On June 22, 2023, English-American singer-songwriter Nellie McKay brought her unorthodox vibes to the Linda in Albany, wowing with a set split between piano and ukulele.

Review by Mark Hudson for Nippertown

The songs just kept on coming with stunning diversity, one moment McKay plaintively strumming her uke and singing “If I Fell” with heartbreaking fragility, the next, headbanging furiously as she pounded the keys with an incandescent blitz through “Compared to What.” Her performance of “Willow Weep for Me” was jaw-dropping in its intensity, starting out calmly and then doubling the time, her left hand a blur, hammering out the unstoppable bass figure.

– Mark Hudson for Nippertown