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Ireland / Liverpool
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I'm just here, ya know--show up when i'm needed...when I have the time

Deeply influenced by ambient, world and underground dance music, her compositions are a confluence of dreamy synths, haunting dub crashes, lush tabla, percussive polyrhythms and shuffling dance beats. 
Forging a path as a performer and recording artist since 2001, Michelle is always pushing boundaries and expectations. She embarked on a lifetime of learning Indian classical music traditions and compositions and has studied with tabla masters, mainly in the Lucknow Garana, both in Southern California and Kolkata, India.
Michelle began performing live tabla with different songwriters and world fusion bands around Los Angeles. Her exposure to music from Brazil, India, Africa and the Middle East live on as a library of sounds in her mind. Melodies and rhythms from all over the globe flavor her dancefloor ready tracks.
She has performed with her project Madly in Dub (2008-2020) at Northwest festivals like Photosynthesis, Cascadia Music and Arts Festival, Imagine Festival (Orcas Island), Fremont Solstice Fest and Seattle venues like Monkey Loft, Substation, Nectar, The High Dive and The Triple Door.
Her solo, live producer performances in 2023 included NW Folklife Festival, Caravan and Cascadia Music and Arts festival. Miss Kestrel's genre expanding music has been categorized as Organic House and Folktronica.
Her second solo album “Kadupul” will be released on the multi genre label  Eklectic Sounds on April 18th, 2024
Listen for Michelle Kestrel’s music in 2025 at festivals, club nights and her upcoming digital releases!

. "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." "Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid." "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." "Life, he realize, was much like a song.

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