Handsome Bill Livestream from The Tarrytown Playhouse: The Tarrytown Music Hall continues its Livestream series during their COVID lockdown. Next up is Bill Kelly, a poet, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, who has released four albums of original music (Luck of the Irish, Jumbo, Bread on the Waters, Prince of Morocco). He has just finished making Good, Truth, and Beauty, with producer Lincoln Schleifer and featuring Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm), John Leventhal (Shawn Colvin, Roseanne Cash), John Ginty (Dixie Chicks), Clifford Carter (James Taylor, Ariana Grande), and Joe Bonadio (Sting, Mavis Staples), among others.

Bill has had song placements and his vocal and instrumental work featured in numerous films, including by Ken Russel (Whore), Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) Gus Van Sant (Promised Land), and television shows (Northern Exposure, Ed).  His song Twenty Tears in the Big City appeared on the compilation Freight Train Boogie (alongside Dave Alvin, Slaid Cleaves, Todd Snyder, Hayes Carll, and Bruce Robison, among others.) Based in New York, Bill has performed throughout the United States, the Caribbean, and the UK, including with San Francisco’s The National Theater of the Deranged and the Magaña Baptiste Middle Eastern Dance Troupe, and the New Jersey band, House of Cards.