The Cedar Presents
PETER MULVEY + SUSAN WERNER
Friday, April 26, 2024 / Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
All Ages
Seated
$30 Advance, $35 Day of Show
This is a seated show with general admission, first-come-first-served seating. The Cedar is happy to reserve seats for patrons who require special seating accommodations. To request seating or other access accommodations, please go to our Access page.
General Admission tickets are available online.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Having separately played The Cedar with other co-bill partners, we are honored to present this pairing for the first time as they tour together in all of their acoustic glory. Peter Mulvey, self-described as a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur, and almost-poet since before he can remember...Susan Werner has earned a reputation as “one of the most innovative songwriters working today”. Together they make for a contemporary folk dream team for a Friday spring night!
Peter Mulvey performing “Jesus Wants to Take Your Guns Away” courtesy of Peter Mulvey’s YouTube Channel.
Susan Werner performing on lives tream courtesy of Susan Werner’s YouTube Channel.
About PETER MULVEY
Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur, and almost-poet since before he can remember. In 1989 he spent a year in Ireland, busking on the streets of Dublin and hitchhiking to whatever gigs he could find. Back stateside, he spent a couple years gigging through the bars of his native Midwest before taking off for Boston, where he returned to subway busking and coffeehouses. Small shows led to larger shows, which eventually led to regional and then national touring. The wheels have not stopped since.
Twenty albums, one illustrated book, thousands of live performances, a TEDx talk, a decades-long association with the National Youth Science Camp, opening tours and gigs for luminaries such as Ani DiFranco, Greg Brown, Emmylou Harris and Chuck Prophet, appearances on NPR, an annual autumn tour by bicycle, emceeing festivals, hosting his own Lamplighter Sessions for years in Boston and in Wisconsin… he has built his life’s work on collaboration, on an instinct for the eclectic and the vital.
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About Susan Werner
Over the course of her twenty-five-year career, Susan Werner has earned a reputation as “one of the most innovative songwriters working today” (Chicago Tribune). With formidable chops on guitar (she began playing at age 5) and piano (she was a guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz), along with a graduate degree in voice performance, her shows are a one-woman master class in musicianship. Although best known as an acoustic songwriter that came up through coffeehouses and folk festivals, the Chicago-based artist has written songs in the style of Gershwin and Cole Porter (I Can’t Be New, 2004), gospel music (The Gospel Truth, 2007), traditional Cuban “son” (An American In Havana, 2016), and New Orleans junk piano (NOLA, 2019). In 2014 she composed the music and lyrics to the musical theater score Bull Durham, The Musical (MGM). Her songs have been recorded by Tom Jones, Michael Feinstein, and Shemekia Copeland, and her latest recording of originals, The Birds of Florida, took flight in 2022.
“(Werner is) a songwriter and musician who is in such complete command of her gifts that it’s almost scary.” — All Music Guide
"When it comes to crafting a song, Ms. Werner’s only peers are Jimmy Webb and Paul Simon.” — No Depression
“Susan Werner, a clever songwriter and an engaging performer, brings literacy and wit back to popular song.” — The New Yorker
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