Small Star Seminar is the first solo music project created by Cory McAbee. You may remember Cory's three popular feature films at Indie Memphis: 'The American Astronaut', 'Stingray Sam' and 'Crazy & Thief'.
$10 - General Admission
$8 - Indie Memphis Members (see email for code)
The performance features a singing motivational speaker who urges people to give up their goals, stop reaching for the stars and to start looking for the stars within their own minds. The set features optimistic songs about quitting, accepting one’s own limitations, and the power of sitting quietly. As an encore McAbee will address the theory of “Deep Astronomy” and answer questions from the audience. This tour is being documented for use in an upcoming feature film, written and directed by Cory McAbee. Audience participation is welcome.
For details visit http://corymcabee.net.
“Indebted equally to Scott Walker's bile-drenched crooning, Frank Zappa's twisted surrealism, and Harry Nilsson's deceptively sing-song melodicism”
- New York Magazine
“Like co-productions of Kurt Weill and Neil Young”
- The Village Voice
“Experience the marvelous oddity of Cory McAbee's Small Star Seminar”
- TWITCH FILM
“a contrary manifesto on conformism.”
- WROCLAW.PL (Poland)
“Cory McAbee, the ingenious, idiosyncratic talent”
- Fimmaker Magazine (USA)
“Cory McAbee is something of a renaissance man. ... the concept album Small Star Seminar explores self-help culture and the American psyche.”
- Hymn (Sweden)
Cory McAbee “is on fire. A very polite fire, but a fire nonetheless.”
- OZY Media (USA)
“Cory McAbee lives his life as a real work of fiction.”
- Brasileiros (Brazil)
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