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By Ivy Davis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The Advocate<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI started for all the wrong reasons,\u201d Kenney Polson said. Polson is a member of the MHCC District board of directors, elected in 2015 to a four-year term. He is also a world-traveling, accomplished saxophonist\/composer. This summer he plans to be touring with a well-known group, the Stone City Band, playing the saxophone. Polson said he started playing saxophone mostly by chance. He retold the story of how he met a \u201clady\u201d in seventh grade. \u201cShe was going into the band room,\u201d he said. Following the girl into the band room, he decided he needed to play drums \u201cbecause that\u2019s where the girl was,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n Polson and the band teacher fought over which instrument he would play and in the end, the 13-year-old Polson picked up the saxophone. Since then, the board member has been avidly playing saxophone along with a number of other instruments.<\/p>\n \u201cWhich ones don\u2019t I play,\u201d Polson responded, before ticking off \u201calto sax, clarinet, flute, oboe, drums, keyboards, and a little bit of French horn,\u201d not fully completing his list.<\/p>\n Before coming to MHCC, the musician worked as a band instructor at Portland\u2019s Cleveland High School and Hosford Middle School. He has an associate of arts degree from Fresno City College, a master\u2019s degree in jazz composition from Howard University, and an education specialist degree from Lewis & Clark College.<\/p>\n Polson has traveled the world teaching and performing his art.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been to 50 countries and I\u2019ve performed in all but two,\u201d said Polson. He also has made teaching stops at Marylhurst University, Merced College, the International School of Beijing, Howard University, and the American School of Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n The board member recalled going to the Louvre Museum in Paris and being enthralled in the art. \u201cI love the visual arts,\u201d he commented, adding that he has gone to many famous Currently, Polson serves on the MHCC board and is a member of a four-person band, The Kenney Polson Project. The musician\u2019s goal is to \u201cnot only educate but to serve the community\u201d on the college board, he said.<\/p>\n Polson has formed his own local band that consists of him on the sax, a piano-keyboard player, a bass player, and a drummer. A guitarist is his next planned addition, he said. He would love a set-up where he could go and record music every day.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Stone City Band was made famous by its famous frontman, Rick James, performing funk, rock, and soul music. The lyrics \u201cShe\u2019s a super freak, super freak, she\u2019s super-freaky, yow\u201d from the song \u201cSuper Freak\u201d run through the mind when thinking of James.<\/p>\n Polson is waiting until June 6, when he goes on tour with the group. For now, Polson enjoys being active on campus. Recently he was invited by Dan Davey, Mt. Hood music instructor, to play with his band here but declined, not having his instrument with him and saying, \u201cmusicians just don\u2019t blow on each other\u2019s horns.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Ivy Davis The Advocate \u201cI started for all the wrong reasons,\u201d Kenney Polson said. Polson is a member of the MHCC District board of directors, elected in 2015 to a four-year term. He is also a world-traveling, accomplished saxophonist\/composer. 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