For more info about Millicent's new CD visit www.myspace.com/millicentral
Millicent Cummings is a twenty-five year practitioner and promoter of the Arts, award winning singer, songwriter and performer, multi-media visual fine artist, producer, teacher, activist, Renaissance woman. Born in 1965...raised in Utah, Oregon, Washington and Connecticut...educated at Cornish Institute of the Arts in Seattle and Parsons School of Design in New York City graduating with a Bachelors in Fine Art...traveled to India, Europe, Mexico, Canada, Hawaii and most states of the Mainland US...lived in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Pennsylvania, Nantucket, Key West, Arizona, Maui, Big Island, Molokai, Kaua'i...settled on Oahu, HI. She has opened for or played along side artists such as Kenny Loggins, Ferron, Liko Martin, John Cruz, Makana, Cindy Combs and others. She is a self taught musician having created and learned many different tunings lending a highly original dynamic to her accomplished picking styles and songwriting abilities. Cummings has written well over 400 songs, produced scores of musical events and happenings, released two CD's of her original work on her own label and just released a third last June called 'Altar Native'. She has been involved as an actress in the theater, improv comedy and film and was also a host of her own radio program called 'Kaua'i Live” on KKCR. Millicent has shown her visual work in both group and one-woman exhibition across the country, was founder and curator of her own gallery, Gallery M on Kaua'i and has taught both music and art in numerous different contexts from the YWCA to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Her work is as diverse as the life she has led...hard to confine...but all of it no matter the media, is intended to inspire the remembrance of human dignity and divinity, creative aspiration and celebration and all possible forms of Love as she feels the arts are indeed a vital link to both individual and collective well-being. Aloha!
(Millicent played all these characters in one night at Grinds on Kaua'i, 2003)
"Dakine" performed solo at the Kaua'i Music Festival 2007
Jammin' with Stephen Inglis, Jon Hawes and Steve Howells at Anna Banana's April, 2007
Millicent with a few pieces of her work in her Gallery, Gallery M, Hanapepe, HI 2004
Influences
the musicians, artists, saints, lovers and teachers of all cultures and times far beyond the reaches of our mere his story who understood something about Love...and all the good people I have ever known and had the pleasure of jamming with.
Sounds Like
Sounds more like Millicent Cummings than anybody else I know,
but the most common comparisons are Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco and Melissa Etheridge.
Millicent...the Musician
Millicent...the Artist
Millicent...the Actress
Millicent...the Musician
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Glitter Graphics & Comments Aloha Millicent, your voice is realy great. I love your songs. Wishing you a great week, warm regards, Nora (Lei of Emeralds)
Aloha Millicent...what a treat to listen to your colorful songs at Wards Rafters last weekend...hope our paths cross again while I'm here in the islands!
CD Release Concert and Part at Wards Rafters from 7 to 9 p.m.
Millicent Cummings accompanied by Rick Smith, Lisa Gomes, Rogerio Araujo, Greg Martin and Steve Bazo
Musician, artist and soon to be mother, Millicent Cummings is giving birth to a new CD this month called Altar Native. Jerry Santos says of this concept album culminating six years of songwriting during her travels to each of the eight major Hawaiian Islands; "Millicent Cummings is the most exciting new voice to come from the Islands in years. Her songs are profound and her vocals are fabulous". Ledward Kaapana says, "Awesome, Awesome". Makana is quoted by saying, "A diverse and inspired contemporary original unique to Hawaii and the world".
Here are two articles about Altar Native published yesterday
Mahalo for the add, the friendship & yr compliment. You are also blessed from Above with the musical talents you have. Let's share and spread and keep the music alive. Take care and God bless you. Greetz from Amsterdam Holland. -Ananias
Mahalo iä 'oe i ka ho'ohui 'ia o ko mäkou inoa i käu papa inoa hoa aloha ma Ka'uWahi. Mahalo for your support in the perpetuation and revitalization of the Hawaiian language by adding the online students of APL to your MySpace friends. Nä Haumäma o 'Aha Pünana Leo are a group of students from all over the world that are coming together to learn the Hawaiian language online! E ola ka 'ölelo Hawai'i! Mahalo nui loa!
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