Sarah jane Keith is a life long student of music with 14 years of professional training in classical and, more recently jazz, voice, 6 years teaching voice to others, and is a 10 year veteran performer in venues across the country. Staying true to her desire to be a well rounded musician, she has also played piano for most of her life and has been strumming guitar for the past 4 years.
Sarah jane earned a B.A. in Music, with a concentration in Music Therapy from California State University- Northridge in 2008, and an A.A. in Music with honors from Santa Barbara City College in 2004. While at school, she concentrated on Music Therapy and gained valuable field work experience working with special needs populations, including kids and adults with autism, mental retardation, and cerebral palsy, as well as older adults with Alzheimer’s and Hospice patients.
Her eclectic performance experience includes appearances at Carnegie Hall in NYC with the New England Symphonic Ensemble, Disney Concert Hall in LA with Grammy Winner, Diane Reeves, and the LA Philharmonic, Johnny Depp’s Viper Room in Hollywood as a solo singer/ songwriter, and a featured songwriter in the Frank Brown International Songwriting Festival.___________________________________________________
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A chamelon of styles, what is heard here is just a sampling of what i sing. Jazz and blues, funk and soul, folk and country, complete improvisational whatevers... musical theater and classical opera. I usually define my sound as
J A Z Z Y
B L U E S Y
SOUTHERN
S O U L
Although recently there's been more indie folky sounds coming through in as well!
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Over the years i have sat in with many bands and have had the honor of playing with a wide variety of musicians including:
Dianne Reeves Quartet (Grammy Award Winner)
LA Philharmonic Orchestra
Terence Blanchard
Billy Childs
Lee Oskar from WAR
Rob Wasserman- formerly of Bob Weir's RatDog
DJ Logic
Brett Dennen
ALO, Animal Liberation Orchestra
Zach Gill- ALO and Jack Johnson's band
Dan Lebowitz- ALO
Steve Adams- ALO
Dave Brogan- ALO
Particle
Steve Molitz- Particle and Phil Lesh and friends
Trevor Garrod- Tea Leaf Green
Scott Goodwin- Flowmotion
Rob Covacevich- Delta Nove
Viking- Delta Nove
Michelle Shocked
Cabaret Diosa
The Greyhounds
Rebecca Kleinmann
The Big Wu
and on and on.....
I have also been fortunate enough to play on some amazing stages, including...
Carnegie Hall in NYC
Disney Concert Hall in LA
Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh, NC
Johnny Depp's Viper Room in Hollywood
Paradise Rock Club in Boston
Iron Horse in Northhampton, MA
The Boom Boom Room in San Fransisco
Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland
SoHo Music Club in Santa Barbara
High Sierra Music Festival main stage in Quincy, CA
Xingolati Groove Cruise of the Pacific
and my top three favorite beach dives...
Ivan's Stress Free Bar, Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands
The Beach Bar on St John, US Virgin Islands
& Flora-Bama on the line between Florida and Alabama
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