Free + open mic. Bay Area singer-songwriter Ken Risling has been
having a love affair with music since childhood: singing before he
could talk, learning his tribe’s traditional dances, and playing
instruments -- piano, trumpet, French horn, guitar, bass -- at every
chance he could grab. But it was grief that broke the dam and released
the songs within him. He was 40 before he finished his first
testimonial to loss, “Down To Jonestown”; it's critical acclaim
signaled the emergence of his voice from the ocean of silence, and so
began the gentle rain of songs. There are many, now, in all manner of
style and subject. It is the delicate pas de deux between words and
music that fuels his enthusiasm for the art; and it is the connection
with the audience through songs that feeds his love for performing.
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06/06/2018 Last update