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Date:
Monday, April 24, 2023
Time:
7:00 PM
Door Ticket Price:
$42.00
Student Ticket Price:
$21.00
Kuumbwa Jazz Presents

Nellie McKay

6:00 PM
All Ages
Advance ticket sales for this show have ended. Tickets will be available at the door starting at 6:00 PM. Dinner Specials can be purchased at the counter (subject to availability). Masks are encouraged. Please click the 'Plan Your Visit' button above for more information. Thank you!

Dinner Special:
Green Curry with Chicken, Green Beans, Sweet Potatoes & Spinach
Basmati Rice
House Salad & Baguette
*meat & veggie chili will be available to order at the counter

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A singular artist with a unique flair for musical narrative, Nellie McKay has produced an array of wildly varying albums, from Get Away From Me (“a tour de force” – The New York Times), Normal as Blueberry Pie: a Tribute to Doris Day (“among the killer overhauls of American standards” – The New York Times), to My Weekly Reader, music of the 60’s (..kicks serious butt. The results are beautiful.” – PopMatters).

McKay co-created and starred in the award-winning off-Broadway hit Old Hats and has written three acclaimed musical biographies – I Want to Live!, the story of Barbara Graham, third woman executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin, Silent Spring: It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature, an exploration of environmental pioneer Rachel Carson, and A GIRL NAMED BILL – The Life and Times of Billy Tipton named one of the Best Concerts of 2014 by The New York Times. Her latest lady bio is The Big Molinsky – Considering Joan Rivers (“unpredictable, thrilling…sardonic wit..” – The New York Times)

Of McKay, opera icon Renee Fleming says, “I admire any artist with the strength of vision to chart her own creative path, and it’s hard to imagine a better example than singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Nellie McKay…her performances are thought-provoking, emotionally affecting, and fun.. her sweet voice and innocent demeanor mask a singular ability to wield the catchiest popular music idioms of the last century in the service of a fiercely independent intellect.”

Nellie McKay Website 
(Ticket Includes 5% City of Santa Cruz Admission Tax)

Venue

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320 Cedar St.
Santa Cruz, 95060 United States
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Phone
831-427-2227
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