Among Authors: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Watch Among Authors play Radio Signals, The Overture and Lure at the Tiny Desk. More from NPR Music: Tiny Desk Concerts: Twitter: Instagram: Aug. 9, 2019, Bob Boilen When Among Authors arrived at NPR, the Seattle band seemed like a pack of eager pups and with good reason. The odds of this unsigned, selfmanaged quartet playing a Tiny Desk concert was pretty small, but Among Authors is a band that beats the odds. Nearly a dozen years ago, at 23, bandleader Ian Ketterer had openheart surgery. Born without a thumb on his right hand and deaf in his right ear, he plays piano and sings. And, out of more than 6, 000 entries to our 2018 Tiny Desk Contest, Among Authors was one of the most original bands I d seen so much so that we invited the group to perform as part of our Tiny Desk Contest tour in Seattle. I was even more impressed by Among Authors songwriting and keen, spare musicianship at that KEXPspo