Comments for http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:24:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on 2007 Jazz Camp — The Mom Point of View by Boppin Cats -Jazz jam http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/2007-jazz-camp-the-mom-point-of-view/#comment-12 Boppin Cats -Jazz jam Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:24:48 +0000 http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/2007-jazz-camp-the-mom-point-of-view/#comment-12 [...] July 3, 2007 2:51 am Albuquerque Area Events Week of August 13 2007 » Albuquerque Expert R.. 2007 Jazz Camp — The Mom Point of View « Jazz Bass » Blog Archive » jazz bass June 15, 2007 10:34 pm Taos events through Sept. [...] [...] July 3, 2007 2:51 am Albuquerque Area Events Week of August 13 2007 » Albuquerque Expert R.. 2007 Jazz Camp — The Mom Point of View « Jazz Bass » Blog Archive » jazz bass June 15, 2007 10:34 pm Taos events through Sept. [...]

]]> Comment on The Monterey Jazz Festival Camp: Prelude by LeRoy Downs http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/the-monterey-jazz-festival-camp/#comment-11 LeRoy Downs Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:56:32 +0000 http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/the-monterey-jazz-festival-camp/#comment-11 Monterey Jazz Fest article on the Hydeus Kiatta Memorial Fund http://www.thejazzcat.net/blog/_archives/2007/7/2/3066737.html Monterey Jazz Fest article on the Hydeus Kiatta Memorial Fund

http://www.thejazzcat.net/blog/_archives/2007/7/2/3066737.html

]]> Comment on The First Day of Camp by LeRoy Downs http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/the-first-day-of-camp/#comment-10 LeRoy Downs Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:18:07 +0000 http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/the-first-day-of-camp/#comment-10 Thank you all so much for keeping the essence, energy and spirit of a beautiful angel alive through the music! Hydeus would be so very pleased and would not have it any other way. I will be in Monterey for the festival so I am sure that we will have the pleasure then. Until then keep spreading the gift that God gave you and use your voice to bring the worlds together! Peace, Love and Jazz Music! LeRoy Downs Thank you all so much for keeping the essence, energy and spirit of a beautiful angel alive through the music! Hydeus would be so very pleased and would not have it any other way. I will be in Monterey for the festival so I am sure that we will have the pleasure then.
Until then keep spreading the gift that God gave you and use your voice to bring the worlds together!

Peace, Love and Jazz Music!

LeRoy Downs

]]> Comment on Jazz Camp, Day Four…oops. by Diana Govan http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/jazz-camp-day-fouroops/#comment-8 Diana Govan Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:50:17 +0000 http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/jazz-camp-day-fouroops/#comment-8 Katie, You know I have listened to you sing many times at Carmel High School events and am always so impressed with the clarity of your voice...it's just beautiful. But when you sang at the Jazz Camp jam last night, I was so taken by your confidence and depth....I was speechless! I am certain that your performances are a culmination of all of your lessons, classes, etc. But I am so glad you have been given this opportunity to attend the MJF Jazz Camp ...I can see that your appreciation is just geeting deeper. I look forward to the concerts this week. My thanks are going out to the Kiatta family for giving you this opportunity in honor of their daughter. Alex, my son, has attended jazz camp for the past 6 or 7 years, and I am certain it has been one of the major postive influences in his musical AND personal growth! Having both of my sons there this year is just too sweet! Thanks for sharing Katie, Love, Diana Katie,

You know I have listened to you sing many times at Carmel High School events and am always so impressed with the clarity of your voice…it’s just beautiful. But when you sang at the Jazz Camp jam last night, I was so taken by your confidence and depth….I was speechless! I am certain that your performances are a culmination of all of your lessons, classes, etc. But I am so glad you have been given this opportunity to attend the MJF Jazz Camp …I can see that your appreciation is just geeting deeper. I look forward to the concerts this week. My thanks are going out to the Kiatta family for giving you this opportunity in honor of their daughter.

Alex, my son, has attended jazz camp for the past 6 or 7 years, and I am certain it has been one of the major postive influences in his musical AND personal growth! Having both of my sons there this year is just too sweet!

Thanks for sharing Katie,

Love,
Diana

]]> Comment on About by Tom Kiatta http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/about/#comment-7 Tom Kiatta Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:24:40 +0000 #comment-7 Katie, I am so computer-challenged, I 'm not sure this will reach you but I am so touched by your work in learning jazz and in honoring Hydeus. Your website work is amazing. Thanks. Can't wait to meet you ( and especially HEAR you !!). Tom (Hydeus' Dad ). Katie, I am so computer-challenged, I ‘m not sure this will reach you but I am so touched by your work in learning jazz and in honoring Hydeus. Your website work is amazing. Thanks. Can’t wait to meet you ( and especially HEAR you !!). Tom (Hydeus’ Dad ).

