Jazz Appreciation Month: Mimi Fox & Greta Matassa

On Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 7 PM, the Museum of Making Music welcomes acclaimed jazz guitarist Mimi Fox with vocalist Greta Matassa for an evening of inspired music.

This event is presenting in conjunction with Jazz Appreciation Month, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History annual monthly commemoration of jazz as an original American art form.

Since 2001, Jazz Appreciation Month has paid tribute to jazz as both a living and as a historic music. Schools, organizations, and other institutions celebrate JAM with events ranging from concerts to educational programs.

Tickets to this event are: $20 for general seating; $25 for premium seating. 

For tickets or information, please call (760) 304-5844 or visit http://www.museumofmakingmusic.org/events/

MIMI FOX

Internationally renowned guitarist/composer/recording artist Mimi Fox has been named a winner in 6 consecutive Downbeat Magazine international critic's polls and has been recognized by writers and colleagues alike as one of the most eloquent jazz guitarists on today's scene. In one of many feature stories, Guitar Player Magazine hailed Mimi as "a prodigious talent who has not only mastered the traditional forms but has managed to reinvigorate them."

Mimi has performed/recorded with some of jazz's most commanding players, including fellow guitarists Charlie Byrd, Stanley Jordan, Charlie Hunter, and Mundell Lowe, Grammy-nominated saxophonists Branford Marsalis, David Sanchez and Houston Person and the late Don Lanphere, vocalists Abbey Lincoln, Diana Krall, Kevin Mahogany and Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer), B3 organ masters Joey DeFrancesco, Barbara Denerlein and Dr. Lonnie Smith, and powerhouse drummer Terri Lyne Carrington. She has also performed outside of the jazz world with legends Stevie Wonder and John Sebastian and with Patty Larkin's Vanguard Records-produced La Guitara project.