SimpleGifts featuring Billy McLaughlin present The Young and The Rest
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Show
$25 Advance Reserved Preferred Seating
$20 Advance General Admission
All Ages
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The Parkway Theater requires Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test Result for entry to all events.
"The Young and The Rest" is all about women bringing new life to music made famous by men.
Clearly a tribute, this show is better described as a girl-power reboot of acoustic hits and deep tracks by Neil Young, CSN, America, The Eagles, and more.
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).
Of special note, SimpleGifts' founding member Carin Vagle, a Parkway neighborhood vocalist legend, returns to the stage for the first time since 2012!
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