Musician Brian Kelly goes solo in Springfield, Cottage Grove next week

CRESWELL – You know when you hold a seashell to your ear and it sounds like you’re hearing the ocean? You’re actually just hearing amplified background noise. 

Singer-songwriter Brian Kelly calls his solo musical act “Oceanography,” and it’s pretty mysterious, much like the seashell. It gives his music special meaning – although he never really had any particular message in mind when he came up with it.

“I didn’t want to just be Brian Kelly…