A Milwaukee native, McCurdy travels across Illinois, Minnesota and his home state performing original cabaret-influenced songs and conversations about humorous topics.,”Whether "Weird Al'' Yankovic chants another parody song or Gallagher demolishes his millionth watermelon, singer-songwriter Pat McCurdy spins unique hilarity and musical entertainment worth seeing again and again.
A Milwaukee native, McCurdy travels across Illinois, Minnesota and his home state performing original cabaret-influenced songs and conversations about humorous topics. McCurdy previously amused national audiences during college tours with concerts soaked in audience participation.
"In the past I performed nationally with college tours," McCurdy said. "Now it's currently just the Midwest area with around 27 to 29 live shows a month."
After his last albums Fainting With Happiness and My World of Love spurned constant jumping-around, catchy lyrics amid hilarious shows, McCurdy returns to the record studio with his newest independent album, 15 Favorites.
"It's basically the same concept as the rest of my albums, but there's more singing in it and some fun overdubbing as well," McCurdy said. "I'm going to keep recording music as well, but the next album is a live album."
Although McCurdy will visit the Miller Time Pub, 509 W. Wisconsin Ave., Nov. 14 and Club Paragon, 3578 S. 108th St., Nov. 25, he has not visited the Milwaukee area music halls as often as other surrounding states' establishments.
"The Milwaukee area is not a really friendly place for music," McCurdy said. "I really don't want to be playing at these small coffee houses or cafés and such."
McCurdy said he also laments the decreasing amount of singer-songwriters in the music industry. Bands like the New Pornographers and Of Montreal gladden McCurdy because of their original songs and interesting musical productions.
"Song writing is a dying craft and it's just not as interesting now," McCurdy said. "Of Montreal has music that I can hum along to. It's really interesting to listen to and in my own songs I try to keep it interesting too. I work on (my songs) hard."
Check out McCurdy's Web site for an up to date concert schedule.
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