pat mAcdonald

His latest album, Troubadour of Stomp, pays tribute to mAcdonald’s rock and swamp blues roots. No Depression magazine describes it as “a dozen brazen new songs, packed with MacDonalds lusty, low-end guitars, stormy harmonica and falsetto singing, and some of the best wordplay in American music.”

mAcdonald, a native of Green Bay, is well known for his 1986 hit “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades,” and since then he has performed with several high-profile musicians such as Stewart Copeland, Imogen Heap, Cher and Peter Frampton.

Armed with his stomp-board, mAcdonald is mesmerizing live. He accompanies himself on vocals, guitar and harmonica – a one-man movement of sound. His songs are gritty, gut-wrenching, and lyrically enlightened. The Milwaukee Journal wrote, “underneath his gritty primitivism lie the keen wit and askew observations of a man who can’t, or won’t, shut off his mind.”

Currently, mAcDonald is based in Sturgeon Bay. He will be performing at the helm of the Steel Bridge SongFest, which he helped start in 2005, this June.

http://www.myspace.com/patmacdonald

Upcoming Shows:

June 13 & 14 – Steel Bridge SongFest 4

July 5 – The Hitching Post