Bruce Williams
	I began my musical career while in high school by playing and writing music as a founding member of the band “Eastborne”. The band performed mostly in the Metroplex Area, including regular performances at the infamous Cellar in Fort Worth, Dallas, and Houston. In 1973, I moved to San Diego to attend college at Southwest Community College majoring in music until 1976. In 1978, after a two-year period of working inside the Arctic Circle on the pipeline at Prudoe Bay, Alaska, I moved to Denton, Texas to finish my music degree at North Texas State University. As part of the popular trio, “Williams, Scott, and Arnett”, I performed at clubs in Texas, Missouri, and Arkansas including extended bookings at Shaws, Blossums, Randy Tars, and Madisons. In 1989, I began performing as a soloist in venues, that included amoung others, the Pig & Whistle, TANSTAAFL, the Hi-Hat, Hoffbrau, and the Caravan of Dreams. At the Caravan of Dreams I opened for many national touring acts including Loudon Wainwright III, Michael McMurtry, John Martyn, John Cale, Sara Hickman, Tori Amos, John Ims, and Graham Parker. Playing on the Sound Warehouse stage at the Dallas Starplex I performed before the feature artists Larry Carlton / Bella Fleck, Dwight Yoakum, and Luther Vandross. In 1995, I was invited to perform at the Ballad Tree at the Kerrville Folk Festival on the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend. My style of songwriting is contemporary folk, and I have written several plays including “I Ain’t Got No Home”, the life and times of Woody Guthrie, “Oneself I Sing” Walt Whitman, and the award winning play “New Lives”, to name a few. In collaboration with Kerri Kreiman and Contemporary Dance Fort Worth the production of “Whitman, Guthrie, and Dylan” was performed at the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas, the Scott Theater in Fort Worth, and the Corsicana Palace Theater in Corsicana.
	I have been associated with the Kennedy Center’s Imagination Celebration as an artist since 1992 and in 1995 joined the staff in the position of Program Technical Director for Imagination Celebration Fort Worth working in arts education. I also have private students and have been teaching Beginning Guitar I & II for extended education classes at TCU since 2004.
	Published Works: Play’s I Ain’t Got No Home (Woody Guthrie) Oneself I Sing (Walt Whitman) Lovers Knot Songs of the Civil War Step by Step (The American Labor Movement) New Lives Freewheelin’ (Bob Dylan) Whitman, Guthrie, and Dylan (An American Experience) Song Collections Children of an Idle Brain The Label Maker (Children Songs)
	Contact: Bruce Williams P.O. Box 3161 Fort Worth TX. 76113 817.294.2142    817.875.8762 bw@bwmusic.net

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