Geoffrey Williams

Geoffrey Williams, UK singer-songwriter, improviser, live looping creating music out of thin air! Performing MOBO (music of Black origin) - originals, improvisation & reinterpretations of artists such as Prince, Sly Stone. Think 1970s soul vocals, heavenly harmonies, chilled beatbox grooves!

Career highlights include:

- Songwriting for artists such as Michael Jackson and Dusty Springfield

- 2017 Australian National Busking Championships: Open Winner

- touring The Night ReVerses poetry/improv looping event with poet Nathan Curnow – Krakow, Frankfurt, Heidelberg (opening the Heidelberg Literature Festival) 2018; Clunes Booktown 2023; A Hill To Die On book launch, 2024

- Musical directing and co-writing Windrush - Boite Millennium Chorus and Boite Schools' Chorus mass choirs with choral director Stella Savy at Hamer Hall, Melbourne Town Hall, Ballarat, Bairnsdale, and Albury. 2016

- Directing the Daylesford Soul Choir 2010 - 2020; Clarendon College Senior Choir 2014 - 2019; The October Choir 2016 - 2019, 2025; Ballarat Grammar Contemporary Choir 2020 - present

- playing at Montreux Jazz Festival, Jazz Cafe (London), Woodford, Begonia Festival ‘20/‘24, Bendigo Blues & Roots ‘16 - ‘22, White Night Bendigo ‘22, A Festival Called George ‘23, Clunes Booktown ‘23/‘24, Hide+Seek Festival ‘22/’24, Mercedes F1 ‘24, CresFest ‘25

Here are some links to check out:

CHOIR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aIOlZCe_EY

SOLO

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mIis1169M0 - full performances of 2 originals Thinking & Stardust

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/p/DGIBnANvitE/ a clip of When Doves Cry by Prince

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mrgeoffreywilliams

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/1kUmREHnKDz29HgPW0iU9Y