One of the most musically-diverse performers on this CD is Kelly Anquoe. Raised up in the circle of perhaps the most renown powwow drum in the most tribally-diverse state in the nation, Kelly's music tradition is one handed down intergenerationally within the Anquoe family's Kiowa traditions. He plays with Greyhorse Singers annually at the Oklahoma Sovereignty Symposium, Cherokee National Holiday and many more places.

In the early 1980s, Tulsa had a vibrant underground New Wave and Punk scene, which added another dimension to his musical versatility. Kelly ended up in Tahlequah to attend college, where he has since graduated. He sings and plays guitar and bass guitar, rythms and drums, rattle and flute individually and with a variety of independent musicians such as Eddie Glenn and Debbie Duvall. Too, he has a day job, and he is a fine artist and a dad.

On this album, his feature song is Round Dance, although he performs also on Tahlequah Eyes, the Rickey Ray song. Round Dance is mesmerizing. You'll be driving down the highway listening to it, and find that you have been smoothly transformed into another dimension. The music becomes a theme song for the natural world that you are moving through, and somehow, it is like moving through water. It is like moving through tai chi forms. You realize how connected you are to the world, and how it is one big thing and you're a part of it. Round Dance comes at you on a visceral level, and once you let it in, it becomes the theme song for the big clockwork of the natural world.

This may be your first listening experience of traditional Native American music. You may find that it becomes a part of you.

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