Keller Willams: New York Guitar Festival

演出简介

During the 2012 New York Guitar Festival, "Silent Films/Live Guitars", groundbreaking guitarists premiere original film scores for silent comedies by the legendary Buster Keaton.

Music's "mad scientist" Keller Williams will perform an original score to Buster Keaton’s One Week, a short comedy about newlyweds who receive a build‐it‐yourself house that can supposedly be built in one week. "It's been exciting, and a little scary, to embark on such a unique project," says Williams." I hope the audience feels that energy during the performance."

Since he first appeared on the scene in the early ’90s, Williams has defined the term independent artist. And his 16 recordings tell only half the story. Keller built his reputation initially on his engaging live performances, no two of which are ever alike. Williams’ solo live shows—and his ability to improvise to his determinedly quirky tunes despite the absence of an actual band—quickly became the stuff of legend, and his audience grew exponentially when word spread about this exciting, unpredictable performer. Today, most often performing as a one‐man band (a stage show constructed around Keller singing his compositions and choice cover songs while accompanying himself on an acoustic guitar connected to a Gibson Echoplex delay system that allows him to simulate a full band), Keller always reveals himself as a is an artist of great stylistic breadth and infinite imagination. He is a singer, songwriter and musician, always on a quest for the new.

Keller Williams has never followed the prescribed path laid out by the conventional music business but rather one of his own making.