Miles and Karina are David Miles Keenan and Nova Karina Devonie.
Their music is the happy result of a 15 year collaboration.
Since their early days with cowgirl supergroup, Ranch Romance
with whom they recorded 3 CD's for Sugar Hill Records, they have
been writing and performing locally in their home town of Seattle.
They have shared the stage with such notables as EmmyLou Harris,
Bela Fleck, Bill Monroe, Alison Kraus, Tim O'Brien, Rodney Crowell
and David Grisman to name a few.
Miles plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and both sing while Karina's
instrument of choice is the accordion.
They like to call their music 'Mid-twentieth-century music',
Cartoon themes - Swing - 50' and 60's Country - Cowboy -
Bluegrass - Old time - Musette - Hot Club - 60's Orchestral Spy -
Bossa Nova - Word Jazz - all of these can be found on the duo's
two albums.
When not playing as M&K, they can be heard playing with Swing-a-billy
outfit Jo Miller & Her Burly Roughnecks - www.burlyroughnecks.com,
'all Buck Owens, all the time' band - The Buckaroosters - www.myspace.com/thebuckarooters,
alt-country band 'The Rolling Blackouts' - www.tombennettmusic.com,
Bluesy, R&B orchestra, Suicide Jack - www.myspace.com/suicidejackmusic,
bluegrass happening, The Downtown Mountain Boys - www.downtownmountainboys.com,
early 20th century Parisian minor waltz ensemble - Karina Musette Trio
Hi!To Miles and Karina**Welcome to my myspace**It is for people who love and enjoy listening to others sing or play beautiful music.I love your music you are the best. Thank you for being here your friend Reggie
Hey Karina-just mastering the cd this weekend. Will have your copy in a few weeks. YOU open up our song #2 with your awesome accordian. We just LOVE it! Thanks again for the track. Rough mix of it is on our myspace page. Looking forward to hearing you play together...with love, jen&dave
hi, cuties! we're goin' to be in the great northwest in august... what chew doin'? hope we get to see y'all! slim and i are thinking we might could get some gigs while in your part of the woods and stick around for strawberry festival....
hmm yeah i dont think ron and i have anything planned that weekend. except for a game sunday. ill look at the schedule and figure it out. haha nope not driving yet.
M&K - I can't get over how great the score to Prince Achmed is. I couldn't imagine anything more fitting. I'm trying to recruit all my Seattle friends to go! See you in a couple of weeks if not sooner :-)
Thanks fer bein' friends with us again after some foul agent of chaos deleted our Myspace page………..we're lokkin' forward to crossin' paths with ya in 2008!!...Boys of Greenwood Glen, a drinkin' band with an Irish problem!...........
