Music
Press
"Mesnik brings beguiling warmth." - Variety
Discography
Campaign Songs and Family Dysfunction. "Election in Jungletown 1912" (Youtube)
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Bio
Bringing 25+ years of broadway, film, and television experience to the concert stage, this unique storyteller delivers gently ironic folk tales with an R&B inflection.
Bill Mesnik has also created several genre-bending musical theater pieces, including his drama about blacklisted folk-singers, "Three Songs" (garnering Critic’s Choice - L.A. Times, and Best Ensemble - LA Weekly Awards), "Songs of Indolence and Expedience," "Bill Mesnik Sings the Newspaper,"
"Warning: Explicit Lyrics"- based on Anais Nin’s “Delta of Venus"), and "Muckrakers, An Evening of Presidential Campaign Songs and Family Dysfunction"- released as an album in 2000.
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