Welcome to the seventeenth annual

Native Rhythms Festival

November 14-16, 2025

coming to you live from

Wickham Park

Melbourne, Florida

brought to you by

The Indian River Flute Circle and Native Heritage Gathering, Inc. proudly present the seventeenth annual gathering of the Native Rhythms Festival. This three day festival during Native American Heritage Month honors the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americans through music, and especially the music of the Native American Flute.

Welcome to the cyberhome of the Native Rhythms Festival. All available information regarding our seventeenth annual festival will be available here. Please feel free to browse.

This website is a living entity that will grow throughout the process of planning this year’s festival to keep you informed with our latest information. Native Rhythms Festival has a presence in the Facebook community! Click here to join our fans and keep up with all announcements regarding this year’s festival.

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Background on This Year's Theme and Logo

Painted Raven's Annette Abbondanza, creator of this year's logo, introduces this year's theme and logo.

We invite you to help us get the word out about this year’s festival. Click here or on the poster image to the left to access and 8 1/2″ x 11″ PDF file containing our mini-poster (filesize: 407 KB). Feel free to make and distribute copies wherever you think they might be seen by anyone who could be interested in joining us in Wickham Park in Melbourne on November 14-16.

Our Diamond and Platinum Level Sponsors

Our 2025 sponsorship drive is now underway and we welcome all who wish to provide direct support for this year’s festival by becoming a Native Rhythms Festival sponsor. We offer a five level sponsorship program that puts Native Rhythms Festival sponsorship within the reach of almost all budgets. Those who participate at the highest levels, our Diamond and Platinum Sponsors, will be prominently featured here on our event homepage. Find all of our 2025 sponsors listed on our Sponsors Page.

Click here: (NRF-2025-SponsorLetter&Agreement) if you’d like to download our sponsor invitation letter describing our sponsorship program, and the agreement form to fill out, send in, and become a Native Rhythms Festival sponsor.

We are grateful to all of the organizations and individuals whose support makes this event possible, but we give a special recognition here on our homepage to our Diamond and Platinum Level Sponsors:

Diamond Level Sponsors

Susan Grandy & Tom Welch
Jacksonville, FL

Platinum Level Sponsors

Platinum Levels Sponsors coming…

2024 Headline Performers

These are our 2024 performers. Contracting with our 2025 performers is underway. Check back here , where we’ll announce this year’s performers as agreements are firmed up.