Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham
Biography Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham
Andrew Bird
is an internationally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, whistler, and songwriter. Since beginning his recording career in 1997, Bird has released 18 albums and performed extensively across the globe, headlining concerts at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and festivals worldwide. Bird has been a featured TED Talks presenter, a New Yorker Festival guest, and an op-ed contributor for the New York Times. He performed as the Whistling Caruso in Disney's The Muppets and scored the FX Series Baskets. Shortly after receiving his 2020 Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album, with My Finest Work Yet, Bird made his professional acting debut in the cast of Fargo's fourth season. Bird’s latest album, Sunday Morning Put-On (2024), finds him re-immersed in a lifelong love of mid-century, small group jazz and the Great American Songbook.
Madison Cunningham
is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist putting "a new spin on West Coast folk-rock, with classical tendencies, electric guitars, jazz-school chord changes and alt-rock strut all living under the same roof.” (Rolling Stone)
Cunningham’s 2019 debut, Who Are You Now, was nominated for Best Americana Album at the Grammys and hinted at things to come. Her 2020 covers EP Wednesday captured her range and influences with renditions of songs by Tom Waits, John Mayer, the Beatles, and Radiohead.
But it’s on her 2022 release, Revealer, where she finds her stride. The album is a warts-and-all self-portrait of a young artist full of doubt and uncertainty yet bursting with exciting ideas about music and life. Full of confessions, intimations, and hard truths, this soaring set of songs took home the Grammy for Best Folk Album in 2023.
