Music Fans, On Sunday May 16th The Kareem Kandi World Orchestra will have pianist, composer, and educator Marina Albero as our guest for a live interview and performance. The interview and performance will be held in Tacoma's Museum of Glass theater and socially distanced seating is available. Museum admission fee is required to attend the performance and can be purchased at: www.museumofglass.org<http://www.museumofglass.org/?fbclid=IwAR2hH5yXOwKkHP9Etme0-EhOzrlC2gv_Msmm2zCg_qPz1JbAN1FUqCN5qFc> ( $17 adults, $5 children 12 and under ) Both the interview and performance will also be live streamed from these links: Facebook: www.facebook.com/kareem.kandi<https://www.facebook.com/kareem.kandi?__cft__[0]=AZWK9yDp3NBr5K9iqUEnvDfHSyXFZPNSid2pNXy8G7Jhir9tRTxiEkIph4rD7VD1wz5KwjhnM07I_nnZk6EykXFg5jq5m-hdROuWiKkWxOeVxLKsOLhnTKbsK-0c-BRV2q97CNBzGeFkbKyDEKfnmkft&__tn__=q> Youtube: www.tiny.cc/kkwo<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiny.cc%2Fkkwo%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2t5ciCn2kc9N-LjabgiK7205qAF_sw9ftbfD2TP17EWUk26aCPEB7ryT8&h=AT39z8G3XRNV9sVsW12ros2mb8zfJgiPNGOybH7Nfj2ig6CrpSg1eE6AaflKgFRQbrl3g0kVCc2qnxXM5Ufp2_T2TV7h4ujMWRmrF9p85vjSUSW4fbYbde4r0jnMy5GmZA&__tn__=q&c[0]=AT1j2nFFIBp5Z4pUb_K3E0MsnH1WOHTiaYBlfbwBs-w4HQbNCL3Ut7lnICCzDbAxDVF2G7JK_rZHC207DvD7NUBF6ymjzindA6u9tEXw6qPS_nI_YshkaVwdbXRtsMiaD_rEBYqZ-wVIUDOoTv5vl46xy0Pmho5P1rO5N3rdWM45pI7O> The livestreams are free to view. Interview: 1:00pm to 2:00pm Performance: 3pm to 4pm About our guest: Marina Albero started playing music on stages as a child with her family while they toured all around the world performig iberian traditional and early music always creating new shows. In her early years she studied in Barcelona’s Conservatory (El Bruc) and later in La Havana (ISA), where she finished her classical piano degree with the great professor and pianist Mrs. Teresa Junco. Marina has been researching in many different music styles such as: jazz, flamenco, early music, andalusie, latin (son & latin jazz)… She loves composing and improvising with a wide personal language carved by her colorful background. She has played and recorded with several well known musicians and bands including L’Arpeggiata, Chano Dominguez, Pepe Habichuela, La Folata, Mariona Sagarra, Barbarito Torres, Llibert Fortuny, Glen Velez, Lori Cotler, Carlos Saura and Ars Longa. Since September 2014, she enjoys living in Seattle with her musical family and has added to the local music scene and been well received by her fellow musicians as well as the listeners and the media. Since moving to Seattle in 2015, Marina has been piano chair at Teatro Zinzanni in several shows and has been invited to present her music at the Ballard Jazz Festival, Earshot Jazz Festival and KNKX live studios and Jazz Northwest. The Marina Albero Project (since 2016) features some of the finest musicians like Hans Teuber, Evan Flory-Barnes, D’Vonne Lewis, Jeff Busch, Jeff Johnson, among others. In 2018, she was awarded with the Golden Ear Award for Emergent Artist and in 2019 she was the recipient of two Golden Ear Awards: best instrumentalist and best record of the year (self release: “A life Soundtrack”).