Cellist Zoe Keating brings her 'swoon inducing' music to Minneapolis

Zoe Keating
Zoe Keating plays the cello at the 2013 Grammys on the Hill Awards in April 2013.
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Solo cellist Zoe Keating will be performing tonight at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis.

Keating is a native of Canada, now living in San Francisco. During her shows, she uses her cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record and play layer upon layer of music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ZMkkunnCE

In a show review, the San Francisco Weekly described the sound she creates as "swoon-inducing:"

Zoe maximized the possibilities of the cello, utilizing every sound that the unwieldy instrument has ever been capable of making. Slides, plucks, percussional noises, and strums are fused with the capabilities of a laptop to create a one-woman symphony of subterranean and rustic soundscapes. "I got off on playing in high school symphonies," she confessed before breaking into a cover of Beethoven's 7th. "So I really love working within all these cellos."

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