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Gary Stroutsos, one of the world’s premier players of Native American flute music, will perform at 7 p.m., Wednesday, November 2 at the Yelm Timberland Library. In an interactive presentation for teens and adults entitled "Along the River: American Indian Flute Songs," Stroutsos will share music, stories and traditions of the Northern Plains Indians and their perspective on the Lewis and Clark expedition. This program is a Humanities Washington Inquiring Mind presentation. It is free of charge.

The presentation features haunting flute songs from the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Lakota tribes of North and South Dakota. After the presentation Stroutsos will take questions and encourage audience members to come forward to hold and look at his flutes.

Stroutsos’s music was showcased in the Ken Burns PBS documentary "Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery." Stroutsos has played at the White House and has recorded over a dozen CDs including the Grammy-nominated "Pacific Moon".

The library is located at 210 Prairie Park Street, Yelm. For more information, please call the library at (360) 458-3374.

Timberland Regional Library serves the information, reading and lifelong learning needs of the Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston county public at 27 community libraries and 4 school-based cooperative library centers. The library system is funded by local property taxes. For information on any subject, people in Grays Harbor County can telephone Timberland’s Central Reference Service librarians toll-free at 1-800-562-6022. Or they can "Ask a Librarian" online at www.trlib.org TTY users can contact the library at 1-800-603-6104. Anyone needing special accommodations to participate in a library’s program can contact the library 4 days in advance.

Revised 10/24/05