A member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho, nineteen-year-old Hovia Edwards has been playing the Native American Flute since she was three years old. Her father Herman Edwards, himself a flute player, flute-maker, recording artist and performer, taught her to play. She has also benefited from the mentorship of international performer Robert "Tree" Cody. Edwards has performed as a soloist at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in Arizona, and with flute circles at powwows and gatherings throughout Indian Country. Edwards's flute music was used in a documentary film for the Shoshone Bannock Tribes (1998) and for the documentary Expedition: North America (1999). Edwards is the youngest Native American Indian female recording artist. Her CD is available through Canyon Records Productions in Phoenix, Arizona. She plays her own compositions as well as traditional songs. She has been nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Traditional Folk Album, an Independent recording companies' INDE Award, a Canadian Aboriginal Music Award, and also a Native American Music Award. She was a judge for the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards held in Toronto in 2000. When she is not playing the flute, Edwards dances in four traditional troupes the Intertribal Dance Troupe, Spirit in the Sky, the First Nation Dance Company, and Native Trails Troupe.