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| Berklee's Women Musicians Network Concert March 12 Female Berklee students from countries around the world - including Scotland, Japan, the U.S., Turkey, and Hungary - will showcase their formidable songwriting, arranging, performing, and producing skills at the 12th annual Berklee Women Musicians Network (WMN) concert, Thursday, March 12. The show features 12 exciting and diverse acts across a wide spectrum of genres, with jazz, world, Celtic, Latin, pop, rock, and r&b all represented. This year's concert features a special guest duo: renowned vocalist and Berklee professor Mili Bermejo and bassist Dan Greenspan. WMN also welcomes back high-energy world beat band Zili Misik. Zili's Kera Washington, who teaches the Yanvalou Drum and Dance Ensemble at Wellesley College, will collaborate with students from Berklee to form an extended ensemble comprised of students from both colleges that will share the stage with the group. Women Musicians Network is $10, all ages, and begins at 8:15 p.m., at the Berklee Performance Center, located at 136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA. Please call 617-747-2261 or visit www.berkleebpc.com for more information. The concert shines a spotlight on female musicians, bandleaders, composers, and sound engineers, but not to the exclusion of men. Says associate professor Lucy Holstedt, "If a woman is leading a band that also has guys, terrific. This show is about inclusion. The bottom line is great music." WMN, under the direction of Holstedt and voice instructor Christiane Karam, is the only annual concert at the Berklee Performance Center presented by a student club. In addition to Bermejo and Zili, performers include Mariko Awada, The Folk Arts Quartet, Kana Dehara, Maureen McMullen, Julgi Kang and Rika Ikeda, Liz Barak, Leah Gough-Cooper, Ann Driscoll, Aslihan Niksarli, and Kata Kozma. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Jazz News :: home page |