Godfrey’s Members’ Event featuring Ali McGuirk

PLEASE NOTE: The number of seats a member reserves corresponds to the membership level:
Solo – one seat; Duo – two seats; Ensemble, Sustainer, Patron, Impresario – up to four seats.
If your party is larger than your membership level accommodates, member-level upgrades are easily made. Just ask us at membership@godfreydaniels.org

Growing up just outside Boston, Ali McGuirk doesn’t remember a time when she didn’t want to be a singer. By college, after a couple decades of absorbing ’90s r&b,’70s singer-songwriters and classic soul of every era, McGuirk found her own aesthetic: earthy, pure, propelled by a voice capable of whispering dark truths or belting out big hooks on her originals. Boston responded with a wave of love. The Boston Globe named her an “artist to hear.” She racked up nominations and wins at both the Boston Music Awards and New England Music Awards. Her standing-room-only residency at Somerville’s Bull McCabe’s Pub delivered electric performances.

Ali will be performing songs from her latest CD, “Til it’s Gone.”

“I used to sing a lot of jazz and loved the ‘torch’ singers like Dinah Washington, Etta James, Sarah Vaughan, Abbey Lincoln, even though so many of the songs they sang felt anti-feminist to me,” McGuirk says. “Abbey Lincoln says a song is like a prayer, and you get what you put out and I found that to be true in my life. The idea that you can be a strong, independent feminist, and still suffer from the leftover feelings of a culture steeped in these historically unequal, gendered power dynamics is something that writing these songs has helped me process.” 

ENJOY THIS VIDEO OF ALI MCGUIRK PERFORMING “ALL BACK” FROM HER NEW ALBUM.