Join Excuse My French on Wednesday, April 3rd @ 12pm when he hosts Bay Area based pianist Kadie Kelly ahead of her upcoming concert at The Center in SF on April 7th.
Kadie Kelly is a classical piano musician who is a member of the Women’s Audio Mission and leads an all-female group called the Kadie Kelly Quintet.
Kelly’s stories and music center around her life journeys, both physical and existential. From a large, diverse family in Detroit, Michigan, where she learned piano and discovered her public speaking skills as the student body president of her high school, she went on to explore living in Provo, Utah, at Brigham Young University. Later, she proselytized in French in the south of France before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she finished college and raised her two sons as a divorced, single mom.
Completing her studies with a master’s in Public Policy from Mills College, she founded the short-lived Oakland Single Parents’ Network and served as a guest lecturer at Touro University’s Public Health Department while always teaching piano lessons and writing music.
Her debut studio album, Journey to Innocence, is partially influenced by her time spent living in the south of France and pays homage to the French romantic, modern/minimalism periods, and film composers.
