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An Evening with Nellie McKay

Nellie McKay has released an eclectic bunch of critically acclaimed albums,
her songs and sound ranging from jazz to pop to indefinable, and with her latest,
HEY GUYS, WATCH THIS, ably assisted by The Carpenter Ants, she taps into the
soulful sounds of West Virginia. Coming soon, the GET AWAY FROM ME demos on
Omnivore Records.

She's won a Broadway Theatre World Award for Polly Peachum in The
Threepenny Opera, co-created/starred in off-Broadway's Old Hats, created musical biographies of
Barbara Graham,Rachel Carson, Joan Rivers, & Billy Tipton

'Best Concerts of the Year' - The New
York Times

As well as acting in the films PS I Love You & Downtown Express, Nellie provided
music for Rumor Has It, Monster-In-Law, Last Holiday, Gasland, Private Life, & PS I Love
You.

Her TV appearances include David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson,
The View, and Jimmy Dore, and her music has been heard on Mad Men, Weeds,
Boardwalk Empire, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, and Nurse Jackie.

Most recently Nellie was nominated for an Ovation Award for her performance in
Ethan Coen's A Play is a Poem at the Mark Taper Forum.

McKay is a recipient of PETA's Humanitarian Award for her dedication to animal
rights & she is a vocal critic of endless war, capitalism, & the two-party system that

..ambitious, intriguing and clever.. Billboard

..funny and touching, ceaselessly clever and scarily talented. The New Yorker

A renegade songwriter with an ultraflexible Great American Songbook sensibility, McKay finds modern resonances everywhere Rolling Stone