Welcome. Randy Granger is a New Mexico musician, award-winning songwriter, composer, independent recording artist and workshop presenter. A multi-instrumentalist, Granger's Southwest Americana style fuses New-Folk, Native American Flutes the mesmerizing Hang Drum, emotive vocals and evocative songwriting. Listeners and audiences respond to his moving and dynamic music. Programs like Hearts of Space, Native Radio, Audiosyncracy, Soundscapes, PANDORA, SIRIUS, podcasts and on community and public and satellite radio stations around the globe. CDBABY.COM and CNET.COM write, "Within each performance, there is an incredible stillness and reflection...." mirroring what reviewers, programmers and critics say. Granger's CD "A Place Called Peace" is a "Lifestyle Award" nominee for "Best Native American Album" by New Age Reporter voted on by broadcasters worldwide. The CD is a 2009 Indian Summer Music AwardWinner in the "Flute" category. Randy is a finalist for the Great American Song Contest 2008 and received an honorable mention "Peace Driven Songwriting Awards."
Randy's earned recognition for his songwriting, flute playing, composing, production, published poetry and as a winner/nominee in several New Mexico Music Industry Awards and NAMMY categories including “Best Flutist” “Traditional” and “New Age” recordings. Hear the NPR "Soundclip" segment profiling Randy and his Hang drum on All Things Considered. He is a popular Workshop Presenter at festivals such as INAFA, Gathering of Nations, Sundance Film Festival, World of Faeries Festival, Casa Grande Native American Music Festival, Zion Flute & Drum festival as well as a solo, touring performer and has performed with R. Carlos Nakai, Michael Graham Allen and many leading recording artists. He earned 2nd place at the Musical Echoes Native American Flute festival in Florida. View videos on his YOUTUBE page. Randy on MySpace or Facebook.
Randy's emotive, sensuous music is used in films, documentaries, commercials, Internet Radio, commissioned by Dance Companies and radio programs, on websites, Hospice and Hospitals. He tours, volunteers music at Hospice, performs in concert, festivals, state fairs, special events like the Centennial Celebration of the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, bookstores, is a published poet, writes regular Blogs, is a regular guest on Public and Community Radio, is the subject of print interviews and TV including for the New Mexico Music Commission’s “Southwest Sounds” series featured on KOAT-TV, Albuquerque and on their YouTube channel. Granger is always recording and releasing new music through his website and online retailers like Amazon.com, CDBaby.com and Randy is a member of INAFA & ASCAP & AFM Local 466. Listen to a recent interview with Randy and Poet Wayne Crawford - Click here.
New Mexico Magazine reviewed his music as "having more depth than others of his musical genre." Born in an oil-field town in southeastern New Mexico his ancestry is a mixture of Amer-Indian, Mestizo and others. Specific tribes are Chol, Athabascan, Apache, Dogrib confirmed through DNA tests. One hears the multi-cultural southwest influence in his music as well as diverse styles like Radiohead, Jazz, the American Songbook, Leonard Cohen, Dead Can Dance, Nina Simone and Celtic music. A lifelong musician, Randy is a distillation of all the music that makes us feel something and connects to that source of inspiration, creativity. He has said in interviews that all his ancestors meet in his heart--and that's where the music is made. That connection is apparent in every note.
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