Sit along side Oak Creek and listen to elders Jerry Honawa (Hopi) and Uqualla (Havasupai) express their traditional music along with harp guitarist William Eaton, flutists: Claudia Tulip and John Dumas and world percussionist Three Trees. See the traditional elegance of belly dancer Carrie Konya and hear the sage wisdom of famed Sedona author and poet James Bishop.

Throughout the concert each of the four elements will have a special symbolic presentation expressed through music, dance and poetry. Four sets of traditional gourd water drums, representing the four directions, will be featured in a ritual water piece.

Listen deeply to the water of Oak Creek, during this special water meditation honoring
the water vessel that is each one of us. Musical instruments made from clay will accompany indigenous chants, grounded within the earth, our home. A special belly dance will express air and the lightness of being. Poetry and the driving rhythm of drums will give expression to the fire within.

Students from the Hopi High School and Sedona Red Rock High School will share poetry and dance together inspired by this years student exchange funded by the Arizona Community Foundation.

"This concert offers us the opportunity to slow down for a moment, to feel and remember the source of our past, present and future within the life giving elements of earth, air, water, fire." - William Eaton

Earth Day allows each of us the opportunity to contemplate and reflect upon the amazing miracle of life on the only habitable planet that we know of. As our shared knowledge grows, so does our understanding of the unique bio diversity that allows our existence, and heightens our awareness and responsibility towards improved stewardship.

The Twilight Earth Concert is free to the public and is sponsored by the Institute of Ecotourism. Please join us for this opportunity to dwell alongside the waters of Oak Creek and celebrate this day. For more information please contact: Diane Dearmore, Director, Institute of Ecotourism 282-2720 or William Eaton, 204-1980.

Information about the presenters:

Uqualla will be one of the many performers at the Earth Day concert beginning at 6pm on April 22 creek side at Los Abrigados Resort and Spa.

Uqualla - Uquallas’ life path, began on the rim of the Grand Canyon. He was raised in the traditional ways by his family, particularly by his medicine-man grandfather. It was from wisdom keepers that Uqualla learned the native stories and spiritual beliefs of his people the Havasupais.

Uquallas’ power as a performer has been honed over a long career. he has led his people as tribal chief, a ceremonial, dresser, a traditional advisor, a steward of cultural events. Uqualla is known throughout the southwest for the traditional pageantries he creates and produces, Southwestern and native design performances. Uqualla continues to coordinate dance troupes, and performs ceremonial theatre internationally.

Creativity is the philosophy Uqualla lives by and manifests collaboration of unique proportions.

Flutist Claudia Tulip will be one of the many performers at the Earth Day concert beginning at 6pm on April 22 creek side at Los Abrigados Resort and Spa.

Claudia Tulip - Classically trained, jazz influenced and world music inspired, Claudia performs on silver and ethnic flutes. She has written for ensembles, dance companies,
theatre and video and has performed at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Estes Park Folk Festival and on Good Morning America.

Recording credits include her flute album Migrations and albums by William Eaton, Chris Spheeris, Sharon Burch and Ani Williams. Tulip studied the nationally renowned children's music program, Music Together with founder Ken Guilmartin and now directs her own center, Music Together of Scottsdale.

William Eaton - Acknowledged as one of the worlds great designers and builders of unique stringed instruments, Eaton began playing the ukulele and guitar at age seven.

As an apprentice to John Roberts, he built his first guitar in 1971 and co-founded the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix in 1975, where he continues as director of
the school. An innovative artist, Eaton has composed for and performed with the Amadeus Trio, Nouveau West Chamber Orchestra, the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra
and with his own group the William Eaton Ensemble.

His recording career includes six collaborations with R. Carlos Nakai for Canyon Records, including two Grammy
Nominated albums: Ancestral Voices and most recently, In A Distant Place with Nakai, Will Clipman and Tibetan Flutist Nawang Khechog. Eaton has also won a NAMMY award for best instrumental album, Red Wind, a trio with Nakai and Clipman.

Separately, Eaton has released five recordings on the Canyon label, including the recently released double CD set: Sparks and Embers (William Eaton Ensemble with Claudia Tulip, Allen Ames, Will Clipman and Mary Redhouse), engineered and recorded by the legendary Jack Miller; Wisdom Tree that features bassist extraordinaire Edgar Meyer; and Where Rivers Meet, which earned the ensemble a Billboard Critics Choice award.

Author and poet James Bishop will be one of the many performers at the Earth Day concert beginning at 6pm on April 22 creek side at Los Abrigados Resort and Spa.

James Bishop long time resident of Greater Sedona, is an author, poet, free lance writer, editor and creative writing instructor who is also committed to grass roots organizing, arts advocacy and environmental sanity.

Since leaving the nation's capital for the West two decades ago, he has served as a consultant to government agencies and non-profit organizations ranging from the RAND Corporation to the Grand Canyon Trust, The Aspen Institute at Wye Plantation to American Rivers and the Coconino
National Forest, Sedona Ranger District and the Sedona Creative Life Center.

His writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines from Seattle to Denver, Prescott,
Arizona to Washington D.C. His book, Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey is now in paperback.

Jerry Honawa is a Hopi Village Elder, Hotevilla, of the Rabbit-Tobacco clan and keeper of the sacred pipe. An active environmentalist with the Black Mesa Trust, he presented at the AIGC 2005 Annual Conference and Traditional Knowledge Gathering, and participated in the 2006 World Water Forum.

In 2007 he was one of the visionaries of Carrying the Gift of Water and continues to be a vital part of the Hopi-Sedona Student Exchange. Jerry teaches Hopi children the traditional language and Hopi ways passed on from Jerry's grandfather and his peers to carry on the importance in living in harmony with Mother earth.