Clinton Curtis & His Band

Jan 4, 2020 - Jan 4, 2020

Clinton Curtis, a Key West native and 2002 graduate of Key West High School returns to Key West for a special one-night-only concert at the Waterfront Playhouse on Saturday January 4th at 8pm.  A dynamic band comprised of celebrated, multi-grammy-nominated musicians will join him onstage, along with some special, local surprise guests.   Clinton will play songs from his recent studio albums as well as a handful of standards from the Americana, Blues, Folk, Rock and Jazz songbook.   

Clinton moved to New York City in 2002 and has enjoyed a wildly-diverse career in music since.   As a classical singer he has worked with many of the world’s luminary conductors and orchestras.  Including recent engagements  with The Vienna Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra the San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Gustavo Dudamel. March 2016 marked his principal operatic debut in Curlew River for the Mark Morris Dance Group in New York. In 2019, Clinton performed in the world premier of David Lang’s triumphant opera Prisoner of the State with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.  

Clinton is currently the featured vocalist with The Mark Morris Dance Group’s smash hit Pepperland featuring the music of the Beatles’ Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.   Premiering in Liverpool, UK in 2017,  Pepperland continues to tour internationally and in the US through 2021.    

As a singer/songwriter and bandleader Clinton has leased 6 original studio albums on the record label 27 Sound.  The Clinton Curtis Band has toured internationally as cultural ambassadors with the US Department of State, including concerts in Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil and The Dominican Republic.