLee recognizes a deep Spiritual
connection and acknowledges these talents as gifts given to him
from the Father. His Spiritual connection guides him in all endeavors,
painting, poetry, jewelry design, or through the melodies he produces
when playing the American Indian Flute. TerryLee proclaims “It
is of the Father, my hands and eyes are guided by the heart and
then the mind. My art is directed Spiritually.”
TerryLee’s original compositions are Spiritually directed from
his state-of-mind and his surroundings. Many times he utilizes the
flute as a gateway linking the past with the present. Believing
that music is a universal language, he asks “what better way
to utilize the flute to tell a story?”
The American Indian Flute music has no titles or boundaries. Throughout
history music has been an integral part of everyone’s life.
It is heard in the gentle breezes blowing through the trees, or
in the babbling brook as rustling waters flow upon the rocks. Everywhere
you go music is with you, all you need to do is listen with your
heart and a story will unfold. “Come unite with me on a journey
through my music and art”. Let us not forget that friends become
our chosen family. “Welcome my friend. May we continue to journey
together with music in our hearts united by the one Father and our
Mother below our feet.”
TerryLee’s program is arranged around the teachings of the
medicine wheel.
TerryLee demonstrates his gift of utilizing energy through participation
with the audience and then composes an original melody using the
audience’s energy. He also invites children on stage to perform
a flute song with him.
TerryLee enjoys working with the youth. He is currently working
with Twin Arrow Boy Scouts in Tulsa, Kansas City’s Young Audience
Program and Mid-Continent Public Library in Independence providing
flute performance and educational programs.
TerryLee has an International audience in the following countries;
Austria, Australia, Bosnia, Canada, England, Germany, Japan, Romania,
Russia, South America, Spain and Ukraine. He recently did an interview
to be aired on a radio program in Russia.
TerryLee has won numerous awards for his art and sculpture. The
most recent is the Grand Heritage Award at the Five Civilized Tribes
Museum for his painting “Good Medicine.”
TerryLee’s music and artwork can be found: at his website at
www.terrywhetstone.com or in Alabama at Moundville Archaeological
Park, in Arkansas at The Circle Of Art Gallery, L.L.C. in Mammoth
Spring, at Cherokee Mountain Gallery and The Cherokee Store in Eureka
Springs, in Oklahoma at National Cherokee Museum in Tahlequah, Five
Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, and Pat’s Gallery in Bartlesville,
in Missouri at S & S Western Outfitters in Joplin, Three Trails
in Independence, in Illinois at Cahokia Mounds Interpretative Center
at Collinsville, and in Kansas at the Haskell Indian Art Market,
South West and More in Lawrence Kansas, Cherokee Accents in Corpus
Christi Texas, THE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM GIFT SHOP IN DC, and at One
Feather in Ft. Walton Beach Florida.
TerryLee believes that ‘All Life is Precious’. “
It is critical that we, as a people, take care of each other and
nature, and in turn all living things.” TerryLee’s beliefs
are demonstrated intensively in each of his paintings, sculptures,
jewelry, or his music. A Belief from the Heart; "Any player
will sound only as good as the spirit of the flute that they are
playing, but must also have a connected Spirit within." “It
is all of the Creator, giving me the ability to see and hear things
in the spiritual way. It is through Him that all things are possible.”
TerryLee
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Osiyo,
Every year I take the time to put down in words a thought of where
I am in this Wheel of Life. It helps me to have a clearer picture
of where I have traveled and the pathways ahead of me. It is usually
about a 2-3 liner but this time it seem to take a few more words.
Well what follows is it, and I think I have traveled far and have
a long ways to go.
Blessings.......
Wa-do' for being my Friends and Family on this journey in this Wheel
of Life.
Thoughts………
“Art is to me a part of my Life. No different then taking a
breath or getting out of bed. It is not something that is separated
from day-to-day Life. It all has to do with my Life and the need
to share in a beautiful way. It does not matter if it is painting,
composing music, recording music, playing music, and/or talking
and sharing with children or elders. Everything I do seems to be
so natural and in tune with all of Life. I believe this is because
everything to me is art related and is a part of my own Life Walk,
and as well as to the lives of all living things, our relatives.
For All Life is of the Creator and so is the True Art.”
Osta Nah wah tea (Good Medicine)
TerryLee WHETSTONE
Copyrights ã February 19, 2006
For Performances, Concerts or Educational Programs Contact:
TerryLee at..
tntndnart@terraworld.net
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TerryLee WHETSTONE
www.terrywhetstone.com
tntndnart@terraworld.net
twhetstone@terraworld.net
GNAFC (Global Native American Flute Circle) Board Member
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