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Welcome to the sixteenth annual
Native Rhythms Festival
November 8 - 10, 2024
coming to you live from
Wickham Park
Melbourne, Florida
brought to you by
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Indian River Flute Circle |
Native Heritage Gathering, Inc. |
The Indian River Flute Circle and Native Heritage Gathering, Inc.
proudly present the sixteenth annual gathering of the Native Rhythms Festival.
This three day festival during Native American Heritage Month honors the culture of the indigenous
peoples of the Americas through music, and especially the music
of the Native American Flute.
Welcome to the cyberhome of the Native Rhythms Festival.
All available information regarding our sixteenth annual festival will be available here. Please feel
free to browse.
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NOTICE
Our website is undergoing transition from the information
for last year's festival to that for 2024. As pages are updated, the logo in the upper left hand corner will be
changed from the 2023 logo (buffalo) to the 2024 logo (Sandhill crane).
Check back from time to time as we update our information when new
information is available for release.
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While we transition this website from the
2023 festival to the 2024 festival, you will find pages from both years'
events. You can tell when a page has been updated to this year's
information by the presence of our 2024 logo (with the sandhill crane, as on this page)
replacing our 2023 logo (with the buffalo).
This website is a living entity that will grow throughout the process of planning this year's
festival to keep you informed with our latest information.
Native Rhythms Festival
has a presence in the Facebook community! Click
here to join our fans and keep up with all
announcements regarding this year's festival.
["Like" Native Rhythms Festival
on Facebook and help us get to 6500 "likes" by
2024 festival time!]
Background
on This Year's Theme and Logo
Painted Raven's Annette Abbondanza, creator of this year's logo,
introduces this year's theme and logo.
Our Diamond and Platinum Level Sponsors
We will soon open our 2024 sponsorship drive and
welcome all who wish to provide direct support for this event by
becoming a Native Rhythms Festival
sponsor. We offer a five level sponsorship program that puts Native
Rhythms Festival sponsorship within the reach of almost
all budgets. Those who participate at the highest levels, our
Diamond and Platinum Sponsors, will be prominently featured here on our
event homepage. Find all of our 2024 sponsors
listed on our Sponsors Page.
We are grateful to all of the organizations and individuals whose
support makes this event possible, but we
give a special recognition here on our homepage to our Diamond
and Platinum Level Sponsors:
2024 Diamond Level Sponsors
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James Edward Hudock Trust Fund
thanks to David Clay and Associates
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Sandy Michelson
West Melbourne, FL
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2024 Platinum Level Sponsors
Want to join the Native Rhythms Festival team?
If you know businesses or individuals who might like to offer their financial support for
Native Rhythms, we hereby deputize you to round
them up as event sponsors. No rewards, other than the satisfaction of knowing you have helped make
this year's festival a success, which will bear directly on our ability to offer a '24
Native Rhythms.
Click here to download the
invitation to sponsor letter and agreement in Word format.
Click here to download the
sponsor letter and agreement in PDF format.
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2024 Headline Performers
Festival weekend will feature a continuous flow of
top flight entertainment coming from the amphitheater stage. We
are proud to present our program of headline performers. As in the past,
these performers include GRAMMY, "NAMMY" (Native
American Music Award), and ISMA (Indian Summer Music Award)
winners and nominees.
Use your virtual backstage pass to find photos, CD offerings, and
biographic information for our performers on our Backstage
Pass Page,
or click on the individual performer's photo or name below to go directly to their bio.
Our 2024 headline performers will be posted here as we confirm their appearance.
Announcements will also be made on our
Facebook page. For now, here are our confirmed 2024 performers. |
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