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Senior Day presents Native flute player
(Feb. 20, 2008) The Betty Strong Encounter Center will honor Siouxland seniors with a free performance by Native flute player Michael Murphy at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28 in the Stanley Evans Auditorium. A reception will follow. The event will be free.
Murphy will take the audience back to
the origin of the Native flute and then
invite them on Along the way he will perform “Remember Me,” a song commissioned by the Center to honor the Sioux City Stockyards era. Murphy wrote the song as a companion piece to “A Way of Life I,” written by Marcia Poole and published by the Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center Association with funding from Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD). He is expanding the song in honor of “A Way of Life II: Stories from the Yards,” released in late 2007. The books have sold almost 2,600 copies. Murphy, an Omaha-based singer, performs throughout the country and teaches clinics and workshops in Native American flute. His albums include, “Peace,” “Ethnic Cleansing – Trail of Tears,” “Sacred Heart” and “Black Elk.” The Betty Strong Encounter Center is connected to the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, exit 149 off I-29. It is a private, non-profit institution built and sustained by Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD). For more information call 712-224-5242 or visit www.siouxcitylcic.com
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a musical journey that moves
from the Lewis & Clark Trail all the way up
to today.