TICKETS:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2530284
Singer of "Larynx-defying range" (New York Times) presents an intimate evening of his work, the last Thursday of each month, April through June, beginning April 28th at Pangea in the East Village. Infused with humor and longing, Keckler's material includes operatic renderings of contemporary life and haunted torch songs.
He will be joined by collaborator Dan Bartfield on violin and pianist Matthew Marsh.
Joseph Keckler is a singer, mu...
TICKETS:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2530284
Singer of "Larynx-defying range" (New York Times) presents an intimate evening of his work, the last Thursday of each month, April through June, beginning April 28th at Pangea in the East Village. Infused with humor and longing, Keckler's material includes operatic renderings of contemporary life and haunted torch songs.
He will be joined by collaborator Dan Bartfield on violin and pianist Matthew Marsh.
Joseph Keckler is a singer, musician, and writer. He is currently artist in residence in Times Square and was recently in residence at The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, where he began a new durational performance piece of operatic death scenes,"Let Me Die".
Last year Joseph made his off-broadway debut as Chaliapin in Dave Malloy's "Preludes" at Lincoln Center Theater and this year he appaeared in "Rimbaud in NY" at BAM. In the past Keckler's work has been featured on BBC America and WNYC Soundcheck and his piece "I am an Opera" was commissioned by Dixon Place. In 2013 The Village Voice named him "Best Downtown Performance Artist." Other awards and residencies: Creative Capital, NYFA Fellow, Franklin Furnace, Yaddo, MacDowell.
"Larynx-defying range"- New York Times
"Arresting. A tour de force of deconstruction"-- Baltimore City Paper
"Swoony"- Variety
"Sexy and Certain"- The New Yorker
"Magnetism and poise so high he seems to have been born on stage."-- The Village Voice
Photo: M. Sharkey Studio
