With each project, Keller Williams’ goal is to create music that sounds unlike anything else, seamlessly crossing genre boundaries. The end product is music that encompasses rock, jazz, funk, and bluegrass, keeping the audience on their feet. With Dead Petty Keller Grass, Williams presents bluegrass versions of Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, and reimagined iterations of his own discography, adding in harmonious singalongs with a hint of psychedelia. When performing alone, Williams will accompany himself on acoustic guitar, bass, guitar synthesizer, and drum samples – a technique known as “looping.” The resulting sound becomes a hybrid of alternative folk and groovy electronica, a genre Williams jokingly calls “ADM” or “Acoustic Dance Music.”

Joining Williams on the Dead Petty Keller Grass tour are The HillBenders, a quintet of talented pickers who first made their name as a band with strong instrumental skills and original songs that merged rock and country with a respect for bluegrass traditions.