Zoë Keating

Tickets cost $35 in advance, $40 day of show (plus service charges).

This is a standing room only show. There are no seats at Meow Wolf. All Ages!  (Most shows at Meow Wolf are 21+, but Zoë specifically asked for an all ages show to make it more accessible.)

Composer and performer Zoë Keating has spent the last 20 years exploring the landscape of sounds a string instrument can make. She coaxes sounds out of the very edges of her cello, adeptly layering them into "swoon inducing" (San Francisco Weekly) music that is unclassifiable yet "a distinctive mix of old and new" (National Public Radio). She is known for her use of technology—which she uses to record and sample her cello onstage and in the studio—and for her DIY approach—composing, recording and producing her works without the help of a record label.

Born in Canada, Keating started playing the cello when she was eight and went on to pursue electronic music and contemporary composition as part of her Liberal Arts studies at Sarah Lawrence College. After graduation she moved to San Francisco and built a career as an information architect and data analyst while moonlighting as a cellist in rock bands. Keating eventually combined her love of music and technology, using a computer to live-layer her cello and performing for late-night parties in the San Francisco warehouse in which she lived.

Keating's recorded works have achieved a surprising degree of popular ubiquity for a DIY artist. Her self-produced albums have several times reached #1 on the iTunes classical charts and spent many months on the Billboard classical charts. Her recordings are used as bumper music for NPR's Morning Edition, as the theme music to OnBeing, as the thinking music of the Sherlock Holmes character on CBS' "Elementary," in HBO's hit drama "White Lotus," in countless documentaries and in tens of thousands of online videos of everything from professional and amateur dance performances to rock climbing and gaming videos.

In addition to her recordings, Keating performs to rapt audiences around the world. Each performance is unique as she spontaneously improvises around her pieces, demonstrates how she makes them and tells the stories behind them.