...a visionary bandleader with a singularly expansive sound embracing a global array of influences. While she’s known for her percussive attack and roiling keyboard technique, Melford is also a deeply soulful player with a passion for Afro-Caribbean grooves, the blues and classical Hindustani music. — Andrew Gilbert, Berkleyside

Language of Dreams

Inspired by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano's Memory Of Fire trilogy, which explores the history of the Americas through the retelling of indigenous myths and accounts from the European colonizers, this interdisciplinary project features a book of original pieces that draw on a variety of cultural and musical traditions of the Americas as well as the talents of Ms. Melford's quintet Snowy Egret, a bi-lingual narrator, Sofia Rei, Los Angeles-based dancer/choreographer Oguri and Bay Area video artist David Szlasa.  The work will premiere on November 8 and 9, 2013 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.