Nellie McKay | The Chapel Restoration
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Jazz at the Chapel presents Nellie McKay.
Nellie McKay has released an eclectic bunch of critically acclaimed albums, her songs and sound ranging from jazz to pop to indefinable, and with her latest, HEY GUYS, WATCH THIS, ably assisted by The Carpenter Ants, she taps into the soulful sounds of West Virginia. Coming soon, GET AWAY FROM ME demos on Omnivore Records.
As well as acting in the films
PS I Love You
and
Downtown Express
, Nellie provided music for
Rumor Has It
,
Monster-In-Law
,
Last Holiday
,
Gasland
,
Private Life
, and
PS I Love
You
. Her TV appearances include David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, The View, and Jimmy Dore, and her music has been heard on
Mad Men
,
Weeds
,
Boardwalk Empire
,
Grey's Anatomy
,
NCIS
, and
Nurse Jackie
.
She's won a Broadway Theatre World Award for Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera, co-created/starred in off-Broadway's Old Hats, created musical biographies of Barbara Graham, Rachel Carson, Joan Rivers, & Billy Tipton ('Best Concerts of the Year' - The New York Times). Most recently, she was nominated for an Ovation Award for her performance in Ethan Coen's A Play is a Poem at the Mark Taper Forum.
Nellie is a recipient of PETA's Humanitarian Award for her dedication to animal rights, and she is a vocal critic of endless war, capitalism, & the two-party system that sustains them.
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