An Evening with Will Kimbrough and Alex McMurray
About this Event
Join us Saturday, December 5 @ 7 p.m. at Marigny Studios for a special evening of songs and stories with Nashville songwriter and producer Will Kimbrough with special guest Alex McMurray!
This is a listening room show. Advance tickets recommended. Ticket price includes sales tax and Eventbrite fees.
This intimate evening takes place at Marigny Studios, located in the heart of New Orleans' Faubourg Marigny District and home to countless recording sessions by artists like the Afghan Whigs, Galactic, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Cha Wa, St Vincent, My Morning Jacket, among many others.
A full bar is available. Because this is a listening room show, advanced tickets are strongly recommended. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
About WILL KIMBROUGH
Nashville's Will Kimbrough has spent a lifetime writing songs and performing them, along the way becoming a respected recording artist, producer, and musician.
As a Grammy-nominiated songwriter, Will's songs have been recorded by Jimmy Buffett, Little Feat, Todd Snider, Jack Ingram, Gretchen Peters, Shemekia Copeland, and many others. His production credits include Jimmy Buffett, Doug Seegers, Todd Snider, Radney Foster, and Steve Poltz.
As a mult-instrumentalist, Will has performed on records by Rodney Crowell, Kim Richey, Martina McBride, Jimmy Buffett, Tommy Womack, Amanda Shires, and Todd Snider, among many others. Will is a prolific writer and recording artist, a member of Willie Sugarcapps, DADDY, and Emmylou Harris' Red Dirt Boys.
Will's latest album is For the Life of Me.
About ALEX MCMURRAY
Alex McMurray is a New Orleans singer-songwriter, guitarist, and compulsive bandleader whose literary wit, whiskey-throated voice, and restless curiosity have made him one of the most beloved — and most prolific — figures in the city's downtown music community for more than 30 years.
Alex grew up in Red Bank, New Jersey and arrived in New Orleans in the late 1980s as a student at Tulane University. He never left. Instead of following an academic path, he fell in with the city's street culture, playing clubs and developing his voice as a songwriter in the toughest rooms the downtown scene had to offer — Maple Leaf Bar, Café Brasil, Tipitina's — winning audiences over with hard-boiled banter and songs that found beauty in the crooked and the broken. He has been writing and performing professionally in New Orleans since 1989.
His early band Royal Fingerbowl, which ran from 1995 to 2001, established him as a songwriter of uncommon originality — sardonic, literate, and deeply rooted in the specific textures of New Orleans life. When Royal Fingerbowl dissolved, Alex released a series of solo albums and formed The Tin Men, a sousaphone-washboard-guitar trio, with Matt Perrine and Washboard Chaz Leary whose loose, humorous, and deceptively skilled performances have made them a perennial favorite at Jazz Fest and the city's clubs since 2003.
Alex's bands are numerous and various. 007 plays the Jamaican rock-steady and reggae canon. The Valparaiso Men's Chorus is a 20-plus-voice ensemble backed by tuba, trombone, fiddle, and penny whistle that fuses 19th-century maritime songs with the New Orleans second line tradition. Their shows at the Saturn Bar have been described as near-apocalyptic events, the performance space morphing into the swaying hold of a sailing ship.
He also plays regularly in the orbit of cellist and vocalist Helen Gillet and has worked as a sideman with Susan Cowsill, Paul Sanchez, Lynn Drury, Spencer Bohren, and "Papa" John Gros, among many others. His Tuesday-night solo residency at Buffa's — a continuation of the semi-legendary Wednesday gig he held at the Circle Bar from 1999 onward — remains one of the essential recurring shows in New Orleans, a place where any song from a vast repertoire might surface, where guests drop in unannounced, and where the songs keep getting better. OffBeat has called him "the quintessential New Orleans singer-songwriter." His album How to Be a Cannonball won Big Easy Album of the Year. He appeared as himself in multiple episodes of HBO's Treme, and has co-organized the Jazz Fest fringe festival ChazFest since its founding.
Alex is, in the fullest sense, a New Orleans original — one who arrived by accident and never found a reason to leave.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 38.50
