The 2019 documentary Keyboard Fantasies tells the story of Beverly Glenn Copeland, a black transgender septuagenarian and musical genius who finally finds his place in the world and, in honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, patrons can catch a viewing during a Monday, June 15 screening.
As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home-studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realised far before its time.
Three decades later, the musician–now Glenn Copeland–began to receive emails from people across the world, thanking him for the music they’d recently discovered. Courtesy of a rare-record collector in Japan, a reissue of Keyboard Fantasies, and subsequent plays by Four Tet, Caribou, and more, Copeland’s music finally found its audience.
Directed by Posy Dixon, Keyboard Fantasies will be shown at the Main Library at 7:00pm and has a running time of 63 minutes. |
