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Healing Project Features Peter Mulvey at Caffé Tlazo

National touring artist Peter Mulvey will take the stage at Caffé Tlazo in Algoma on Feb. 28 at 7:30 pm as part of The Healing Project of Door County.

The Good Stuff, Mulvey’s fifteenth record, is a collection of standards, which promptly rejects the accepted definition of “standard” in favor of a more vivid, open approach. The music of Tom Waits is right there with Duke Ellington; Willie Nelson next to Thelonious Monk; Jolie Holland juxtaposed with Bill Frisell. Mulvey (along with his band, the Crumbling Beauties) address each tune with a true artist’s touch. His mirthful, gravelly baritone is front and center from moment one, and every track is a master class in restraint, phrasing and commitment.

Twenty-odd years on the road, performing songs from his own catalog and from a vast, varied, and deep well of classic and obscure covers, has prepared Mulvey to deliver this collection – The Good Stuff. Night after night, the process of divining the heart of a song, being alert to where the moment can lead, has shaped him as an artist. To each rendition, he brings the soul of a singer, a light touch in a heavy world. Recorded in just three days at Signature Sounds Studios in the Connecticut woods, the performances feature upright bassist Paul Kochanksi, violinist Randy Sabien, guitarist David Goodrich and drummer Jason Smith. The arrangements run from quintet-in-full-swing down to hushed trio.

A percentage of all ticket sales will go toward the The Healing Project of Door County. The Healing Project is a collaboration between Ministry Door County Medical Center and the Community Clinic of Door County that provides free integrative health care services to men and women of Door County living with cancer.

Fifteen minutes before the show Dr. Nathan Hayes from North Shore Medical Clinic will give a demonstration of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door. For reservations call 920.493.5979.