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WELCOME to our Runa Pacha WIND RHYTHMS website!

The Runa Pacha WIND RHYTHMS (Pure Natives) are a younger generation carrying on the rich cultural traditions that we have inherited from our ancestors. We love sharing our heritage and unique music with all of you.

We are Inca and Navajo descendants, proud Native Americans from both Americas. Our ancestors from North and South America taught us how to play our instruments. By practicing and combining these techniques, we perfected the beautiful soothing music that you enjoy hearing us play. We make all the wind instruments ourselves, out of special wood and bamboo. Some of these traditional instruments are: panflutes, cedar flutes, charango, llama rattles/gourd rattles, aucarinas, rainsticks, eagle bone whistles, drums covered with elk or sheepskin and chagchas (rattles) made with deer hooves. Our family makes beautiful handmade items for art shows, fairs and festivals. We still live much as our forefathers did, by speaking our native language, growing our own food, weaving our own cloth, making crafts, trading in the market on Saturday's at dawn, and of course playing the music as it has been taught to us by our ancestors for generations. Our language, artwork, music and dance are important reminders of life's diversity and we enjoy sharing this with others.

The Runa Pacha WIND RHYTHMS band joined together over 15 years ago. We are Rumi (Stone), Inti (Sun), Rupay (Fire) and Lakota (People). We play Native American Traditional, Gospel and Contemporary music. Our band has performed all over the world in concerts, fairs, street festivals, and schools to share our culture and music. We feel that we have much to offer as performers and as ambassadors of our special culture.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FANS!

We love our fans and really appreciate your comments on our Guestbook. We have created our WHAT'S NEW page to keep you informed about current events and exciting new CD releases. You can also listen to samples of our music on our store's CD pages. Our EVENT calendar features the dates of our LIVE performances. We love to play our music and share our culture and art with the entire world, so our native people will never be forgotten.

Again, welcome to our website and we hope to see you at one of our performances.

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