Joseph Keckler: Train With No Midnight
This event is in the past
Every day, through December 4
On the Boards
Uptown (Seattle)
This is an in-person event
The following description comes from the event organizer.
Joseph Keckler and an intimate musical ensemble move through a series of vignettes-- each like a stop on a late-night train-- and circle The Crossroads, a place of danger and possibility. Train With No Midnight dances between comedy, commentary and communion. The score features smoky pop songs, propulsive invocations, and leaps into the operatic realm. ARTIST BIO: Joseph Keckler is a singer, writer, composer and multimedia creator who often zeroes in on moments from daily life and transforms them into absurd and affecting underworld voyages. His performances have been featured by NPR’s Tiny Desk series, Lincoln Center, Centre Pompidou, among others. The New York Times hails him as a "major talent... whose range shatters the conventional boundaries... with a trickster's dark humor," and The Village Voice once crowned him New York's best performance artist. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Vice and elsewhere, and in 2018 his first essay and story collection Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World was published by Turtle Point Press. In 2019 he premiered two works, Train With No Midnight with Prototype and Let Me Die with Opera Philadelphia, and toured the U.S. as the national support act for rock band Sleater-Kinney. His work has been supported by Creative Capital and this year he is an artist in residence at Dartmouth College and The Ringling Museum of Art.