Released on: September 6, 2007, 1:36 pm

Press Release Author: imajinnWEST

Industry: Entertainment

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

Press Release Body: On Wednesday September 12, 2007, Marcia Miget of Miraflores
Music School will perform the second in a series of lunchtime concerts on the lawn
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 second 'Friend' in Marcia's series is San Francisco-based Kash Killion, a
visionary cellist, bassist, vocalist, and composer who stretches the boundaries of
stringed instruments. Kash began his professional musical career at age ten drawn
first to clarinet, then voice, flute, electric guitar and electric bass. Born in the
very fertile music scene in and around East St. Louis, Alton, Illinois (Miles
Davis' home town) the cellist, bassist, vocalist, and composer Killion has played
extensively in avant garde circles with such icons as Cecil Taylor, John Zorn,
Julius Hemphill, Reggie Workman, Sun Ra, Butch Morris and George Lewis. As well as
being an integral member of Sun Ra's Arkestra His performance history includes
Donald Byrd, George Cables, Billy Higgins, Reggie Workman, dance troupes and poets
including Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Quincy Troupe, Shirley Le Flore and Jessica
Hagdorm. A consummate session musician finishing a film score with Tom Waits last
year, he also studied with the great Indian musicians, Ali Akbar Khan and master
Sultan Khan learning an assortment of Middle Eastern stringed instruments such as,
serengi, ditruba and esraj. His latest project, 'Lost Legacy of the Cello', is
currently available through kkillion.com. Kash states, "I hear the cello as a bass,
a violin, a guitar, a saxophone, and a piano, and strive to put the instruments in
unusual situations, play any style of music and make it sound 'authentic'. My focus
is to create something unique."
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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