Amy Rigby at Vessel Craft Coffee

Wise and witty singer/songwriter and author Amy Rigby returns with songs sure to evoke a knowing smile.
About this Event

Rock n Reel calls singer-songwriter Amy Rigby "one of the most intelligent and inspired true American troubadours of the last half a century."

She returns for her third time at North Shore Point. Tickets are $25 plus fees and the city's 10 percent tax.

Raised in Pittsburgh, schooled in late 70s lower Manhattan, Amy formed country band Last Roundup and Richard Hell's favorite girl group the Shams in NYC's East Village before launching her solo career with 90s classic album Diary Of A Mod Housewife. From a Nashville publishing deal to Underground Garage's Coolest Song "Dancing With Joey Ramone" to guest on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, World Cafe and Mountain Stage, Amy's passion for punk, psychedelia, garage and good old songcraft spill out on record and across the stage.

Amy's been writing online since before the invention of the blog, and has contributed essays to Slate, The Village Voice; Dylan at 80 (Imprint Academic), and How Women Made Music (Harper Collins). Publishing memoirs Girl To City (2019) and Girl To Country (2025), Rigby has toured the US and UK reading and playing songs from what Record Collector calls her "rocking, rolling journey from new-wave New York, through Nashville, on to England—moving and very funny."

https://substack.com/@amyrigby

Doors at 7. There will be food and drinks for sale. This is a seated show.

Listen:

Dylan in Dubuque

Dancing with Joey Ramone

Keep It to Yourself

Bricks

Time for Me to Come Down

The critics' views:

"...still one of the true masters of her craft." —No Depression

"...when she plays solo...she proves that all you need are sturdy songs and a true voice." —Chicago Reader

"Singer-songwriter...doesn't fully describe Rigby's immense gifts and her devotion to the kind of pop and rock music that singer-songwriters often neglect." —Nashville Scene

"... a woman who's fully lived a rock and roll existence, from footloose bohemian youth through motherhood and marriages, and is still out there spinning tales made of whimsy and sudden shining insight. —Ann Powers, KNPR

"As compelling a storyteller on the page as she is on the stage, Rigby is an engaging and likeable narrator, disarmingly frank and funny whether discussing sex, parenthood and family dysfunction or the trials and doubts of an independent touring musician..." SHINDIG

"Ms. Rigby's memoir—a lucid, unguarded account of band life—is one of the best I've read. And I've read tons." Hugo Lindgren, New York Times