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Spirit Wing

About Me

The members of Spirit Wing are; Barbara Gregg-Andrews Christy, (vocals, flutes, percussion)[Munsee/Kiowa decent] , Barry Lee (vocals, guitar)[adopted Munsee], Chris Hawley (bass, percussion)[Munsee decent], and Doug Penglase (percussion/guitar). Known for their impassioned performances, they have appeared at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Bethlehem Musikfest, and many other venues & Native American Festivals in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virgina, Texas, Kentucky, etc...... Their music comes from strong musical influences of their combined folk, acoustic, rock and country backgrounds. They also perform traditional Native songs that date back hundreds of years.Spirit Wing was a 2006 finalist in the Best Folk/Country category of the Native American Music Awards for their second CD "To Future From Past". In 2007, Spirit Wing was again honored as a finalist in the World Music Category of the Native American Music Awards for their third CD, "Flutes, Drums and Guitars" (an all instrumental CD). All of their CD's have received critical acclaim with airplay on Native American radio programs throughout the country.
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Music:

Member Since: 01/08/2006
Band Website: www.spiritwing.net
Band Members: Barbara Andrews-Christy/Native Flute, vocals and percussion-Barry Lee/guitar and vocals-Chris Hawley/bass guitar and vocalsDoug Penglase/ percussion and guitar
Influences: Joanne Shenandoah, Bill Miller, Doc Watson, BB King, Sharon Burch and a host of others...
Sounds Like: Our sound is very Americana type, with a Native American angle. We have been compared to Bill Miller, Joanne Shenandoah, etc.
Record Label: Independent Records (http://www.indierec.com/)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Discovery Channel lied to eveyone on the First Nations series

FriendsMany of you have heard us promote the upcoming series on Discovery Channel that was supposed to tell the real story of the First Nations people in their own words.Below is an attachment that ex...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:41:00 GMT

I am cancer free

 My surgery is over. I am now cancer free. My gratitude to my doctors and to Creator for allowing people to have such knowledge.I am in recovery now, and should be OK in about three to four weeks...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:46:00 GMT

I (Barry) will be going down for awhile

He' Everyone,On Wednesday, I will be going in for surgery for Prostate issues. I am told that my recovery is about 100% assured that I will be "normal" in a few weeks. (of course, normal for me is alw...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:00:00 GMT

spiritwing.org is now spiritwing.net

After at lot of work and designing and the like...spiritwing.org is now spiritwing.net with a new design.Not everything is operational yet...but will be in the future. Golly, this is a lot of work!!
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:11:00 GMT

We will branch into the Blues

We are working hard at writing new material for a new band that Spirit Wing is spawning.Same members and all that,  but we will be a Blues Band too! Spirit Wing will still exist, but we are going...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:22:00 GMT

Barb presents Jennifer Kreisberg her award at Nammys 9 In Niagara

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huNWQgFj0ro Barbara Presents Jennifer a NAMMY at the Ninth Annual Native American Music Awards
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:27:00 GMT

Check out "49'n" (does playing electric mean I have fallen to the Dark Side!))

I posted an unfinished (mixing wise) and unmastered song from our coming CD. Thinking about it...it’s not even the whole song! Just a blip!!Just put it on here to see if you folks like it. The s...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:03:00 GMT

2007, GOOD YEAR.

We have had quite a time!We would like to thank everyone for the support, friendship and experience of 2007!Our year, was unlike any other that we have had...and we are looking forward to 2008!We star...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:46:00 GMT

MP3’s on Spirit Wing

We'll we finally got around to having our music available in MP3 form on our website.We have gotten requests to do so, and we followed through.Many folks have asked for our songs from the upcoming CD....
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:38:00 GMT