San Francisco is full of amazing cultural elements and city landmarks. It is absolutely beautiful and one of the major cities in the United States. In addition, there are many great artists, actors and musicians that are based there and also a number of iconic performance establishments and museums. Cellist Zoe Keating is just one of many performers that is based in this great American city. Tourists who stay in a San Francisco hotel may have the opportunity to see her perform live while they are visiting.
Keating was born in Ontario Canada to an American father and an English Mother. She began playing the cello at the age of eight and while she almost immediately loved the instrument and knew she would spend a lifetime playing it, she was not particularly interested in pursuing a career in the classical music field, such as playing for a symphony orchestra. She does appreciate and even play classical music, but has always seemed to have her own agenda and performance orientation. She studied cello at Sarah Lawrence College before moving to San Francisco. She is well known for playing onstage while recording herself and playing it back in loops. This gives the audio quality of sounding like up to 16 cellos are playing at once when it is all Keating.
She is also a composer and has written the score for films. Keating collaborates with other artists and has performed with Rasputina, the all female cello based rock band. On more than one occasion Keating has toured with musician Imogen Heap. In fact, Heap is one of her standard contemporary tour partners. In addition she has worked with Amanda Palmer and performed on the album Who Killed Amanda Palmer. Keating has been featured on television programs and frequently performs in the San Francisco area.
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