Johnny Oberly

JOHNNY OBERLY

NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE SONGS

MEMBER OF THE EASTERN SHOSHONE TRIBE

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JOHNNY OBERLY

SINGER/SONGWRITER/FLUTE PLAYER/STORYTELLER

Venues:

2006-07: Westward Look Resort – Featured Performer, Tucson, AZ; Prescott Resort, Prescott, AZ (Arizona Indian Education Conference); Town and Country Resort, San Diego, CA (Native Women’s and Men’s Wellness V Conference); Club Congress at Hotel Congress, Bashful Bandit, Heart V, Belushe’s Bar and Grill, Epic Café, The Hut, The Cellar, Casa Vallarta – Tucson, AZ. Stonehouse Pavillion – Tempe, AZ; Doolen Middle School Art Day, Tucson, AZ; Eagle’s Nest School, Tuba City, AZ; Drexel Elem., Tucson, AZ; The Haven, Tucson, AZ.

2005: Sacred Grounds, Tucson, AZ; Raices Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ (Red-Ink Magazine Release Party); The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Tucson Indian Center, Tucson, AZ; Marriott, Tucson, AZ (AISES Banquet);

2003: Native American Music Festival, Sky Ute Casino, Ignacio, CO.
Prior to that… many open mic’s at Romero’s Mexican Restaurant and Cantina, El Patio, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO.

BIOGRAPHY

Hello my name is John Oberly (a.k.a. Johnny Oberly). I am a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. I grew up on the Wind River Reservation until my high school graduation. I started playing the guitar in my sophomore year of high school and immediately started writing lyrics and songwriting. I played with a high school “heavy metal” band for a couple of years, we called ourselves the “Nuclear Grizzlies.” In college, I discovered “open mic’s,” and would venture out to local coffee shops and restaurants to play in Durango, CO. I began singing traditionally at this time also; I enjoy traditional singing and I am a Men’s Northern Traditional dancer and Gourd dancer. I have composed traditional northern and southern songs and have incorporated this style of singing in my contemporary Native American songwriting as well. In 1996, I began playing the Native American flute after a synchronistic discovery of the instrument, over the past 10 years I have discovered my natural talent for playing the flute. I incorporate my music and traditional dancing into storytelling. I have performed for a variety of venues and for many diverse audiences.

In 2005, I released my first CD “Creator Be With Us” a collection of original Native American flute songs that I composed and produced on my own independent record label, Oberly Records. I am currently working on a second CD which is of my contemporary songwriting. I hope to be able to work on music full-time; writing, recording and performing. My songwriting is eclectic and it includes: Folk, alternative rock, blues, contemporary Native American music, and even a few country-western songs. In 2006-07, I played with a Heavy Metal band in Tucson, AZ called “Out from the Shadows,” playing at numerous venues in Tucson.

As a Native artist, my dream and vision is to be able to reach out to all people and communities and spread a message of: Well-briety, unity and healing though music…

Booking available at: alt_metal_music@yahoo.com;

also see www.myspace.com/johnnyobe

Or call (970) 799-4079.

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