Tom Mauchahty-Ware

{{Short description|Native American musician from Oklahoma (1949–2015)}}

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| instrument = singing, drum, Native American flute, harmonica, guitar

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Tom Mauchahty-Ware (March 21, 1949 – November 3, 2015{{cite news |last1=Daffron |first1=Brian |title=Gifted Musician Tom Mauchahty-Ware Walks On |url=https://ictnews.org/archive/gifted-musician-tom-mauchahty-ware-walks-on |access-date=14 April 2024 |date=December 4, 2015}}) was a Kiowa/Comanche musician. He was a Southern Straight dancer and a member of the Kiowa O-Ho-Mah Lodge society.

Early life

Thomas Ware was born on March 21, 1949, to Wilson Ware (Kiowa) and Pearl Pewo Ware (Kiowa/Comanche) in Oklahoma.

Career

As a musician, he drummed and played the Native American flute, harmonica, and blues guitar. He formed the band Blues Nation in 1990.

He was an accomplished American Indian dancer and regalia maker. He was a skilled visual artist: painting, sculpting, making flutes, bead working, and feather working.

He was a descendant of the famous Kiowa flutist, Belo Cozad, and made two commercial recordings, Flute Songs of the Kiowa and Comanche (1978) and The Traditional and Contemporary Indian Flute of Tom Mauchahty Ware (1983).{{Cite web

|title=Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore

|work=The American Folklife Center

|publisher=Library of Congress

|accessdate=2010-08-13

|year=2009

|url=https://www.loc.gov/folklife/Symposia/LegendsLegacies/concerts.html

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110330020746/http://www.loc.gov/folklife/Symposia/LegendsLegacies/concerts.html

|archivedate=2011-03-30

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Films

Songkeepers (1999, 48 min.). Directed by Bob Hercules and Bob Jackson. Produced by Dan King. Lake Forest, Illinois: America's Flute Productions. Five distinguished players of Native American flute - Tom Mauchahty-Ware, Sonny Nevaquaya (Comanche), R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo/Ute), Hawk Littlejohn, Kevin Locke (Standing Rock Lakota) – talk about their instrument and their songs and the role of the flute and its music in their tribes.{{Cite web

|last=Joyce-Grendahl

|first=Kathleen

|title=Songkeepers: A Video Review

|work=worldflutes.org

|publisher=International Native American Flute Association

|location=Suffolk

|accessdate=2010-08-13

|url=http://www.worldflutes.org/video.html

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060303061417/http://www.worldflutes.org/video.html

|archivedate=2006-03-03

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}} And: [http://www.nmai.si.edu/calendar/index.asp?year=2006&month=9&day=9 National Museum of the American Indian]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901101048/http://www.nmai.si.edu/calendar/index.asp?year=2006&month=9&day=9 |date=September 1, 2006 }}

References

External links

[https://music.apple.com/us/artist/tom-mauchahty-ware/265821344 Tom Mauchahty-Ware], Apple music

Category:Native American beadworkers

Category:Native American flute players

Category:Native American painters

Category:Native American sculptors

Category:Kiowa people of Comanche descent

Category:1949 births

Category:2015 deaths

Category:Place of birth missing