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Key to Adam Awards & Achiventments:

~ 2024 & 2025 1st Place for Best of WV Musician/ Band

~ 2022 WV Governor's Arts Awards - Resiliency in the Arts

~ 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 The Best of WV Weddings for Live Music

~ Best Overall & 1st Place for Amateur Float at the Grand Feature Strawberry Festival Parade

~ 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, & 2024 The Knot Best of Weddings Awards

~ 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, & 2024 Wedding Wire Couple Choice Awards

~ 2023 The Knot Hall of Fame

~ 1st Runner Best of West Virginia 2022 Musician/Band

~ 3rd place Best of West Virginia 2021 & 2023 Musician/Band

~ $7,437.00 Grant from the WVDACH for our Live Streams 2021

~ $5,000.00 Grant from the WVDACH for Professional Development 2023

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Our Story

Their story starts in the year of 2016 downtown at a Coffee Shop called Dough Re Mi in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Adam used to run a daytime open mic and encouraged people to either perform and share their music or play along with him. Adam had multiple different instrument players come to the open mic from accordion, banjo, a washtub bass player, and so many other instrument. Ron Pugh was telling Kiara for over 2 months that she should come to this open mic at a coffee shop in town. He said it is really fun and we would have a wonderful time! Kiara told him “I’ll come one day soon.” One day she finally went to the open mic with her mother "Melissa Williams" and friend "Dakota Russell". Kiara and her friend played a couple of tunes and jammed with the other musicians that were there. As they were there Adam started to play a chord progression that he was working on. Kiara started listening to him and then picked up her instrument out of her case and started playing along with him. It instantly clicked! The whole room just turned quiet, you could hear a pen drop. It was like they were the only ones there. Adam said when she started playing along with it, it sounded like the background music to “Braveheart.” Adam would play things different in the song and she would play the same thing. (it’s like she would know what he would play next.) After we got done we actually had someone come up to us and said that they wanted to hire us to play that song in a local documentary. We said, "first off we don't even know each other and that wasn't even a song." The magic in that very moment is what created Key to Adam. They then friended each other on Facebook and started working on their journey and practicing from then on.
Kiara and her mom went to Adam's house that very next day and started trying to redo the magic that they created from the day before. Dan Hale and his crew was at Adam's house to video the song. Even though they never got to see the finalized video that moment was a "key" part of Key to Adam and we learned so much from each other. The song they ad lived off of each other that day is called Boone. They don't have a version of them doing it together but have a beautiful version that Adam had done of himself.
For 6 months straight from that day on they would practice every day for 6 to 8 hours straight, he never has met someone that could practice as long as she could or even play the same song for that long. Kiara's mom drove her to his house every day and they practiced. They are so grateful and thankful for Kiara's mother Melissa, she was so helpful when they first started and pushed them so hard. Melissa continues to still help them so very much.

