Rear Window welcomes singer Kelley McRae
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Kelley McRae actually kind of stumbled into music. She was studying acting at Southern Methodist University in Dallas when an elective changed the course of her life.
“I took a guitar class junior year because I had to have an elective,” said McRae, “I just started writing songs incessantly. By the time I graduated with this acting degree, I was pretty sure I wanted to be a musician.”
With that knowledge, McRae packed up and moved to New York City, and landed on a small independent record label.
In 2011 McRae had been married a year to Matt Castelein, the only other member of her band, which consists of only two voices and two acoustic guitars, and she jokingly suggested they “live in a hippie van and go pursue our music.”
“I said it as kind of a joke,” she said, “and he was like ‘why not?’”
That was exactly what they did. On something of a whim, the two sold everything they owned, jumped in a Volkswagen camper van, and took to the road, where they play in listening rooms all over the world. The pair has sold out the Bluebird Cafe, one of Nashville’s most popular spots, and have travelled Europe, delivering their acoustic Americana music to standing-room-only crowds.
On Nov. 5, Kelley McRae will make their first appearance in Ganado at the Rear Window Listening Room at 8 p.m. McRae said she loves listening rooms, and her booking agent seeks them out for the duo.
“The places we like to play are places where they have a passion for live music and want to bring that to their community,” she said, “and sometimes that’s in a huge city like New York or Berlin, and sometimes that's in a small town in the middle of Germany or Texas.”
Tickets to the show can be purchased at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2432755 or by calling 1-800-838-3006. More information can be found at www.rearwindowlisteningroom.com.
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