Keith Flye flying high

Posted by admin on Sep 22, 2011

Should’ve been there…

Singer/songwriter soars into the new season

Singer-songwriter, sweet, soul man Keith Flye soared into his debut at the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe In early Sep­tem­ber. For the appre­cia­tive audi­ence at the twice-monthly down­town acoustic cafe Keith’s gui­tar and vocals con­nected the dots from today to a decade ear­lier when Amer­ica changed in a crash of air­planes and the rum­ble of cul­ture warp. Singing on the eve of the 9/11 anniver­sary, the Fort Wayne native gave a packed house at the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe a musi­cal and poetic ground­ing for the spo­ken­word that was to follow.

There’s a lot to be said for the musi­cians and other artists who stick it out in this city at the junc­tion of three rivers, either mak­ing it their home or their home­base as they sojourn to other venues in other parts of the state and coun­try to bring their unique three rivers fla­vor to audi­ences. Keith Flye, the scion of a fam­ily of musi­cians, has gen­er­ated quite a fol­low­ing in the Sum­mit City, and he increased that audi­ence the sec­ond Sat­ur­day of Sep­tem­ber when he opened the new sea­son for the SpokenWordCafe.

That drum you hear punc­tu­at­ing the back­ground is the hand­i­work of Sene­galese native and Fort Wayne main­stay Fey Fey Mous­sou, who dou­bles as a prin­ci­pal at TRIAAC. A shoutout to Fey Fey who has been back­ing artists since the cafe opened in April of 2009. 

Keith deliv­ered 60 stir­ring min­utes of sweet soul, a heap of funk giv­ing us a whole lot to feel and think about. We wish him all the best as he heads off to the Left Coast to pur­sue more fre­quent engage­ments, larger but not more appre­cia­tive audi­ences, and pos­si­bly a record deal. Deep appre­ci­a­tion young brother. Peace.

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