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Marcia Miget to Perform at Great American Music Hall with Voices of Latin Rock

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On Wednesday October 29, 2008 at 8 pm North Bay saxophonist Marcia Miget will perform with the Voices of Latin Rock, which includes Bay Area legends Abel Sanchez, Jorge Santana, Gabriel Manzo, Mic Gillette, Bill Ortiz at the Great American Music Hall at 859 O'Farrell Street in San Francisco.

In Spring of 2007 multi-instrumentalist, educator, composer and producer Miget was invited by guitarist and VOLR coordinator Abel Sanchez to perform with the Voices of Latin Rock at Arizona’s Cesar Chavez Day Celebration. It’s been a mutual admiration society with Marcia performing with the musicians ever since. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Marcia has most recently performed with the Voices of Latin Rock at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater (to 3 standing ovations) and at Yoshi’s (SF) with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra. 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 All-Star 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.

About the Voices of Latin Rock - This band represents the artists, musicians, and seasoned players who were responsible for creating this sound known today as Latin Rock! Hand picked and selected from the best of the best, they not only were at the roots of this sound, but also are the players who have been representing this sound throughout the world for over four decades. In the 1970s, Santana and Malo roared out of San Francisco’s Mission District barrio with a hot new sound, combining burning acid guitar wedded to a base of boiling Latin percussion. Their recordings are hailed as pioneering classics of the new sound known as ‘Latin rock’.

Santana spearheaded a cultural wave, which represented a totally new art form known as Latin Rock. At one stage Santana were the biggest selling act in the world, outselling even The Beatles. Other Mission based acts such as Malo, Azteca, Dakila, Sapo and Abel & the Prophets also emerged out of that first wave. It was this same talent pool, which fed the ranks of Sly & The Family Stone, Graham Central Station, Tower of Power, Cold Blood and many others. The roster of the band includes members who have played with, or currently play with, bands like Malo, Santana, Sapo, Abel & the Prophets, Azteca, and countless others.

Their flexibility and capability allows this band to bring shows featuring many star players and guests from other world known acts. In recent shows the Voices of Latin Rock have featured guest appearances by members of other famous bands such as Marcos Reyes from War, Lydia Pense from Cold Blood, Fred Sanchez & Bobby Espinosa from El Chicano, Lenny Williams and Mic Gillete from Tower of Power, Booker T from the MGs, Jackie Greene, Greg Errico from Sly & the Family Stone and the list goes on. Get the picture?

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