Later that week they got asked to do a Christmas song on the "Christmas in the Country CD" for the Banks District Volunteer Fire Department. The Christmas song they recorded for that CD was “What Child is This.”
When Kiara's mother and her were going through old photos they happened to abruptly stop and noticed something in the photo. 6 months before Adam and Kiara met he actually saw her at Fasnacht in Helvetia, West Virginia. Adam was watching Kiara play in a jam session with some of her favorite people in the Star Band Hall before going to the square dance that night. He just happened to show up with a family friend that night. You can see the back of Adam's head with the grey sweater in the photo down below.
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A couple months into their journey they got hired for their first gig and it was for an Open House for a Funeral Home. Not your typical first gig!! Tomblyn-Clutter Funeral Home renovated their venue and wanted us to play for there open house. They got paid in Applebees gift cards that Kiara and her mother ended up using. 
Traveling throughout the years for over a decade they have been to so many amazing places, earned and achieved awards, and also have learned a lot. Traveling to Michigan, South Carolina, New Jersey, and so many other states for Weddings and Special Events to winning Best of West Virginia Band 2Xs, a Governors Art Award for Resiliency for in the Arts, multiple Wedding awards, Best Overall and 1st Place for Amateur float for the Strawberry Festival Grand Feature Parade, to multiple grants and so much more. They could not have done this without the support of you and you pushing them to be the best version of themselves.  
One of Kiara and Adam's favorite parts of their musical journey is getting to inspire and make others smile! While they love performing at Weddings and Special Events one of their favorite things to do is donating their time at Nursing Homes and Schools. Getting to see children and adults sway to music with their eyes closed, is just so heartwarming to them and hearing like "I really needed that today," just means the world to them.
Everyone always wonders why they chose the name Key to Adam. Key to Adam means multiple things! Kiara’s nickname is Key, with Adam being from New Jersey (r's are a little difficult or them to pronounce) it was quite difficult at first for him to say Kiara so he called her Key for a bit and its easier for people to remember Key. Adam didn't do much with his music when Kiara first met him, he actually didn't even think of himself as a musician. Adam played finger-style guitar as a meditation to fall asleep at night because he had so many back surgeries, but whenever Kiara started playing with him it added a different dimension to his music. It was like Kiara was the “Key” to Adam’s music. She also came around in his life when he needed her the most, they like to think they both found each other at the perfect moment. 
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Over the last decade there has been hard times too, like Adam's OCD, Anxiety, Depression, Health Issues, and so much more, but we are so proud of him for opening up and talking about his situations and helping others. That is no easy task to talk about but Kiara pushes him to spread the word because you never know who it might help. Adam's words of encouragement can be found down below by clicking the "Read More" button.
When Kiara and Adam look back at the journeys they've been on one that stands out in their mind is The Greenbrier. When they first started music together they set a goal for themselves, it was to play at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Little by little they worked hard at there goal and in the winter of 2022 they were awarded a Governors Art Award for Resiliency in the Arts and got to perform at the award show, they felt like they were on the clouds. Little did they know that night the First Lady's assistant recorded them playing an arrangement of Star Wars and Metallica on stage and sent it to her. The Governor and First Lady immediately fell in love with their music and hired them for multiple events and brought them to the goal of playing at The Greenbrier. Thank you so much to the First Lady's assistant for making it a dream come true. They played there for 3 years straight every weekend in December and also performed other holidays and parties as well there. 
One of the things that Kiara has always wanted to do was enter in the Strawberry Festival Grand Feature Parade and the year of 2025 her dream came true!! She went up to Adam and her family and said "we are entering the Grand Feature Parade this year, the theme is us!" Adam's eyes got big and probably started to sweat, Kiara mother got worried but excited. Kiara went into her design program and started laying out the design. The theme was "Once Upon a Strawberry." Her father and uncle own a saw milling company "T and J Sawmilling" and they sponsored our float and allowed them to use the new trailer they just bought. Kiara and her mother worked very hard at planning and figuring out the layout. Her father and mother even made her vision of a real life standing book come to life. After a lot of work and a lot of planning the day was finally here. They arrive in their spot and the whole family gets out and started tacking everything down. Kiara's grandparents (bender side) was helping set up and driving the truck and trailer through the parade, Kiara's parents tacking everything down and doing fine details, and Kiara and Adam was doing fine details and setting up music stuff. Kiara wore one of the dresses she made, it was a strawberry dress and Adam had a tie she made to match. They went down strawberry lane playing and rocking their hearts out and took home Best Overall float and 1st Place for Amateur float. After all that hard work it was well worth it. They got to see so many people they knew and they were cheering them on. This is definitely one of there favorites memories over the decade. She is so incredibly grateful for all of her families help and can't thank them enough for making this dream come true.
Ron Pugh thank you so much for pushing Kiara to come to Dough Re Mi’s Open Mic Session. If Kiara would have never gone to Dough Re Mi, she would've never met Adam. You are such a wonderful part of there life and you are there guardian angel! You bring us so much light and you mean the world to us.
Kiara and Adam set up a challenge for themselves in October of 2024 doing a song a day on their social media platforms. They have been going strong and haven't missed one day. It really gets them out of there comfort zone and they get to learn a bunch of fun songs! Some of the special months they do countdowns. In February they do a 14 song countdown for Valentine's Day, all love songs. In October they do 31 song countdown for Halloween and dress up in different outfits. In December they do a 25 song countdown with Christmas songs and they go to beautiful resorts and capture the Christmas beauty in their videos. On Wednesdays they do West Virginia Artist Wednesday where they take a West Virginia artists original song and cover it, that has been so much fun for them and they love doing that. Be sure to check out their daily videos on all platforms.
None of this would be possible without any of you, they truly appreciate everything you have done for them and grateful for all of your support. They are so excited to see what their journey has to offer in the future and love every single one of you so very much.

With Love,

Kiara Williams & Adam Moyer

Check out Kiara's bio or Adam's bio down below!
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Live Instrumental Music
located in Upshur County WV

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Booking / Contact
keytoadam@gmail.com
304-931-1661

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