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Peter Mulvey with Chris O'Brien Friday, April 4, 2008 8:00 pm Tickets: $24.50
This is a CD Release party with the amazing Peter Mulvey showcasing his new release "Notes From Elsewhere". This is a new album as well as a greatest hits of sorts as Peter has re-recorded 17 songs from his back catalog in a solo acoustic format, so enjoy these fresh takes on some old favorites. Opening for Peter is a great up and coming singer songwriter, Chris O'Brien.
Peter Mulvey began as a self-described "city kid" from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He played, wrote, and sang in bands while studying theatre at Marquette University. After graduating, he traveled to Ireland, where he learned the trade of busker on the streets of Dublin. Returning to the U.S. a few years later, he settled in Boston, building an audience through street and subway performing, while also immersing himself in the thriving musical community. Since his 2000 release The Trouble with Poets, Mulvey has found a home with the venerable indie label Signature Sounds Recordings. His most recent albums for the Massachusetts label were the 2006 release The Knuckleball Suite, the 2004 release Kitchen Radio, the 2003 collaborative Redbird album (with label-mates Kris Delmhorst and Jeffrey Foucault), and his 2001 CD, Ten Thousand Mornings, an album of cover songs recorded entirely in the subways of Boston. MOJO described the album as "simultaneously Mulvey's homage to his one-time training ground and a beautifully atmospheric record of gifted interpretations." "The subtle power of his voice, a husky, hushed baritone... understated, at once sophisticated and intimate... as cover-worthy as Randy Newman, Elvis Costello and Dar Williams." - THE WASHINGTON POST "Peter Mulvey is consistently the most original and dynamic of the US singer-songwriters to tour these shores… A phenomenal performer with huge energy, a quick fire, quirky take on life, and an extraordinary guitar style… a joy to see." - THE IRISH TIMES ________________________________________________ Boston based singer/songwriter Chris O'Brien is an artist on the rise. Since the release of his CD "Lighthouse," Chris has caught the attention of many. He was chosen from a pool of nearly 1,000 contestants to appear on Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion" in the "People in Their Twenties" talent contest, he was one of Falcon Ridge Folk Festival's Emerging Artists, and also was also a finalist in the Mountain Stage New Song competition and on the local Boston front Chris headlined at Club Passim.
"Chris O’Brien picks up where Richard Thompson, John Gorka and Martin Sexton leave off; a young writer with his eyes on gentle, melodic horizons and matter of the soul." - CLUB PASSIM
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