William Elliott Whitmore

***Session 506 – This performance provides attendees with a unique and intimate experience by limiting tickets for each concert to just 80 and offering cocktail-style seating in our historic opera house.***

Born and raised on a petite farm in Lee County, Iowa, the love of the land was always an vital part of William Elliott Whitmore’s life. From an early age he learns to appreciate nature and its cycles. The awareness of birth and death is a constant theme in songwriting, seen through the lens of hope and acceptance. These things unite us as people and it’s a topic often explored in music. Using banjo, guitar and kick drum, Whitmore tries to convey these ideas. He has been traveling the world for over twenty years, performing everywhere from Rome, Italy to Rome, Georgia. He has played in basements, backyards, festival stages and at Carnegie Hall and has no plans to stop any time soon. “Life is hard and ugly and sometimes unforgiving,” says Whitmore, “but it is also beautiful, and music can remind us of what unites us all: the desire to keep putting one foot in front of the other.”