Keith Waters Profile

Thanks to the alarmingly successful recruitment efforts of the Courier's Biff Warren, Keith Waters was persuaded to contribute articles to the Courier beginning last summer.

Local readers lavish praise on his prose, noting that his articles are "remarkably adequate," with one local going so far as to say that they are "appropriate in length." When asked about Waters's writing, Niwot novelist Jim Ringel was quoted as saying, "...uhh, right, Keith Waters," before abruptly leaving the room.

When he is not doing a Brenda Starr-turn for the Courier, Waters teaches at the College of Music at the University of Colorado in Boulder where he is a professor. He is a jazz pianist playing locally and nationally, and the author of a number of books related to jazz.

Along with Gene Hayworth, Waters is owner of Inkberry Books in Cottonwood Square. He and Hayworth also organize and run the Niwot Jazz Festival for the Niwot Cultural Arts Association, which typically occurs the Saturday after summer solstice. Waters is also a member of the Niwot Local Improvement District (LID) Advisory Committee.

He is known among Niwot denizens for his use of irrelevant (and frequently pretentious) French phrases, and for his deeply superficial conversational ability.