NEW JERSEY STAGE: Shannon McNally and Arlan Feiles To Perform At Watermark Cafe

(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- Shannon McNally will perform at Watermark Cafe in Asbury Park on Tuesday, May 23 at 7:00pm with special guest Arlan Feiles.  McNally is releasing her blues-Americana album, Black Irish, on June 9 via Compass Records. Produced by Americana icon Rodney Crowell, the album is the result of years of hardship and finding hope through a musical counterpart. Tickets are $18.

After going through what she calls “a miserable divorce,” raising her daughter Maeve, and nursing her terminally ill mother Maureen. Her parents had relocated to Holly Springs, Mississippi, and McNally moved in, caring for her mom until her death in 2015. What saved her was her email relationship with Crowell, who’d been talking about producing her since 2012. Together the two wrote songs and exchanged cover ideas until Black Irish was born.

Born in New York but simultaneously roughed up and refined by New Orleans and Mississippi, McNally has cut a singular path through the musical landscape - one that includes a Grammy nomination and a place on the stage with a who's who of rock, country and soul: Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Bonnie Raitt, Vince Gill, Levon Helm, Dr. John, Bobby Rush, Derek Trucks, and most recently, Americana legend Rodney Crowell who took the producer's chair for her upcoming release on Compass Records, a collection of transcendent folk-blues and country-rock songs that are poised to solidify her place as a peerless Americana songwriter and performer.

Arlan Feiles is an award winning Singer Songwriter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Music Producer. Discovered and mentored by the late great Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Record Producer Tom Dowd, Arlan has gone on to record several highly acclaimed records and has his music heard in many TV programs and movies, including the Academy award winning film the Dallas Buyers Club. Arlan is equally known for his efforts supporting voting and civil rights. 

The two have a long history together with McNally added backing vocals to Arlan's beautiful "Drifted Town" on his Razing a Nation album from 2004.