SEATTLE'S TINGSTAD AND RUMBEL BRING HOME THE GOLD
It's a New Age for Grammy Winners Tingstad and Rumbel (Seattle, WA - February 24) Contemporary instrumentalists, Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel won the GRAMMY Award in the New Age category in recognition of "Acoustic Garden" during the 45th GRAMMY Awards in Madison Square Garden. This GRAMMY signifies and rewards an eighteen-year career and 13 collaborative recordings for Tingstad and Rumbel. Released in August, Acoustic Garden remained on the Billboard charts as well as the NAV radio charts for 18 weeks. In January, the album bounced from the #50 slot up to #19 on radio charts. The Chicago Tribune calls Acoustic Garden "a new kind of roots music." The Blade reports the album is "a melodic bouquet," and Salt Lake City's Deseret News says, "Acoustic Garden is joyfully abloom." The album can indeed literally blossom. The CD cover contains the first-ever plantable CD cover imbedded with wildflower seeds for an instant garden. Since the release of their debut album in 1985, Tingstad and Rumbel have been a top-selling duo for Narada Productions with classics such as The Gift, Woodlands, In the Garden and American Acoustic, which won Best Instrumental Album of the Year in 1998 from NAV. Tingstad is a classical guitarist trained by third generation Segovian masters. He is a native of Seattle and studied at Western Washington University. As one of the few premier woodwind players in the world performing on English horn and oboe, Rumbel studied with members of the San Antonio Symphony while growing up in Texas. She later studied with Ray Still of the Chicago Symphony while attending Northwestern University. She later toured for nearly five years with the legendary Paul Winter Consort. Acoustic Garden was one of five albums selected from 83 titles in the New Age category. Other nominees include Kitaro, Will Ackerman, R. Carlos Nakai and Jai Uttal & the Pagan Love Orchestra. For more information about Tingstad and Rumbel, their 18 year career, touring schedule and total discography visit www.tingstadrumbel.com.

Aldon Sanders and Ka Ehu Kai
"Aldon (a.k.a. "Michael Aldon Sanders) was born in the mountains of Fairmont, West Virginia, to a Korean cutie of a mom, and a burly West Virginia reverend of good breeding. By two years of age Aldon was living in Terrel, Oklahoma, a small bilingual (English/Spanish) farming town on the Red River, with his parents, 1 older sister, 3 older brothers and 1 younger brother. Within a few years, Aldon ended up in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, where he went to Ewa Beach Elementary, Ilima Intermediate, and James Campbell High School (grad. '83) . He began playing music in the seventh grade as a baritone horn player, and soon began to learn to play every kind of musical instrument he could get his hands on. (The obsession has continued to this day.) Aldon went to college at Oklahoma Baptist University. While there he met his wife, Kaye, in the university's symphonic band: she in the flute section, he among the saxes. During his college years, Aldon played saxophone and flute as a member of the United States Army Reserve. Today, in addition to staying busy with Ka Ehu Kai, he teaches ukulele & guitar, tutors English at San Jose State University, composes music, writes songs, and continues to learn to play as many instruments as come his way." Check Out Aldon's Solo CD on MP3.COM Aldon plays an Alan Albright double ocarina on "Ohana" and plays our ocarina on his solo recording of "Fairer". This can be heard at www.nowhereradio.com/onemanband.

Cornell Kinderknecht
Cornell Kinderknecht has recorded a wonderful cd entitled "Returning Home" using many fabulous handmade flutes, recorders and includes a piece using our double alto ocarina. Check out track #4 Generations!