Micki Free
In Concert with special guest William Eaton
Saturday, October 1, 7:00 pm
$20 adv, $22 door, $25 priority
GRAMMY® and Native American Music Award winner Micki Free releases New Album “The Native American Flute as Therapy” at Old Town Center for the Arts Concert
The Old Town Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a special concert with GRAMMY® and Native American Music Award winner Micki Free, Saturday, October 1st, 7:00 pm. Micki Free will be performing in full regalia, and will be performing at OTCA before departing on his 2016-2017 World Tour.
Free became well-known to a younger audience in 2004, when his manner of dress and appearance during the late ’80s (and that of Prince) was parodied by Dave Chappell in his Chappell’s Show sketch “Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories: Prince: Uncensored.” The skit is included in many “Top 10 Best” comedy lists, and according to BILLBOARD (4/25/16) it was viewed over 600,000 within days of Prince’s passing, generating interview requests and new interest in the long-term friendship between Free and Prince.
When Micki Free picked up the guitar for the first time as a young teenager after seeing Jimi Hendrix play live in Germany, he set a multi-faceted course with musical destiny that would alternately embrace and conquer the distinct worlds of rock and roll, pop/R&B and – drawing inspiration from his heritage as a mixed blood Cherokee/Comanche - Native American flute music. Over the past four decades, the GRAMMY® Award winner and five-time Native American Music Award winner’s eclectic muse has inspired him to find an artful cultural balance between the rock world and new age music as a renowned guitarist and flutist.
Discovered by Gene Simmons when his Illinois based band Smokehouse opened for KISS, Ted Nugent and REO Speedwagon, Free joined funk-soul group Shalamar in 1984, the year they reached the Top 20.
Mysterium Music, renowned for the label’s unique, high-quality, award-winning meditation and relaxation music welcomed GRAMMY® Award winner Micki Free to the label for the release of his next Native American flute album titled The Native American Flute as Therapy in August 2016. Free joins Mysterium’s roster of beloved New Age artists including Peter Kater, Agrelia’s Castle (Paul & April Brown), Paul McCandless, Paul Lloyd Thomas and vocalist Trisha Bowden.
The album, incorporating a unique blend of flute, spoken word and instrumentals, promotes relaxation and enlightenment. The collection will feature among its spiritually-uplifting song titles “Candle Light,” “Scented Oil,” “Positive Energy” and “Pressure Points.” He recorded “The Lavender Touch” on the day Prince passed away, and renamed it “Lavender Kiss” as a soulful lament for his friend, in the legend’s honor.
This new project is the latest addition to an instrumental music catalog that includes The Sun Chase, Free’s first love song flute CD written about his trials, hopes and loves through his travels on Native American Flutes; Sedona Free, written about the “sacred spiritual red earth” and Native American ancestors/peoples of Sedona, Arizona; and Comanche, which he dedicated to his family and the Comanche tribe.
In May, Free took a break from collaborating on the recording with producer/keyboardist Paul Brown in Nashville; he made a live guest appearance in Carlos Santana’s Las Vegas Show, recorded an interview for VladTV in Los Angeles, and attended MIDEM in France to establish international touring and distribution for both his Native American music and his Blues/Rock Band, American Horse.
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