Loudon Wainwright III and Nellie McKay to Play the Landmark on Main

Landmark on Main Street welcomes the return of two much-loved performers to the Jeanne Rimsky Theater on Saturday, October 1 at 8 PM. Both are highly respected not only for the quality of their voices, but for the masterful songwriting that so powerfully gives voice to their beliefs and ideals.

Grammy Award-winner Loudon Wainwright III's recording career started in 1970 and now includes 25 albums. The latest is Older Than My Old Man Now, which employs Wainwright's unique mix of poignancy and devastating wit to examine aging. Also an accomplished actor, Wainwright has appeared in films directed by Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby, Christopher Guest, Tim Burton, Cameron Crowe, and Judd Apatow, and can next be seen in the independent film Pleased To Meet Me. His new one-man-play entitled Surviving Twin was hailed by the New Yorker as "funny and touching, ceaselessly clever and scarily talented."

Nellie McKay has just finished an extended run in the off-Broadway award-winning hit Old Hats, and has written two acclaimed musical biographies, "Silent Spring: It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature" and "I Want to Live!" Nellie produced her critically acclaimed, debut double album Get Away From Me with Beatles' engineer Geoff Emerick, followed by Pretty Little Head, Obligatory Villagers, Normal as Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day, ("among the killer overhauls of American standards" - The New York Times), and her latest, Home Sweet Mobile Home.

Tickets for Loudon Wainwright III & Nellie McKay are on sale through Landmark's Box Office, 516-767-6444 and online at www.landmarkonmainstreet.org. Premium $57 (Friends $52), Select $47 (Friends $42), Standard $42 (Friends $37) *.