October 18, 2013 – Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island I’m listening to this amazing CD we purchased in a Native Art Gallery in Duncan. The artist is R. Carlos Nakai, of Navajo-Ute heritage, playing the Native American flute. It’s not difficult to appreciate the incredible power of music when this starts playing. The feeling of calm and peacefulness that washes over you is almost intoxicating. I’m not suggesting everyone who hears it reacts this way but for me it’s beautifully soothing. Three CD’s have played a significant part in this trip. This one, the CD we bought first hand from the singer/musician, Joline Baylis who was playing in English Bay in Vancouver and one of my all time favourite musicians, Loreena McKennitt, a Canadian singer whose latest album, “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” Steve gave me
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