]]> Comment on Jazz Camp, Day Four…oops. by Shirley Kiatta http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/jazz-camp-day-fouroops/#comment-6 Shirley Kiatta Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:03:26 +0000 http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/jazz-camp-day-fouroops/#comment-6 Dear Katie, I am Hydeus' mom and only today clicked into your incredible recording of your journey through jazz camp. You have the enthusiasm Hydeus would have shared. She would be (and probably IS) so very pleased that you are there honoring her memory. We all thank you. It is a pleasure to get to know you through your sharing and we look forward to meeting you and your family. Hydeus left us with many unfinished works--poetry, songs, thoughts. We look forward to sharing more of her journey with you. I am going to forward your letter and blog site on to many of the people who supported her through her journey. Have a great two weeks. Hello to Rob Klevan. Best to you, Shirley Kiatta Dear Katie,

I am Hydeus’ mom and only today clicked into your incredible recording of your journey through jazz camp. You have the enthusiasm Hydeus would have shared. She would be (and probably IS) so very pleased that you are there honoring her memory. We all thank you. It is a pleasure to get to know you through your sharing and we look forward to meeting you and your family.

Hydeus left us with many unfinished works–poetry, songs, thoughts. We look forward to sharing more of her journey with you.

I am going to forward your letter and blog site on to many of the people who supported her through her journey.

Have a great two weeks. Hello to Rob Klevan.

Best to you,
Shirley Kiatta

]]> Comment on The First Day of Camp by Judith Mcgregor(Katie's Aunt) http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/the-first-day-of-camp/#comment-5 Judith Mcgregor(Katie's Aunt) Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:13:23 +0000 http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/the-first-day-of-camp/#comment-5 Katie...you are a beautiful writer! I can't believe how many skills you have! Katie…you are a beautiful writer! I can’t believe how many skills you have!

]]> Comment on The First Day of Camp by Katie Carroll http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/the-first-day-of-camp/#comment-4 Katie Carroll Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:52:56 +0000 http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/the-first-day-of-camp/#comment-4 Thank you for writing the very first comment --- and such a beautiful tribute to your beautiful lady. We love your jazzcat blog and visit often, usually while playing Hydeus' CDs in the background. We hope to meet you one of these days and thank you and the Kiattas in person. Sarah Browne (Katie's Mom) Thank you for writing the very first comment — and such a beautiful tribute to your beautiful lady. We love your jazzcat blog and visit often, usually while playing Hydeus’ CDs in the background. We hope to meet you one of these days and thank you and the Kiattas in person. Sarah Browne (Katie’s Mom)

]]> Comment on The First Day of Camp by LeRoy Downs http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/the-first-day-of-camp/#comment-3 LeRoy Downs Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:23:09 +0000 http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/the-first-day-of-camp/#comment-3 I am very honored that you have been so very thoughtful as to give something back to the family by honoring my love with your blog. Hydeus was the most beautiful person and our life was full of joy, laughter, love and jazz music. That mental bond of creativity we shared and taught each other was one of the key elements in our relationship. Hydeus stood for bringing the world together through music. Her travels to other countries as well as having both Lebanese and German roots had her searching for peace, love and unity. Her music was the fabric to spiritually weave the worlds together through sound. I can't begin to tell you how much I miss her. Her love is still and will forever be with me and your presence keeps her memory alive and I thank you for that. Please just strive for the best and turn your dreams into recordings that will teach the world to love. LeRoy Downs TheJazzcat.net I am very honored that you have been so very thoughtful as to give something back to the family by honoring my love with your blog. Hydeus was the most beautiful person and our life was full of joy, laughter, love and jazz music. That mental bond of creativity we shared and taught each other was one of the key elements in our relationship.
Hydeus stood for bringing the world together through music. Her travels to other countries as well as having both Lebanese and German roots had her searching for peace, love and unity. Her music was the fabric to spiritually weave the worlds together through sound.
I can’t begin to tell you how much I miss her. Her love is still and will forever be with me and your presence keeps her memory alive and I thank you for that. Please just strive for the best and turn your dreams into recordings that will teach the world to love.

LeRoy Downs
TheJazzcat.net

]]> Comment on About by Katie Carroll http://carmelkitten.wordpress.com/about/#comment-2 Katie Carroll Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:55:22 +0000 #comment-2 My name is Katie Carroll, and I am an eighteen year old jazz singer in Carmel, California. I have been lucky enough to attend the Monterey Jazz Festival's summer jazz camp for the past three years, and, thanks to the Kiatta family, will be attending for my fourth year starting on June 18th. I received a full scholarship in memory of their daughter, Hydeus Kiatta, who passed away due to stage 4 colon cancer at the much-too-young age of 34. From everything I have read and heard about her, she seems like the type of woman I would like to become: creative, intelligent, passionate, and loving. I hope that this blog, in which I will follow my jazz camp journey, will provide an outlet for me to show just how much this family's gift means to me. Thank you all, Katie My name is Katie Carroll, and I am an eighteen year old jazz singer in Carmel, California. I have been lucky enough to attend the Monterey Jazz Festival’s summer jazz camp for the past three years, and, thanks to the Kiatta family, will be attending for my fourth year starting on June 18th. I received a full scholarship in memory of their daughter, Hydeus Kiatta, who passed away due to stage 4 colon cancer at the much-too-young age of 34. From everything I have read and heard about her, she seems like the type of woman I would like to become: creative, intelligent, passionate, and loving.

I hope that this blog, in which I will follow my jazz camp journey, will provide an outlet for me to show just how much this family’s gift means to me.

Thank you all,
Katie

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