Mill Valley Artist, Singer-Songwriter Kimrea celebrates the start of her 70th year on the planet with a Tribute to Joni Mitchell featuring Kimrea’s band “Dreamdogs” and special guest Singer-Songwriter Joyce Grant, the Great Grand Niece of Scott Joplin.

Together they will perform many of Joni’s most iconic hits along with original songs written by Joyce Grant and selections from Kimrea’s nine recorded albums of her original music.

The Dreamdogs: 
Joe Lococo – Lead Guitar & Vocals
Grant Ewald – Keyboards, Bass & Vocals
Gerry Kennet – Drums, Vocals, Harmonica and Whistling.

“Joni Mitchell was one of my early inspirations.  As a young girl who wrote poetry all the time, discovering her,  I saw music as the way for poetry to be heard and began to learn to sing and play guitar.  As a poet, for me, she was right up there with Bob Dylan.  Her 5-octave vocal range was astounding.   I aspired to be able to sing her songs and added many to my repertoire along the way.  57 years later, I must say, I am very excited to do this show.”
– Kimrea

ABOUT THE MUSICIANS

KIMREA

Kimrea is a prolific songwriter and a gifted natural singer.  She has been performing her music for over 50 years and is also a painter and a sculpter.  Born in Northern Michigan, she has been a resident of Mill Valley for over 40 years. 

JOYCE GRANT

Joyce Grant, A lady we all should hear sing, determined at an early age that she was going to be a singer.  Her unique shows consist of a blend of jazz, blues, country western, rhythm and blues, and funk. Her vocal interpretations range from sensitive to powerful to cheeky over a broad spectrum of charts.  

Grant has been singing jazz in Bay Area venues for over 20 years. She has participated in the West Coast Ragtime Festival for several years.  City Swing started a new chapter in 2007 with jazz singer Joyce Grant.  She is the lead vocalist for City Swing, an 18 piece big band. 

 From the start, Grant spent her elementary and high school days performing in choir and musical theater.  She is the great-great-niece of famed ragtime composer Scott Joplin and has written lyrics to four of his songs.  Born in Texarkana, the town where Scott Joplin was raised, Grant moved to Oakland as a child where she started singing with the North Oakland Baptist Church youth choir. Since that time, she has earned the respect of singers and musicians alike performing professionally in San Francisco, the East Bay, Walnut Creek, Napa Valley and beyond.