PORT TOWNSEND — Nellie McKay will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Rainshadow Recording in Building 315 at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend.
Tickets are $30 per person at www.ticketstorm.com/c/17038/rainshadowrecording or $35 at the door.
McKay is a jazz pianist and vocalist who has also performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, and her music has graced the soundtracks of numerous movies and television shows.
She will perform solo and accompany herself on Rainshadow’s 7-foot Steinway as well as on ukulele.
McKay recently released “Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos,” an 18-track collection of demo recordings that led to McKay’s 2004 debut album, “Get Away From Me.”
Composed, performed and produced by McKay, the demos were recorded in 2002 and sold by McKay as a series of handmade CD-Rs.
“I was attracted to the lyrics immediately,” said Geoff Emerick, who produced the original album. “Her level of maturity at such a young age is astounding. You come across an artist of this caliber once every 10 or 15 years. And I don’t do a lot of projects these days unless something really stands out, like this did.”
The new collection, sequenced identically to her debut with three unreleased bonus songs, is available on streaming, CD and as a two-record LP set on Omnivore Recordings.
For more information, call the studio at 360-301-0291 or email centrumrecording@gmail.com.
