Tom Mauchahty-Ware

Tom Mauchahty-Ware (March 21, 1949 – November 3, 2015^[1]) was a Kiowa/Comanche musician.^[1] He was a Southern Straight dancer and a member of the Kiowa O-Ho-Mah Lodge society.^[1]

Thomas Mauchahty-Ware II
Born	(1949-03-21)March 21, 1949
Died	November 3, 2015(2015-11-03) (aged 66)
Instruments	singing, drum, Native American flute, harmonica, guitar
Years active	1970s–2000s
Formerly of	Blues Nation

Early life

Thomas Ware was born on March 21, 1949, to Wilson Ware (Kiowa) and Pearl Pewo Ware (Kiowa/Comanche) in Oklahoma.^[1]

Career

As a musician, he drummed and played the Native American flute, harmonica, and blues guitar. He formed the band Blues Nation in 1990.^[1]

He was an accomplished American Indian dancer and regalia maker. He was a skilled visual artist: painting, sculpting, making flutes, bead working, and feather working.

He was a descendant of the famous Kiowa flutist, Belo Cozad, and made two commercial recordings, Flute Songs of the Kiowa and Comanche (1978) and The Traditional and Contemporary Indian Flute of Tom Mauchahty Ware (1983).^[2]

Films

• Songkeepers (1999, 48 min.). Directed by Bob Hercules and Bob Jackson. Produced by Dan King. Lake Forest, Illinois: America's Flute Productions. Five distinguished players of Native American flute - Tom Mauchahty-Ware, Sonny Nevaquaya (Comanche), R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo/Ute), Hawk Littlejohn, Kevin Locke (Standing Rock Lakota) – talk about their instrument and their songs and the role of the flute and its music in their tribes.^[3]