Featuring World Class Musicians

Grammy nominated Bryan Akipa (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) is a Dakota flautist with five solo albums and numerous Native American Music Award nominations and honors. He collaborates with the South Dakota Symphony as part of their Lakota Music Project. Akipa attended the Institute of American Indian Arts and studied fine arts with Oscar Howe at the University of South Dakota at Vermillion.

Pamela Whitman founded Compassionate Heart Productions in 1989 to promote peace and intercultural understanding through music. She has toured nationally and internationally in collaboration with musicians such as Kevin Locke, Peru's leading pan flutist Cesar Villalobos, India's virtuoso tabla player Samir Chatterjee and more. She conducted a three-year cultural exchange with the kingdom of Nepal. Last year she and Akipa toured ten tribal schools in South Dakota.