| Brad Keller has been a professional musician and educator
for over 15 years. His multi-dimensional musical influences range through
Jazz and Blues to Bluegrass and Country and continue through Folk, Rock
and a variety of World Music. While on the West coast, he attended both
Selkirk and Capilano College, where he studied composing, arranging, ear
training, advanced improvisation, jazz and classical theory. He then continued
his studies south of the border with bluegrass guitar and mandolin instructor
John Moore.
Brad has taught in schools, workshops, and privately;
including two years at The Sorrento Bluegrass Camp, The N.B.C.M.S. Bluegrass
Camp in Edmonton, Alberta, and the Guitar Master’s workshop at the I.B.M.A.
Fan Fest in Louisville, Kentucky.
In April of 2001 Brad co-founded The Creaking
Tree String Quartet. The acoustic quartet also features the work of John
Showman (fiddle), Brian Kobayakawa (double bass) and Andrew Collins (mandolin).
The band has received glowing reviews in the Toronto Star, The Toronto
Sun, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, NOW Magazine and Exclaim Magazine.
Numerous feature articles and reviews on the C.T.S.Q. can also be found
in issues of Dirty Linen, Sing Out, Wholenote, Bluegrass Now, Bluegrass
Unlimited, Bluegrass North, Strings, Relix, Flatpicking Guitar Magazine
and Mandolin Magazine. Acoustic Guitar Magazine selected their first album
in their top 5 of 2003 in two separate editor’s choice lists. The band
received further exposure in both Canada and the United States, after being
featured in the Bravo! documentary film I’ll Fly Away Home. |
