Location
Calumet, Michigan, 49913
About this event
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Recorded for radio in front of a live audience!
The Red Jacket Jamboree is an old-time radio variety show, sharing songs, stories and history of the copper country and beyond. Hosted by Lena Dorey and Martin Achatz, two-time Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, the show features the acclaimed Copper Cats, a 4 piece jazz band fronted by Jerry Younce on guitar and pianist Bill Carrothers. The show features musical guests (tbd), authors, and comedic sketches that the entire family can enjoy. Produced by Real People Media, the Red Jacket Jamboree, is distributed by PRX and can be heard on public radio stations throughout the U.S
Feauturing special guest Nellie McKay!
The fabulous Nellie McKay returns to The Red Jacket Jamboree for her third appearance! This diverse performer exploded on the music scene in 2004 with her debut double album, "Get Away from Me." Since then, she's released 6 more albums which range from classical jazz standards to her original tunes which showcase her quick wit and comedic style.
Nellie’s music has been heard on Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, Weeds, Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, Nurse Jackie, and SMILF, and she has appeared on TV shows including The Late Show with David Letterman, Conan, Ferguson, and The View. Nellie has made numerous radio appearances on NPR’s Mountain Stage, A Prairie Home Companion, eTown, and Marion McPartland’s Piano Jazz. The Chase Brock Experience produced a ballet of her third album, Obligatory Villagers, and she contributed the forward to the 20th anniversary edition of The Sexual Politics of Meat. Her writing has also appeared in The Onion, Interview and The New York Times Book Review.
She has won a Theatre World Award for her portrayal of Polly Peachum on Broadway in The Threepenny Opera, performed onscreen in the films PS I Love You and Downtown Express, and her music was used in Rumor Has It, Monster-in-Law, PS I Love You, Gasland, Last Holiday and Private Life.
McKay co-created and starred in the award-winning off-Broadway hit Old Hats and has written three acclaimed musical biographies – I Want to Live!, the story of Barbara Graham, third woman executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin, Silent Spring: It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature, an exploration of environmental pioneer Rachel Carson, and A GIRL NAMED BILL – The Life and Times of Billy Tipton, named one of the Best Concerts of 2014 by The New York Times. Her latest lady bio is The Big Molinsky – Considering Joan Rivers (“unpredictable, thrilling…sardonic wit..” – The New York Times).
