Released on: October 13, 2008, 7:41 am

Press Release Author: imajinnWEST

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: Miraflores Academie's Miget Continues Concert Series

Press Release Body: On Wednesday October 15, 2008, from noon to 1:30 Marcia Miget
of Miraflores Academie will perform the popular lunchtime concert series on the
patio of the First Presbyterian Church, corner of 5th and 'E' Streets, San Rafael.
This week will see the return of Marin Academy's Central Iowa Blues Society Hall of
Famer, Dartanyan Brown.
Born into a musical family where both parents studied and performed music genres
from religious to Jazz to conservatory, Jazz bible Downbeat Magazine noted him as
"'one of the few electric bassists in jazz exploring the melodic possibilities of
his axe no less inspiring in 1974'". Studying the fundamentals of the bass violin
with the esteemed cellist John Ehrlich and legendary jazz bassist Richard Davis,
'Dart's 30-year career has evidenced recording and performing opportunities with an
incredible variety of musicians, dancers, performance and new media artists. The
list includes Beat-era original David Meltzer, trumpeter Bill Chase, Grover
Washington, Jr., Clark Terry, Frank Foster, Kenny Barron, Barry Finnerty, Marcia
Miget, Mark Levine, Teja Bell, Steven Kindler, Susanne Ciani, Todd Rundgren,
internationally acclaimed dancer/choreograper Bill T. Jones, the late Timothy Leary,
California's Poet Laureate Al Young and Quincy Troupe, and Hip Hop/Slam artist
Bamuthi. Continuing to blend the arts, education and entrepreneurial spirit into a
new paradigm for how, when and why we educate our children, 2007 marks a new chapter
for Dartanyan offering educational initiatives designed for middle- and secondary
school-aged students as well of unveiling previously unreleased recordings from
concerts, interviews, seminars and digital media productions. Currently in
production are a set of live concert recordings by Ron Dewitte, Big Mike Edwards,
Sam Salomone, Craig Horner, son Jaimeo Brown and brother Don Brown under the
nameplate, the Iowa Blues All-Stars.
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Marcia has most recently
appeared at Yoshi's with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra and
performed with the Voices of Latin Rock at Yountville's Lincoln Theater. With skills
that cross multiple genres she's also appeared with Wayne Wallace's Rhythm and
Rhyme, the Northern California Lighthouse Singers 25th Anniversary conducted by
Helen Stevens and Stephen Roberts and the Montclair Women's Big Band. She's played
at Monterey, Stern Grove, Sonoma, Fillmore Jazz Festivals and the International
Association of Jazz Educators' Conventions with the African American Jazz Caucus
AllStar Big Band (in 2004 was the Featured Artist with the Historically Black
Colleges' University Allstar Band). Her last project-as-producer was Passing the
Baton: the Miget-Redd Session Part 1 with legendary Bebop pianist, Freddy Redd. Her
performance pedigree includes multiple appearances with Carlos Santana, and such
notables as Larry Ridley, Jimmy Cobb, Buddy Baker, Kenny Barron, Orestes Vilato,
Frank Foster, Pete Escovedo, Donald Byrd, Tyrone Hill of Sun Ra's Arkestra, Freddy
Redd, Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, Carl Perazzo, Phish, Wayne
Wallace, John Santos, Babatunde Lea, Abel Sanchez, Jorge Santana and Prophet, Jaimeo
Brown and Dartanyan Brown. Her past band has opened for Chick Corea, Kenny Loggins,
Phoebe Snow and performed on MTV with Rickie Lee Jones. She has been the featured
performer with the James Cleveland Choir at the Gospel Music Workshop of America,
and the Toronto International Association of Jazz Educators' Convention.
Based in the Bay Area Miraflores Academie, a California 501(c3), is a preeminent
private performance group that has been the foundation for some of Marin's best
musical talent since 1988, as current and graduated students, e.g. James
Perdelwitz, Joelle Parrett, Jeff Derby, Jaimeo Brown, Alex Baky, J.J.Byars, Lou
Wiskus, Robby Marshall, Isabella Quereshi, Zach Gunsell, Dan Birch, Bram Kincheloe,
Elecia Strauss, Seth Paris, Kristina Hoffman, Andrew Capra and Salvador Santana,
evidence. These graduates, and many more, were selected for prestigious musical
performance groups like the International Monterey High School All-star Jazz Band,
California High School All-State Band, California High School All-State Concert
Band, the San Francisco Jazz High School Allstars and attend a number of
institutions such as Oberlin College, Sarah Lawrence, Berklee School of Music, the
New School to Cal Arts, Manhattan School, NYU, USC and UCLA or performing
professionally with such names as Bill Watrus, Mingus Big Band, and Greg Tardy. The
array of award-winning students from Miraflores have performed in such events as
the Duke Ellington Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, the International Association
of Jazz Educators' Convention, San Jose Jazz Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival,
San Rafael's Italian Street Painting Festival, et al.
You can know more about Miraflores Academie at www.miracademie.org or hear more of
Marcia's music at www.mee-j.com. Look for Miget and listen with your Heart.

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