Will Rast is pianist and keyboards artist who has recorded with numerous Cancer Can Rock featured artists.
Rooted in jazz, he plays many musical styles and has toured the world with a wide range of artists from Pop R&B singer Mya, to second wave Afrobeat pioneers, Antibalas and Argentine singer song writers Federico Aubele and Natalia Clavier. Will Rast plays keyboards on Antibalas’s 2019 Grammy-nominated album Fu Chronicles. He also appears on recordings with Ocote Soul Sounds, Antibalas, international Electronica superstars, Thievery Corporation and GRiZ, as well as recordings with Italian rap sensation, Jovanotti, Mexican hip-hop group, Banda Bastone, as well as many others and has released four records of his own original material with his group, The Funk Ark.
He has shared the stage as an accompanist with the likes of Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley, Judy Collins, Josh Ritter, Allen Toussaint, Sam Moore, Bettye LaVette, Richard Marx, Mike Gordon, Angelique Kidjo, Ledisi, Taj Mahal, Ruthie Foster, Todd Rundgren, Don Bryant, Kenny Loggins, Steve Earle, Billy Gibbons, CeeLo Green and Melissa Etheridge. He has played in some of the most prestigious venues in the world, including Carnegie Hall; the Apollo Theater; The Filmore in San Francisco; The Vienna Opera House; The Blue Note, Tokyo; The Hippodrome in Rome; London’s O2 Arena; Le Zenith in Paris, and at England’s Glastonbury Festival.
[Selected excerpts from Everybody Wiki.]
