Event Info
You can go home again. The occasional concert series and event happening Col. MaCaw's Magical Cure-All was founded by Maxima Kahn and Randy McKean in Grass Valley, CA in the Spring of 2010 to showcase cutting edge music, art, dance, and spoken word. After a many-year hiatus, Kahn and McKean reunite to present their latest work--Kahn opening the evening with poetry, McKean following with music, and a promised collaborative piece to celebrate the reunion.
The Stinson Trio is the restless electric improvising union of drummer Tim Bulkley, guitarist David Dvorin, and reeds player Randy McKean. Using drum and cymbal, amps and effects, high and low saxes/clarinets, they fashion instant jigsaw superstructures from composite layers of sound and rhythm.
The Stinson project came about after trombonist and fellow Flounder band member Cliff Childers’ unexpected death in 2023, which had a profound impact on the remaining members Bulkley, Dvorin, and McKean. Cancelling all upcoming engagements, they entered a period of soul-searching and reflection, ultimately spending a long weekend playing and recording in a cabin located in Marin County’s seaside community of Stinson Beach. The result is their collection Stinson, a creative meditation on folding grief into the joy of communion and connection. They create a world of eclectic improvisation, spontaneous composition, and thoughtful rumination, one in which clinks and clanks become swirls and sustenance, thud and bluster become howl and lament. Through the act of making music, the three reaffirm their collective bond, which shines and fuels their debut release.
Of the work of poet/musician/dancer/teacher Maxima Kahn, acclaimed author Annie Finch says "Distinctive, honed, vulnerable, musical, courageous, honest, Maxima Kahn’s poems are fully ripened, fully considered—each one ready to drop richly into the hand like a subtly contoured fruit. Taste them.”
Kahn’s work has been featured in numerous literary journals, including The Louisville Review, Los Angeles Review, Wisconsin Review, Euphony, Sweet, Poem, and many others, and on popular blogs such as The Creative Penn, Tiny Buddha, Positively Positive, and The Startup. She is also a popular teacher, offering workshops in poetry, creative writing, The Artist’s Way, and others, as well as working one-on-one with artists of all kinds, helping them to unleash their creativity, hone their gifts, and realize their creative dreams. Formerly an instructor at the University of California, Davis Extension, she has taught privately since 2004 through Brilliant Playground, which she founded.