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The Hazel MIller Band, with Miller and Rich Lamb,
bass, Dana Marsh, piano, Dave Camp, sax and
flute, and Brian Mikulich, drums will perform free
concerts at CMC in Rifle and Leadville April 24
and 25, respectively.
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Popular performer to appear in free concerts at
CMC.
By Mike McKibbin
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Mom’s advice paid off for Hazel Miller.
It led the now-popular singer to leave her
home as a young adult in Louisville, Ky., and
eventually travel the world, performing jazz,
gospel, blues and R&B.
“When I was 16, she saw me perform in a show
and said, ‘You’re good at this. Go, get out of
Louisville and see the world,’” Miller recalled.
“She wanted me to branch out. So I did.”
While she didn’t quite make it to her
destination of Los Angeles, California’s loss
was Colorado’s gain, as Miller made Denver
her home base for more than three decades.
Miller and her band will perform a free concert
at Colorado Mountain College’s Rifle campus
at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 24. This concert is
sponsored by Chevron, with lodging provided
by WPX Energy. An after-concert reception
will be provided by Grand River Health. Hazel
Miller and her band will perform in the Clough
Auditorium at the Rifle campus, 3695 Airport
Road.
They will also perform a free concert at the
Climax Molybdenum Leadership Center, 901
South Highway 24, at Colorado Mountain
College’s Leadville campus at 7 p.m. Saturday,
April 25. This concert is sponsored by
Colorado Mountain College ArtShare.
Meeting people highlights Miller’s travels
“Traveling is the best kind of education, too,”
Miller said. “You meet so many different
people at their levels. And one thing I always
see is how we’re all more alike than we are
different.”
The band has toured North America, Europe,
Asia, the Middle East and Central America and
has appeared in countless festivals, concerts
and fundraisers. Last winter, Miller toured the
U.S. with Big Head Todd and the Monsters,
marking the 19th year the two bands have
performed together.
The summer of 2014 featured festival
appearances in Grand Junction, Del Norte,
Pagosa Springs, Frisco, Breckenridge, Erie,
Boulder and Telluride, not to mention
Mississippi, New Mexico and Wyoming. The
band has appeared many times at the historic
Red Rocks Amphitheater as the headliner and
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as an opening act.
“I never get tired of traveling in Colorado,”
Miller said.
Adding to music that people know
The music Miller and her band plan to perform
will combine five different “jazz experiences,”
she said, including swing, bebop and smooth
jazz, along with the blues and gospel.
“We like to make the music enjoyable,” she
said. “We took a song written by Stevie Nicks
(of Fleetwood Mac), called ‘Dreams,’ and
added a smooth jazz tempo with a layer of
continental jazz feel. But people still recognize
the song, because it’s Fleetwood Mac.”
Miller said the band also put a “funky dance
beat” to Lee Ann Womack’s country hit, “I
Hope You Dance.”
“We think it’s all right to like every kind of
music because it all blends together in the
end,” she said. “It’s all music. We hope they like
it enough to get up and dance. If we don’t
move them, it’s very disappointing.”
Colorado audiences are usually quite active,
though.
“I think it’s that Western pioneer spirit, and
the fact that Colorado loves all kinds of music,”
she said. “It’s almost like they’re waiting for
you and they never let you down. So when
they jump up and dance, that’s our greatest
accomplishment.”
For more information about the Hazel Miller
Band in concert, call 970-947-8367. Find more
about the vocalist and her band at
hazelmiller.biz.
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