McGonigel's Mucky Duck

Texas Johnny Boy
May 28

7 PM

 

Texas Johnny Boy is an old school rhythm n’ blues vocalist as well as a multi-instrumentalist who plays harmonica, saxophones and flute.  An eclectic old school R&B bluesician.

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Christina Marrs and the Golden Arm Trio

May 28 9:30 pm

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For seventeen years Christina Marrs led the indefinable underground darlings Asylum Street Spankers. Over nine remarkable albums, the group evolved from a country-blues revival show to one of the most innovative and adventurous acoustic ensembles of their time. Their genre defying catalog includes Mommy Says No! one of the most honored family albums of 2007, Spanker Madness, a poignant and pointed anti-prohibition classic and God’s Favorite Band, an "agnostic gospel” album produced by Christina, which was named “Best Gospel Album 2010” in the Independent Music Awards. 

Widely considered one of the greatest live acts of the last decade, the Spankers regularly toured Europe and Japan, played clubs, theaters and festivals across the United States, released two concert films on DVD and a live album of their 2008 Off Broadway revue What? And Give Up Show Biz? The Last Laugh, a live album and documentary of their three night farewell stand in their hometown of Austin is slated for release this fall. 

As a writer and arranger, Christina Marrs is known for songs that sit easily among Tin Pan Alley, Brill Building and R&B classics. “Breathin’” and “No Song Sad Enough” are regularly covered by jazz, cabaret and pop vocalists and are gradually entering the standards canon. Her songs “Sidekick” and “Be Like You” have become touchstones in children’s music. A multi-instrumentalist, Christina plays banjo, tenor banjo, ukulele and guitar. She is also an accomplished musical saw player and vocal arranger. 

Graham Reynolds and The Golden Arm Trio 

Composer/bandleader Graham Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs and concert halls with collaborators ranging from Richard Linklater and DJ Spooky to the Rude Mechs and the Austin Symphony Orchestra. With the jazz-based but far reaching Golden Arm Trio, Reynolds has repeatedly toured the country and released four critically acclaimed albums. 

As Co-Artistic Director of Golden Hornet Project with Peter Stopschinski, Reynolds has produced more than fifty concerts of world-premier alt-classical music by more than sixty composers, as well as five symphonies, two concertos and countless chamber pieces of his own. Reynolds music has been heard through-out the world on TV, in films and on radio, from HBO to the Cannes Film Festival to the BBC and on NPR’s All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, and Marketplace.

His score to the 2006 Robert Downey, Jr. feature A Scanner Darkly was named the #1 Best Soundtrack of the Decade by Cinema Retro magazine. Upcoming works include the score to Bernie, a Jack Black/Shirley MacLaine feature, and an instrumental hip-hop soundtrack for PBS/CPB funded documentary The Learning, filmed in the Philippines and Baltimore. In January 2011, Reynolds simultaneously released two albums on Innova Recordings. DUKE! Three Portrait of Ellington explores America’s greatest composer from three perspectives. The Difference Engine: A Triple Concerto is a recording of Reynolds’ symphonic piece for cello, violin and piano backed by string orchestra. 

 

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