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SimpleGifts featuring Billy McLaughlin // 3rd Annual Harvest at The Parkway: A Tribute to Neil Young

  • The Parkway Theater 4814 Chicago Ave Minneapolis MN 55417 USA (map)

Tuesday, September 17, 2024
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Show
All Ages

  • $45 (+taxes/fees) VIP Seating (includes premium seating and pre-show reception from 6-6:30 pm)

  • $30 (+taxes/fees) Preferred Reserved Seating

  • $25 (+taxes/fees) Advance General Admission // $30 (+taxes/fees) At The Door

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Celebrate the Harvest season at the Third Annual “Harvest at The Parkway,” a celebration of Neil Young’s iconic albums Harvest and Harvest Moon, presented by SimpleGifts featuring Billy McLaughlin

On the night of this year’s Harvest Moon, the beloved songs of Neil Young shimmer anew under the spell of siren-voices Carin Vagle, Karen Paurus, and Amy Curtis. Ladies singing Neil Young? Yes — and loving it! 

A Celtic twist is added by renowned wind-powered artist Laura MacKenzie, along with acoustic guitar by Billy McLaughlin — and Dan Ristrom (bass), Patrick Nelson (drums), Billy O (percussion), Lisa Z (piano), and Nathan Wilson (fiddle/mandolin).

The siren-voices of SimpleGifts (Carin Vagle, Karen Paurus, and Amy Courts) soar with a Celtic twist (Laura MacKenzie on whistles/flutes/bagpipe), along with acoustic guitar (Billy McLaughlin), bass guitar (Dan Ristrom), drums (Patrick Nelson), percussion (Billy O), and fiddle & mandolin (Nathan Wilson).

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Billy McLaughlin has been changing people’s idea of what an acoustic guitar can sound like since the 1980’s. He is recognized as an innovative performer and composer who embraces the advantages of acoustic guitar amplification, unorthodox techniques and altered tunings while celebrating a gift for melody. His enormous yet fluid acoustic guitar tone has carried him around the world, to Billboard’s Top-Ten Chart and most recently through a devastating medical disorder called focal dystonia. McLaughlin has had to re-learn the guitar left-handed and is in the early stages of what might be described as ‘one of the great musical-comeback stories of all time.” His story is the subject of an award-winning documentary film called Changing Keys – Billy McLaughlin and the Mysteries of Dystonia.

“…you may swear Billy McLaughlin is two of the greatest acoustic guitarists you’ve ever heard.” — Pittsburgh Post Gazette
“… it’s amazing that such an extensive sound comes from one instrument.”
— Chicago Sun Times

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