Contemporary Native American Flute Music Duo NightDancers Honored with
an Indian Summer Music Awards (ISMA) Nomination and Invitation to
Perform at Indian Summer Festival 2008

NEW YORK, NY - - Contemporary Native American Flute Music Duo
NightDancers has been honored with an Indian Summer Music Awards
(ISMA) nomination for their debut album entitled MONTANA CROSSINGS in
the Native Heart category. Indian Summer Music Awards (ISMA)
recognizes and promotes the very best in commercially released Native
American music created by both established and emerging artists. The
ISMA Awards are presented live during the Indian Summer Festival held
September 5-7 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the awards ceremony on
Saturday, September 6, 2008. Entries are judged by a panel of
respected professionals from across the music and entertainment
industries. Winners are selected from 13 categories including Folk,
Alternative Rock, Classic Rock, Hip Hop, Spiritual, Traditional Drum,
Native Heart and more!

An invitation to perform live at Indian Summer Festival 2008 was
extended to NightDancers for Sunday, September 7th, Harley Davidson
Stage, at 5:30pm. NightDancers has accepted but prior commitments and
scheduling/routing issues has Gera Clark remaining on tour in Ireland
and France. John Sarantos will perform with very special guest artists
Jan Seiden and Redbelly (David Martinka). Sarantos' set will include
songs from MONTANA CROSSINGS as interpreted by his musical guests.

MONTANA CROSSINGS - the debut studio recording from New York City
based composer/flautists Gera Clark and John Sarantos is a well-
crafted, melodic gem of an album featuring themes of exploration,
transformation, interconnection and grace. Recorded at the world-
famous AVATAR Studios in NYC by Jim Anderson, with mastering by Fred
Kervorkian, CLARK and SARANTOS assembled a team which successfully
captured the essence of NightDancers' vision. MONTANA CROSSINGS
contains 15 instrumental tracks featuring twenty-five flutes
representing eleven flute makers from coast-to-coast. No overdubbing
or sound samplers were used on the recording. Montana Crossings/GENRE:
Native - New Age - World; FORMAT: Instrumental - Public Radio -
Variety - World; MUSIC STYLE: Contemporary Native American Flute;
STREET DATE: May 29, 2007.

ABOUT NIGHTDANCERS: New York City based composer/flautists Gera Clark
and John Sarantos, known collectively as NightDancers, enjoy sharing
instrumental flute music with a unique style that takes listeners on a
musical journey . . . painting sound pictures with original
contemporary Native American flute songs - successfully capturing the
soothing, mystical and healing qualities which are the heart and soul
of Native American flute music. Clark and Sarantos met while attending
a Renaissance of the Native American Flute (RNAF) workshop in 2005,
which eventually led to jamming together via speakerphones 1,000 miles
apart. NightDancers was formed in 2006. Ms. Clark has been teaching
flute in the tradition of her Native American flute mentors, Franc
Menusan, John Rainer Jr. and R. Carlos Nakai. As one of the world's
premier Native flute teachers, Mr. Sarantos has facilitated
contemporary Native American flute workshops from coast to coast for
over 14 years. For 11 summers he has worked with Ken Light and R.
Carlos Nakai at the Renaissance of the Native American Flute workshop
in Montana and has written six songbooks for the native flute. He was
also a contributor to Odell Borg's recent book release, Native Spirit
Song Book Volume Two.
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Visit the NightDancers Website at: http://www.nightdancersmusic.com

ABOUT INDIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL: Indian Summer Festival, North America's
largest American Indian cultural festival celebrating its 22nd
anniversary, is dedicated to strengthening the American Indian
community and educating the general public on the history and the
unique and diverse cultures of the American Indian by providing a
forum to celebrate and showcase American Indian traditions. For
further information, visit http://www.indiansummer.org

ABOUT JAN SEIDEN: Jan Seiden's moving and soulful eloquence speaks the
language of the heart. Evocative music of flutes from the ancient
Anasazi people and other more contemporary indigenous nations flow
with themes of nature and global unity. First Place winner of the 2002
Musical Echoes Native American Cultural Gathering's national flute
players' competition and 2006 recipient of an Individual Artist Award
from the Maryland State Arts Council, Seiden has performed at the
Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and many other
concert stages across the U.S. both solo and sharing stages with
Grammy award winners Joanne Shenandoah, Mary Youngblood, Tito LaRosa,
and with Nammy-winners Arvel Bird and Jeff Ball. WOODLAND WINDS,
Seiden's solo CD, was a 2004 nominee for the Indian Summer Music
Awards. MEMORY OF TIME, her newest CD, debuted on the charts at #19
(New Age Reporter, April 2008). For further information, visit
http://www.janseiden.com

ABOUT REDBELLY (DAVID MARTINKA): As a self taught musician David
Martinka draws on nature, life and his inner self to create his songs.
With a long family history of music and love for the Native American
Flute, David Martinka is the first bridge to the courting, healing,
and peaceful side of both the Native American Style Courting Flutes
and the Native Slovakian Courting Flutes. LEGENDS OF TIME, Martinka's
solo CD, was a 2006 nominee for the Indian Summer Music Awards. For
further information, visit http://www.redbellymusic.com