Melford has blossomed into such a wonderful presence, her predilection for songful melodic themes having lost some of its earlier sentimentality, yielding to an original intuition. — John Corbett, DownBeat

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.