Peter Mulvey, Cock ‘n Bull Restaurant
Peter Mulvey is a veteran troubadour who has often played Caffe Lena on his visits to the region but this time switches stages for what is billed as a “premiere performance” at the venue’s performance space, an antique post-and-beam barn. Mulvey is the, ahem, main course for an autumn harvest dinner followed by musical opener Dietrich Strause and then Mulvey, whose website briskly summarizes his career: “Small shows led to larger shows, which eventually led to regional and then national and international touring. The wheels have not stopped since.’’ Indeed. The bio sums up Mulvey ’s creative output thusly: “Eighteen records, one illustrated book, thousands of live performances, a TEDX talk, a decades-long association with the National Youth Science Camp, opening for luminaries such as Ani Difranco, Emmylou Harby Joe Stalvey ris, and Chuck Prophet, appearances on NPR, an annual autumn tour by bicycle, emceeing festivals, hosting his own boutique festival (the Lamplighter Sessions, in Boston and Wisconsin)… Mulvey never stops. He has built his life’s work on collaboration and on an instinct for the eclectic and the vital. He folds everything he encounters into his work: poetr y, social justice, scientific literacy, and a deeply abiding humanism are all on plain display in his art.” Mulvey took an unusual approach to making his latest album, “There Is Another World,” released early this year. His website says that in 2017, “a series of upheavals found Mulvey living through a winter in a friend’s empty house in the small Midwestern town of Fort Atkinson. Unmoored and lost in the middle of his life, walking hours each day, sometimes with friends but most often alone, along the frozen marsh of the Bark river and through the wintry oak savannah nearby. The songs came in fast and strange and vivid.” His website, petermulvey. com, is featuring the album track “Fool’s Errand,” a steel g uitar-spiced bit of nostalgic life summation.
■ 7:30 p.m. thursday, oct. 10. $70 (includes 4 course dinner and the performance.) Cock ‘n Bull Restaurant, 5342 Parkis Mills Road, galway. 518-882-6962. thecocknbull.com.