West Coast Arts Foundation, founded in 1996 is a non profit, tax Exempt Corporation dedicated to the production of artistic projects. WCAF provides a community resource for adults and young artists from families and schools that cannot provide enrichment programs, i.e. film, video, the performing arts (theater, dance and music) workshops, concerts and rehearsal space for various community activities.
A percentage of WCAF’S funds are placed in its scholarship/apprentice reward program. Honorees are presented in concert and awarded a gift at the end of each fiscal year.
West Coast Arts Foundation has received support from: The Nevada, E. L. Wiegrand Foundation, Bank of America, Tiburon Branch, CitiBank San Rafael Branch, Channel 55 New York, The Marin Community Foundation, Larry and Laurie Klein, Richard J. Davis, The Fred Gillert Family Foundation and local businesses in our Community.
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MARGOT JONES Margot is a Director, Choreographer and Independent Filmmaker and a thirty year veteran of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and The Screen Actors Guild (SAG).
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GINI WILSON Contact Gini through her web site www.chamberjazz.com Gini Wilson, called The Duchess, is well known in San Francisco and the Bay Area as a first class jazz
pianist
and entertainer. Her new cabaret show, From Bach to Bebop, An Evening of Jazz and Wisecracks, met with
acclaim from audiences and critics alike. She is also known for concert erformances and has appeared in jazz
festivals including Jazz by the Bay; Jazz in Jackson Hole, Wyo. and the San Miguel de Allende International
Festival in Mexico. Her latest CD "Left Coast Local Time", duo piano and bass, introduces a new conception of
jazz which she calls Chamber Jazz. She can often be heard on NPR Radio
as house pianist for "West Coast Live",
where she is known for her irreverent sense of humor. Gini has
also acted as music director and performer at
clubs such as STARS San Francisco, Moose's, and One Market. Gini was also music director for the documentary
film "Encore for Ruby", produced by Margot
Jones and recently seen on PBS television stations nationwide. "(at STARS San Francisco) ... you'll get a dose of Gini's fantastic piano playing ... she has charm, a sense of humor, and also the technique of a classical pianist which
shines through ... What talent ! " JazzNow Magazine May 1999 |
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BUFFY FORD STEWART Buffy has a long list of credits that include her singing, dancing, acting, motion picture and television writing as
well as her poetry.
She began at an early age appearing in Summer stock in Sacramento as
well as numerous
productions at the Festival Theater in San Anselmo and the Sausalito Little Theater.
Her musical career spans
from her early days as a member of the Young Americans touring with Johnny Mathis. She has also sung with
Carole King, Janis Joplin, Andy Williams, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor,
John Denver as well as her husband of
thirty years, song writer John Stewart. |
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