California free-spirit, SGI
                                    Buddhist, goes to the Andes and
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Lynette
                                        Yetter, as Lucy, plays panpipes
                                        on location in Bolivia, filming
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Lynette Yetter
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California Musician's Novel on Bolivia Now Available in Paperback.
Lucy Plays Panpipes for Peace, by Lynette Yetter, now available at local and online bookstores.

La Paz, Bolivia -- Lynette Yetter's (panpipe player on Academy Award nominated Recycled Life) novel, "Lucy Plays Panpipes for Peace," is now available in paperback. Readers journey along with Lucy, a panpipe playing SGI Buddhist, as she discovers the secrets to living an authentic life in a daring adventure in Peru and Bolivia. The illustrated paperback is now distributed through Ingram distribution to local and online booksellers in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.. When you buy directly from the author on http://musicandes.com/books -- $5 from each of the first 100 books sold will be donated to the Potters for Peace water filter project for relief efforts in Haiti and the Andes.

The main character of the novel, Lucy, is a California free-spirit and SGI Buddhist. She follows the sound of the panpipes to the Andes, seeking to find or create the ideal society of which the panpipes sing. In Peru and Bolivia she participates in indigenous ceremonies, chews the sacred coca leaf, and encounters U.S. supported human rights abuses that lead her to a life or death decision.

Like Lucy, the author Lynette Yetter was born in Highland Park, California with mixed European and Native American ancestry and is an SGI Buddhist. In Peru and Bolivia, indigenous musicians invite her to perform with them in traditional ceremonies and festivals, based on hearing her play.

According to Northeast Intune Magazine, "If you can imagine what air, water, fire, and earth sound like in music notes, then you can imagine what Lynette Yetter’s songs sound like. ... spiritual in nature and have a worldly richness ... makes humans one with nature through the vibrations echoing in the bamboo reeds ... Her music gives nature its own expressive sound."

One song she turned into an award winning music video - Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. The video features local folks from Oruro, Bolivia. The video plays regularly on Bolivian TV stations. The video shot up to #1 on a viewer requested television playlist. Lynette suspects that who are doing the requesting are locals wanting to see themselves on TV. Some of these locals, and others, are fictionalized in her novel, telling their own stories of ancestral spiritual wisdom, contraband running and losing loved ones in U.S.-supported assassinations.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT LUCY PLAYS PANPIPES FOR PEACE

“I just finished ‘Lucy’ and am impressed. It is so easy to read that quite a few pages go by before I notice I’ve been reading awhile. The greatest strength of the book is its forthright, straightforward language and purpose. I enjoyed it all, and certainly hope a paper edition goes strongly. I hope our personal endings work as well as you propose for Lucy.”
- Lewis Ellingham, author of Poet be like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco renaissance, and The Birds and other poems
 
“I have often thought about you and your genuine love for our music and our people. In many respects, you are an inspiration to me! You walk the talk, and live in accordance with your beliefs.”
- Margarita B. Marín-Dale, Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies, American University, Washington, D.C.

"I spent all weekend with you, reading your book non-stop. I loved it. The power of music permits us to rise above our differences and harmonize relations between distant cultures. The story is very beautiful; the courage of Lucy, her way of confronting all obstacles with optimism - thanks to the (SGI) practice and the encouragement of Sensei (Ikeda) - and also the style and rhythm. I like your way of describing things. Thank you for having written a beautiful book that renews faith in life."
- Marie Christine Dauner, author of Le Lit Qui Lit, Association Paris-Musées 

You can find out more about Lynette Yetter's music, movies, books and art at www.musicandes.com.

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BIO


Lynette Yetter is a native Californian who followed the sound of the panpipes to the Andes. She transforms her experiences into literature and music of the earth to inspire people to follow their dreams.

According to Northeast Intune Magazine, "If you can imagine what air, water, fire, and earth sound like in music notes, then you can imagine what Lynette Yetter’s songs sound like. ... spiritual in nature and have a worldly richness ... makes humans one with nature through the vibrations echoing in the bamboo reeds ... Her music gives nature its own expressive sound."

One song she turned into an award winning music video - Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. The video features local folks from a town in Bolivia. The video plays regularly on TV stations there (and plays other places, too; even on YouTube). The video shot up to #1 on a viewer requested television playlist. Lynette suspects that who are doing the requesting are locals wanting to see themselves (or their family or friends) on TV.

Lynette has recorded two CDs. The first, "Music of the Andes and More...," she self-produced in Los Angeles. "Inka Spirit" Lynette recorded on the Bolivian label, Ayni Records. Her music appeared on the popular Southern California KTLA TV show, "Life and Times." In Peru, the national television show, "A Mano," used her songs in a soundtrack. Up north in Canada, her music plays in an award winning educational CD. Lynette Yetter played panpipes on the opening title credits of the Academy Award Nominated Best Documentary, "Recycled Life." You can find her music, along with her debut novel, "Lucy Plays Panpipes for Peace," on www.musicandes.com.


Why I love the People of the Andes
People in the Andes (not all the people of course, but a whole lot more of the people than in the U.S. where I was born) live with a huge awareness of our interconnection with each other, the Earth and the infinite. This awareness permeates everything the people do, every interaction with everyone and with everything. This is often called, "the Andean cosmo-vision". The door to this cosmo-vision flung open for me the very first time I heard people performing the music of the Andes one sunny day by the water's edge at Fisherman's Warf in San Francisco in 1993.
The sounds of these unique instruments, played by indigenous people of the land who have never forgotten what it is like to live in harmony with the earth, resonated deeply in my soul and compelled me to learn everything I could about the people who make this powerful music. I learned to play some of the instruments, to speak two of the languages and became a member of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Now I live in the Andes, making music and sharing rituals as well as daily life with new friends in Bolvia and Peru. These treasures of the heart I then share with friends around the world, such as you. If you are unable to travel to the Andes and spend a lot of time getting to know the people you can vicariously visit through my music CDs, art, and writings. In this way I act as a bridge, or a door, between cultures and people who may never have the chance to meet and get to know one another in any other way.