Charlie King & The Prince Myshkins
Doors 7PM / Show 8PM
$20 ADV / $25 DOS
Seated Show
Charlie King is a musical storyteller and political satirist. He sings and writes passionately about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Pete Seeger hailed him as “One of the finest singers and songwriters of our time.”
The Prince Myshkins are a satirical cabaret/folk duo (Rick Burkhardt and Andy Gricevich, guitars, voices, and accordion) best described as “Kurt Weill meets the Muppets.” Sing Out! magazine claims: “Anyone who aspires to write political satire should hear this brilliant duo.”
Charlie and the Myshkins have been performing together across the U.S. for over 20 years, and have shared stages with artists such as Pete Seeger, Holly Near, John McCutcheon, Utah Phillips, Emma’s Revolution, Lou and Peter Berryman, Uncle Bonzai, and the Indigo Girls.
Charlie has been at the heart of American folk music since the early ‘60s and has been writing songs for half a century. In October of 2017 he received the annual Phil Ochs Award, in recognition of his music and activism for social and political justice. Other honors include: an "Indie" award for one of the top three folk recordings of 1984; the War Resisters League’s 1998 Peacemaker Award given to Charlie and Odetta; the 1999 Sacco-Vanzetti Social Justice Award for which he was nominated by Pete Seeger; and the 2014 Joe Hill Award, a lifetime achievement award for excellence in the field of labor culture. Charlie has recorded over twenty solo albums since 1976, as well as three albums with the touring ensemble Bright Morning Star, and numerous compilation albums with other artists.
The Prince Myshkins have toured the country with music and theater projects ranging from house concerts to full productions of their War-on-Terror-era adaptation of Brecht/Weill’s Threepenny Opera. Their original songs have appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition and Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now, and have been covered by folk, cabaret, jazz, punk, and rap musicians. This is a rare reunion concert for the Myshkins in Madison, where they both lived and performed during the 2000s (and where Andy still lives).