Autmun of 1993 
Bill Neal, Gary Lemos and Jon Sherman (monitoring the recording)
performing  under the oaks at Descanso Gardens, in La Canada Flintridge, CA,  through Jon's solar powered
sound system (not pictured).  The muisic from this recording was used in the audio cassette
"Songs From Turtle Island", with liner notes stating: This recording was made live under the oak trees at the
Descanso Botanical Gardens in La Canada, California, using the power of the sun.
It is one of the very first solar-powered recordings available anywhere, and the first (as far as we know)
Native recording using this process. The album is dedicated to our woman elders who have carried the healing spirit
and knowlege down through the generations - to the grandmothers and great grandmothers
who spread their wings over all of them, who remember the Original Instructions.

Solar powered Arroyo Seco concert, Summer of 1994

Bill Neal, Gary Lemos and Jon Sherman performing in concert, through a solar powered sound system on native American flutes and wooden recorders
at Gould Mesa Campground on a slab of concrete in the middle of the Arroyo Seco, above Pasadena, California.
Audience members were sitting up-creek of the "stage".

Group photo of the 1994 Arroyo Seco concert, flute players and audience.

Solar powered flute circle at Descanso Gardens, in La Canada Flintridge, CA, summer of 1994
left to right - Bill Neal, Henry Vasquez, "Ziggy" and Jon Sherman
empty chair was Gary Lemos (on a break).

Solar powered flute circle at Descanso Gardens,  in La Canada Flintridge, CA, July 2, 1995
left to right - Andy Torres (in white shirt holding an ocean drum)
Henry Vasquez (in maroon ribbon shirt), Tom Thompson (playing a transverse bamboo flute),
Gary Lemos (playing a Tarahumara drum) and Jon Sherman (playing a recorder)

During a break at a solar powered flute circle at Descanso Gardens,  in La Canada Flintridge, CA on Sept. 6, 1997
Jon Sherman on stage, unknown gentlemen examining a flute in front row.  Solar generator is seen to the left.