St. San Rafael, CA. (Top 40 Charts/ Miraflores Academie) - 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.
