Featured Artisan
Lakota George Estes
Native American Flute Player
and Master Flute Maker
by HeartSong
Let me tell you about my good friend,
Lakota George Estes
He is well known in many schools and art circles for his profound approach to relating the musical message of his flute to the sounds and feelings of nature.
He combines education with entertainment through his flute music and through his love of storytelling.
Lakota George (as his friends know him) travels around the country giving presentations and workshops on Lakota culture and Native American issues.
He has worked as a counselor, using his musical flute as a therapeutic tool.
George often plays for newborns, and ill children at various hospitals. Day care and nursing home workers find the peaceful music soothing and say it releases a power of cleansing and contentment.
I have come to learn what a truly gifted and benevolent man he is.
In his musical accomplishments, as well as his third generation master craftsman of Lakota style flutes, George invokes the music of his ancestors. Doing what he does brings honor to his family, extended family, and to the Lakota Nation.
Lakota George portraying the Ghost of Singing Water who is an Ogalala Sioux, friend of Seth Bullock. In 1992 episode of Unsolved Mysteries, "Shooting of Seth Bullock" Deadwood, South Dakota.
George is also a member of the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild and the Native American Actors and Performers Union. He has performed in the Michael Jackson "Black and White" video and in a segment on "Unsolved Mysteries" in Deadwood, South Dakota (as pictured below). He has created and played the background music for several TV documentaries and commercials. He participated in the opening ceremonies of the Mall of America and has performed at the Minnesota Institute of Arts. As a performer and representative of Native American Culture George is very much in demand throughout the U.S. and abroad.
A glance through Lakota George's scrapbook gives insight into the success of his performances. Newspaper clippings from cities throughout the U. S. , articles from business newspapers and letters from public and private schools, universities and from the children themselves are gratifying revelations of his success. Children have drawn pictures for him and written letters:
"Dear Mr. Lakota, when you played the flute I became a butterfly..."
"Dear Mr. Lakota, you were super. You are funny. I am part Indian and proud of it because of you. You taught what it's like to be a Native American. I'll remember that!"
"Dearest Lakota George, Hi! I loved it when you played the flute music. I was in Jamaica singing behind the trees. My favorite flute was the cedar flute."
We live in a time when Native American's spiritual Idea's of respecting
Grandmother Earth are lessons for all people and for all ages. Lakota
George reveals a message of the earth that is clearly visible in the
peaceful musical tones of his wooden flutes and in the soft voice of his humorous storytelling. Children young and old remember this message.
For interviews, performances, seminars and workshops please
e-mail Lakota George at: lakotageorgeestes@yahoo.com
All Flutes are made by hand in Lakota George's Flute Shop with the same spirit as Lakota George has for over 25 years. Click Below to enter into Lakota George's Workshop. I
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