Released on: September 13, 2007, 11:21 am

Press Release Author: imajinnWEST

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: MIRAFLORES MUSIC'S MIGET TO PERFORM CONCERT SERIES


Press Release Body:
On Wednesday October 3, 2007, Marcia Miget of Miraflores Music School will perform
the fifth in a series of lunchtime concerts on the patio of the First Presbyterian
Church, corner of 5th and 'E' Streets, San Rafael. Each week from noon to 1:30 pm
Ms. Miget will perform with a local name musician or former student in jazz, Latin
or classical genres.
The latest 'Friend' in Marcia's series, Marin Academy's Music Director Bob Schleeter
is a thirty-year veteran of music performance, creation and education. A graduate of
Berklee College of Music Mr. Schleeter studied jazz with Hal Crook, Peter Sprague,
Chuck Wayne and Joe Pass. Co-founder of Marin-based jazz/soul/Latin group, The
Company She Keeps, Bob created an exciting, rhythm-based ensemble after successive
visits to Bahia, Brazil and Havana, Cuba. Guitarist, composer and arranger Bob's
composition credits include four "rock and soul" musicals produced throughout New
England and the West Coast. The Boston Globe called his co-creation, Sara's Jukebox,
\"'A hit parade of music...the songs are tantalizingly diverse, yet widely
appealing.'" Performing as a guitarist and sideman with an equally appealing and
diverse group of musicians, including The Drifters, Del Shannon and longer stints
with Shana Morrison as well as dozens of his own ensembles. Look for his music on
www.bigscore.net and www.thecompanyshekeeps.net.
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Marcia has most recently
performed with the Voices of Latin Rock at Arizona's Cesar Chavez Day Celebration.
With skills that cross multiple genres she's the only female saxophonist/flutist
with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, performing 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. A Member of the National Academy of Recording
Arts and Sciences 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; in a 2003 Jam Session Tribute to Oscar Peterson at the
Toronto International Association of Jazz Educators\' Convention.
Based in the Bay Area Miraflores Music School is a preeminent private school 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 hear more of Marcia's music at www.mee-j.com. Look for Miget and listen with
your Heart to Discovery.

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