Jon Langford and Kelly Hogan With Special Guest Michael Cerveris!

Join us Wednesday, May 6 @ 7 p.m. at Marigny Studios for a special evening of songs and stories with Jon Langford (Mekons, Waco Brothers) and Kelly Hogan (Mavis Staples, Neko Case) with special guest Michael Cerveris (Loose Cattle) in a rare solo performance!

This is a listening room show. Advance tickets recommended. Ticket price includes sales tax and Eventbrite fees.

This intimate evening takes place at , located in the heart of New Orleans' Faubourg Marigny District and home to countless recording sessions by artists like the Afghan Whigs, Galactic, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Cha Wa, St Vincent, My Morning Jacket, among many others.

A full bar is available. Because this is a listening room show, advanced tickets are strongly recommended. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

This special evening is produced in solidarity with

Fresh off her Sunday night Jazz Fest appearance with Mavis Staples, Kelly Hogan began singing as a child in Atlanta, and performed in bar bands while still in high school -- offering heartfelt versions of classics like “Stormy Weather” and “Trouble In Mind” -- but her creative trajectory was truly formed in her twenties in a ramshackle community of dilapidated Atlanta row houses called Cabbagetown. This rough and tumble neighborhood, built to accommodate Appalachian mill workers, provided cheap housing and a sense of freedom and camaraderie for the city’s impoverished creative community.

Out of this landscape came Hogan’s first band, The Jody Grind -- purveyors of a unique and intoxicating mix of cabaret, country, jazz, and punk -- featuring Hogan’s soulful voice alongside talented instrumentalist-songwriter Bill Taft. The Jody Grind soon became torchbearers for the Cabbagetown scene, were heralded by R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe and released two influential albums before meeting an untimely end. Hogan followed with a stint playing guitar and singing back-up in the raucous rock and roll outfit The Rock*A*Teens before releasing a solo album of her own titled The Whistle Only Dogs Can Hear. All Music proclaimed Hogan “a talent to watch.”

In 1997, Hogan relocated to Chicago and briefly attempted to quit music, but soon failed miserably. Within months she began singing as much as she could. In 1998, she joined the band of celebrated singer-songwriter Neko Case — a venture she describes as "finding my family,” and, in the ensuing Chicago years, Hogan released two additional solo albums for Bloodshot Records.

She also toured and recorded with a number of artists including Jakob Dylan, Otis Clay, Tortoise, Andrew Bird, the Decemberists, Silkworm, Alejandro Escovedo, Drive-By Truckers, the Mekons, among many others. Her Chicago-based band The Flat Five have released two critically acclaimed albums of country, soul, and pop tunes, as well as originals by cult songwriter Chris Ligon.

Since 2010, she has been an official member of the Mavis Staples band. The partnership started during the production of Staples’ Grammy-winning album, You Are Not Alone, which was produced by Jeff Tweedy and recorded at Wilco's studio in Chicago.

Her album Iis a powerful and moving testament to Hogan's talent and years spent dedicated to music. And it is from all these accumulated experiences that she has selected a set of enchanting songs from renowned artists met along the way. She's sung with them (Andrew Bird, Jon Wesley Harding, M. Ward, Jon Langford), she's performed and recorded their songs (Jack Pendarvis, The Magnetic Fields, Vic Chesnutt), she's toured with them (Robyn Hitchcock), and some are inspiring friends and neighbors (The Handsome Family, Catherine Irwin of Freakwater).

Since the mid-1980s, Langford has been a key figure in the nexus between country and punk rock, as well as a vital collaborator with a wealth of musicians from around the world.

Born in Newport, Wales, Langford's career began in 1976 when he founded the leftist punk band , and he would continue to record with them for the next five decades as they detoured into folk, electronic music, country rock, and any number of other styles. After relocating to the United States in the1990s, he formed the celebrated alt-country band

From an early age, Langford had an artistic bent and an interest in politics, and when he relocated to Leeds, England to study art at the University of Leeds, he fell in with a group of fellow students who had been emboldened by the burgeoning punk/new wave scene. With Tom Greenhalgh, Langford co-founded The Mekons. Langford was originally the group's drummer, but as various members dropped out and were replaced, he moved to guitar and became one of the group's vocalists and songwriters. Originally a purposefully sloppy punk band fascinated with the politics of daily life, began to expand creatively by the time they released their debut album in 1979, The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen, exploring folk and electronic sounds before they went on hiatus in 1982. Langford soon formed a new combo, the guitar-and-drum machine provocateurs The Three Johns that released seven albums. Langford's passion for classic country music had caught on with the new lineup, and their next three albums -- Fear and Whiskey (1985), The Edge of the World (1986), and Mekons Honky Tonkin' (1987) -- would fuse raucous roadhouse country with angular rock music and clever political observations.

During this period, the Mekons developed a cult following in the United States; not surprisingly, several members of the band relocated here, and in the early 1990s, Langford settled in Chicago. With the Mekons and as a solo artist, Langford continued to record for independent labels Touch and Go and Bloodshot Records.

His artwork is shown throughout the United States and Europe with shows at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, World Tattoo in Chicago, La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, and Yard Dog in Austin. In New Orleans, his artwork is represented by LeMieux Galleries.

Michael first picked up a guitar at age 11 and figured out how to play it along the way. Starting with his junior high rock band, Ukiah, his early musical outings were notable more for their volume than any discernible musicality.

In his early career, Michael has performed as a guitarist and singer with Bob Mould, Pete Townshend, Frank Black, Teenage Fanclub, The Breeders, Ken Stringfellow, Anders Parker, Laura Cantrell and many others on stages ranging from CBGBs, Sin E, Mercury Lounge, Bowery Ballroom, Irving Plaza, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Preservation Hall, and Carnegie Hall.

His day job as an actor landed him on Broadway 11 times working with everyone from Pete Townshend, T-Bone Burnett, Elton John and Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters to Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber and John Cameron Mitchell (and resulting in a Grammy and two Tony awards), in films with Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini, and John C Reilly (sadly not all in the same film), and on the television series Mindhunter, Fringe, The Gilded Age, The Plot Against America, Gotham, The Tick, Mosaic, The Good Wife, and HBO’s Tremé.

With creative partner Kimberly Kaye, Michael formed the Americana band , which recently released the highly acclaimed , produced by John Agnello on released on Single Lock Records out of Muscle Shoals.

The album finds the band moving on from their earlier countryfied reexaminations of other writers’ songs and taking on powerful new identities as songwriters. Loose Cattle includes Rurik Nunan (fiddle) and the powerhouse Iguanas rhythm section: Rene Coman (bass), and Doug Garrison (drums). The album features guest appearances by Lucinda Williams, Patterson Hood and Jay Gonzalez of Drive-By Truckers, and Louis Michot of the Grammy-winning Cajun band Lost Bayou Ramblers.

Loose Cattle has appeared multiple times (including this year!) at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, French Quarter Fest, NPR’s Mountain Stage and Lincoln Center’s American Songbook.

Info: times are approximate

Info: times are approximate

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Marigny Studios, 535 Marigny Street, New Orleans, United States

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