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(London.CityRegiions.com, November 22, 2012 ) Kent, England -- One-time San Francisco resident and celebrated cellist and vocalist Marika Hughes returned to the Bay Area to play a pair of concerts as part of the Women, Strings & Song musical program at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Nov. 16 and 17. Hughes, who currently resides in Brooklyn, hit the San Francisco music scene as part of the avant-chamber pop trio 2 Foot Yard, as well as the jazz-infused Quartet San Francisco and Balkan-funk group Charming Hostess. Although she has been living in New York for more than six years, maybe people still mistake her for being a Bay Area resident. "I was a straight-ahead classical player who never imagined I'd play anything but what was on a printed page,” Hughes said. “But, when I moved to San Francisco I met all these string players doing really exciting things." Other performers featured San Francisco bassist Lisa Mezzacappa and New York-based vocalist Fay Victor, along with singing group Parkington Sisters, a Cape Cod, Mass., foursome making their San Francisco debut. On Saturday, Cuban drummer-composer Dafnis Prieto, as part of the Proverb Trio (which features keyboardist Jason Lindner and rapper/vocalist Kokayi) and Sandy Perez y Su Lade, Afro-Cuban folkloric ensemble, performed. Hughes, who is the granddaughter of cellist Emanuel Feuermann, cut her teeth at an Upper West Side jazz club that her parents owned. She also worked for a time as a regular on "Sesame Street." She then went to New York and earned degrees from both Barnard College (political science) and Juilliard (cello performance), then returned to San Francisco, which she credits for expanding her musical horizons. "I learned how to be a working musician," Hughes said. "How to be somebody who people want to work with." Hughes recently released a pair of CDs in 2011, one called "Afterlife Music Radio: 11 New Pieces for Solo Cello," as well as "The Simplest Thing," which is her debut album featuring improvisation-laced, melodic songs. About Xpress CDs: Xpress CDs (http://www.xpresscds.co.uk/) offers professional CD and DVD replication and duplication services. They also offer a number of other services, including CD and DVD production, CD pressing, and package printing.
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