Michael Andrew Doherty is a musicker of shakuhachi, duduk and percussion, a composer ink painter, and jinashi shakuhachi craftsman. He works from his studio named Blue Cloud Mountain, located on the side of a mountain near Palmer Lake, Colorado.  He also writes essays, and is a published poet. 

You will find both shakuhachi, information concerning lessons and ink/brush paintings for sale on this site, inspired by years of meditation and contemplation, shakuhachi/honkyoku experience and investigation into silence and sound.  There is also poetry to be discovered.

May you be well, happy and peaceful.