Nellie McKay

Nellie McKay transformed The Linda into an intimate piano bar situated somewhere in Greenwich Village, Harlem, or maybe even Montmartre on Thursday night.

Nellie McKay Live In Concert In the USA

She tapped out tracks from her new album, Obligatory Villagers, along with a scattering of blues covers, several works-in-progress, favorites from her debut CD, Get Away From Me, and some bizarre theatrics.

There were many series regulars, a lot of them unfamiliar with McKay and her unique brand of jazzy music.

I can still vividly remember walking into a big box store and purchasing a CD of Get Away From Me, the amazing double album debut of Nellie McKay. I had seen the album online on some random message board thread heralding the best albums of 2004. The cover's unlikely combination of visuals grabbed me. McKay, w

Similarly, Friday night’s unaccompanied return concert at Natasha’s offered a perhaps ideal way of examining (and enjoying) the opposing styles, themes and performance strategies behind her songs.

Or it could have been the stage artist that reflected the lightness of a cabaret singer and the lyrical severity of an aware activist.