Original Songs by Will MacBride

When I went looking for a crystal day
Then there was a town down there one day
Look at all inhabitants [old lyrics: all the animals] with meaning try
I know all we got to do is fly
Tell me where your dreams been at these days
Birdseye Creek creature and he sees your ways
Don't know what to say
People hurt each other every day
Makes me think we'll all get home some way

See a spark of love on the ground some time
Where's it seem to go on the nightline?
Seems like its the world
Something that you want to tell your girlfriend

Shuffle through phenomena shuffle through the sleep
When you hit the weather wall dive in deep
Gods are in the sky
Or somewhere nearabouts in your pie eyed side eye
Something in the lighthouse starts to beep

Here we are stumbling through a crystal day
Does everyone around really feel this way?
Talking to your friends
Words are getting warped in the bending lense
From seeing the beginning that is past the end

Crystal Day

Mind Open Eyes Closed

Astro Brat Funky Leap

Bumblekickin

Dream to Be Somewhere

My name is Will MacBride. I'm a jazz/fusion/rock pianist, guitarist, and singer/song writer. I started learning music at a young age and by high school was playing classical, jazz, and rock/pop piano. Playing initially with my high school jazz band and with friends, I subsequently performed with The Connecticut All State Jazz Ensemble, a state wide high school all star band. I also began playing the guitar and writing songs in my late teens

After high school I attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and The New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village, New York City. At the latter I studied with noted jazz pianist Walter Davis Jr. , who in turn had studied with Thelonious Monk and was internationally known for carrying on the piano giant's stylistic and aesthetic tradition.

Over the years I have been involved in a fairly wide variety of musical projects ranging across the jazz/rock/contemporary music continuum and playing shows at diverse locales and venues. I find that performing with versatility and eclecticism, spanning a spectrum of contemporary genres, gives me a sense of musical freedom and interactively informed context.

Recently I have been focusing on performance here in the Rogue Valley, playing jazz, blues, and rock piano and guitar in solo and group situations  at a number of different local venues.