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title: Carlos Nakai to Perform with Peter Kater  at Awakening Kindness Concert
date: 2011-05-11T05:29:15Z
modified: 2011-05-11T05:29:15Z
permalink: "https://nko.org/carlos-nakai-perform-peter-kater-awakening-kindness-concert/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 1134
categories:
  - Environment
tags:
  - Environment
  - concert
  - Maui
  - music
  - Nawang Khechog
  - Peter Kater
  - R. Carlos Nakai
author: Paul Garrett Hugel
timestamp: 2011-05-11T05:29:15Z
---

 **![Carlos Nakai](http://images.patronmail.com/pmailemailimages/453/331019/photo_1.jpg) ![](http://www.globalmediaproductions.com/images/kater_gmp_home.jpg)

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**Tibetan flutist Nawang Khechog, arrived on Maui on Sunday afternoon to perform five “Awakening Kindness” concerts with me around Hawai`i, May 11th – 15th. While only yesterday we casually walked the beach, today, in a jolting and unexpected turn of events, Nawang underwent five hours of surgery to remove a large blood clot from his brain. This was probably a complication from a serious auto accident he was in a few years back in India. Currently, he is in intensive care and the outlook is cautiously optimistic. I humbly ask that you send him your prayers and healing energy.**

****As an expression of kindness, Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai is flying to Maui to perform the Awakening Kindness tour with me in honor of Nawang. Carlos and I started recording and touring together some 22 years go and I introduced Nawang and Carlos a few years later. Ironically, this will be the first time in over 10 years that R. Carlos Nakai and I have performed together in concert. Please join Carlos and myself at our Maui performance with prayers and/or support of our dear brother, Nawang Khechog. _– Peter Kater_****

**R. Carlos Nakai is perhaps the world’s premier Native American artist. He serves as an effective ambassador in reaching new concert audiences, consistently drawing capacity houses. Nakai is a seven-time Grammy Award nominee. In 2005, he collaborated with Keola Beamer on the release _Our Beloved Land_. Listen to Carlos perform [“Sentient Beings”](http://mauiarts.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=QvsiXAAMAAEAAAHTAAUNCw) with Nawang Khechog.**

**Peter Kater is a pianist/composer who has received six Grammy Award nominations. He has written music for well over 100 television and film productions and on and off-Broadway dramatic plays and is a recipient of the prestigious Environmental Leadership Award from the United Nations.** **Watch Peter perform [“Spirit”](http://mauiarts.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=QvsiXAAMAAEAAAT-AAUNCw) live in concert.**

## Topics

**Categories:** [Environment](https://nko.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/category/environment.md)

**Tags:** [concert](https://nko.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/post_tag/concert.md), [Maui](https://nko.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/post_tag/maui.md), [music](https://nko.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/post_tag/music.md), [Nawang Khechog](https://nko.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/post_tag/nawang-khechog.md), [Peter Kater](https://nko.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/post_tag/peter-kater.md), [R. Carlos Nakai](https://nko.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/post_tag/r-carlos-nakai.md)