Berklee Women Musicians Network Concert March 15, 2007

The Women Musicians Network concert is Thursday, March 15, at the Berklee Performance Center, located at 136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA. The concert is $5 and begins at 8:15 p.m. Please call 617-747-2261 or visit www.berkleebpc.com for more information.

Berklee's 10th Annual Women Musicians Network concert, a highlight of the college’s women in music celebration, represents a significant milestone for Berklee women. This year’s program features 12 distinctive acts performing songs in a wide range of musical styles composed, arranged, and directed by more than 50 women students and guest alumae from around the world. This unforgettable, and often unclassifiable, concert presents diversity at its best, with a mix of different styles and approaches - everything from fusion jazz and Afro-pop, to hard-driving political rock and Latin folk. In this concert women shine in traditionally non-female roles, on and off the stage, as producers, bandleaders, drummers, bass players, sound engineers, and more.

This landmark show is the only annual concert at the Berklee Performance Center presented by a student club. The varied music will include original songs by Berklee students Yuko Yamamura, Emily Greene, Hanna Kloetzer, Stephanie Johnson, Manami Morita, Mary Elizabeth Lobb, Emily Shackelton, Chesca Santos, Bronwyn Bird, Jenna Hardy, and Lisa Fazenbaker; faculty advisor Lucy Holstedt; a new arrangement of a traditional Japanese song by student Keiko Ueda; and a traditional Haitian song set to new original composition by the group Zili Misik, featuring students and alumnae.

Lending their considerable talents to the evening will be alumnae faculty members, trumpeter Christine Fawson, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, pianist Holstedt, and vocalist Diane Richardson; and alumnae, guitarist Lexi Havlin, saxophonist Joy Roster, drummer Jobeth Umali, and sound engineer Stephanie Pranchart. In addition, this concert will serve as an introduction to players who will be performing in the ROCKRGRL Women of Valor Award evening honoring Fanny, at the Berklee Performance Center on April 20th.