Curtis Eller's American Circus @ The Ruby Lounge November 15, 2012

CURTIS ELLER sings about pigeon racing, performing elephants and Jesus, all of which he has seen with his own eyes. He started his show-business career at the age of seven as a juggler and acrobat in the Hiller Olde Tyme Circus in Detroit, but has since turned to the banjo because that's where the money is. His biggest musical influences are Buster Keaton, Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln.

Mr. Eller and his band, The American Circus have appeared at funerals, horse races, burlesque revues and punk rock dumps. Haunted by the ghosts of silent film and wearing a dead man's clothes, Mr. Eller and the band have staggered their way into the hearts of audiences from London and Amsterdam to Los Angeles and Montreal.

Along the way, they have shared the stage with strippers, contortionists, glass eaters and folksingers.

"Blam! His foot stomped the stage with more menace than most drummers can muster. Blang! He attacked the strings of his banjo, daring them to snap. He howled, he crooned, he yodeled, he muttered nervously and screamed insanely. Curtis Eller sang pretty nostalgic ballads about Buster Keaton and Amelia Earhart. Curtis Eller banged out angular, disjointed cemetery polkas, spat out rust-belt beat poetry and tangoed til his fingers were sore."

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