Singer-songwriter David Coller plays Best Video Film & Cultural Center Sat., Jan. 21. The show starts at 7 PM and the cover is $10.

David has been writing and performing in the folk genre since his teens while maintaining a parallel interest in classical music. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in music from the University of Southern California before moving on to the east coast and a career in the medical world. He has continued to play in bands, duos and as a solo performer in southern California and after that, Connecticut, until being waylaid by a wooden boat (if you’ve ever owned one you understand) and then, on the cusp of a re-emergence, by COVID purgatory (we’ve all been there, haven’t we?)

Now he has been playing out again for the past year and a half, mainly in Connecticut but with the odd foray to the west coast. He brings with him a variety of new songs: jazzy soon-to-be standards, new bluegrass tunes, sea-songs, a cowboy tune or two, and plenty of straight-up folk performed on the guitar, banjo, and the odd bit of button accordion. If you have wide-ranging (not to say “scattered” or “aimless”) taste in music, an appreciation for careful instrumental and vocal arrangements, and enjoyment of polished lyrics, you’ll enjoy the show.

He now resides in the last rural smidgeon of Hamden, Connecticut.