Double-billing at the Local Music Project

Genesee Ted and Invisible Rendezvous to perform at the Colgate Inn on Tuesday beginning at 7p.m.

NELSON, N.Y. >> Peter Mulvey is a veteran singer and songwriter from Milwaukee, Wis., who began his career on the streets of Dublin, Ireland, as a busker, and from there moved on to performing in the subways and streets of Boston, Mass. This led to his first record deal and a leap to full-time national and international touring, beginning in the early ‘90s, and brings him to the Nelson Odeon on Sunday at 7 p.m.

Mulvey is an iconoclast within the singer/songwriter world. Restless and inventive, he has made 17 records, spanning rock and roll, folk, jazz, spoken word, and Americana. A long-standing gig at the National Youth Science Camp led to a spoken word piece, “Vlad the Astrophysicist,” which became a TEDx talk, and then an illustrated book. In 2007, he began an annual late summer tour by bicycle instead of by car and airplane - the 10th annual bicycle tour will happen this September. He has taught songwriting and guitar workshops at the Swannanoa Gather- ing and at various folk festivals across the U.S.

In 2015, “Take Down Your Flag”, his song about the victims of the shooting at the AME Emanuel Church in Charleston, reached 200,000 people when many songwriters, including Ani DiFranco, Anais Mitchell, Keb’ Mo, Paula Cole, and Jeff Daniels, re-wrote the middle verse and posted their own videos of the song. This movement led to an online benefit concert, and a deepening of the friendship between Mulvey and DiFranco.

Early in 2016 DiFranco produced “Are You Listening?,” Mulvey’s 17th record.

Mulvey continues to tour, playing more than 100 shows a year as he has for the past 25 years. This is the core of what he does: music, in a room, performed for a live audience.

Tickets are $20. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 315655-9193, email info@nelsonodeon.com, or visit http://nelsonodeon.com.

The Nelson Odeon is located at 4035 Nelson Road, Nelson.

PHOTO COURTESY THE NELSON ODEON Peter Mulvey will perform at the Nelson Odeon on Sunday, April 2, 2017, at 7p.m.