Freedy's Tues. Night Live w/special guest Mary Lee Kortes

Freedy's Tues. Night Live w/special guest Mary Lee Kortes, May 12th, @ WFMU's Monty Hall, 8pm, 43 Montgomery St., in Jersey City. Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts promptly at 8pm. Monty Hall will be selling soft drinks and snacks. Bring your own alcohol.
No admission charge, but we’ll be passing the hat. Seating is limited, so register early.
One block from the Path train & HudsonBergen light rail Exchange Place stations.
If driving, street parking is best on York St.. Parking garages nearby: LAZ Parking - 105 Greene St. (1 min. walk) or LM Gotham Parking Garage, 129 Montgomery St..

Freedy Johnston is a singer-songwriter, originally from Kansas. He moved to New York in the 1980’s, & worked as an office temp for a few years before landing a deal with Bar None Records in Hoboken. His second record for them in 1992 was his breakthrough album “Can You Fly”. He then signed to Elektra Records, & in 1994 worked with producer Butch Vig on the record “This Perfect World,” which featured the radio hit “Bad Reputation,” & earned him Rolling Stone’s Songwriter of the Year award for 1994. His songs were featured in the movies “Kingpin,” “Kicking & Screaming”, &“Heavy.” His most recent album is Back on the Road to You, released in 2022 on 40 Below Records. He lives in New Jersey. https://www.youtube.com/@freedyjohnston4087

Mary Lee Kortes is a musician and author based in Brooklyn, New York. She has released five albums of original material to wide critical acclaim, each of which landed on the Billboard critics’ top ten list in the year of its debut. Rolling Stone described her voice as having “the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.” She has toured the world both as a headliner and an opening act for established artists, including Dylan. Kortes is also a published short story writer. Dreaming of Dylan: 115 Dreams About Bob is her first book.

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