Kevin McHugh (musician)
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| Kevin McHugh | ||
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 Kevin McHugh performing at the House of Jazz and Blues, Shanghai
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| Born | October 8, 1982 | |
| Genre(s) | Jazz, experimental, electronic | |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, keyboards, voice, laptop | |
| Label(s) | Hagen Records | |
| Website | www.therealmchugh.com | |
Pianist and composer Kevin McHugh has performed in a variety of groups and with notable musicians including the drummer Billy Hart, saxophonist Gary Bartz (both members of Miles Davis groups), Marcus Belgrave, Jovino Santos-Neto (flutist and pianist for Hermeto Pascoal), Robin Eubanks, Peter Evans, Salah Ragab (Egyptian drummer for Sun Ra), Andy Hunter, Zé de Riba, and Coco, the Chinese jazz diva. Besides working on solo electronic music, ballet accompaniment, and musical improv, Kevin was also the keyboardist for the experimental metal band Capillary Action.
Kevin McHugh has lived around the world in cities including Seattle, New York, Shanghai, Berlin, São Paulo, and Cairo, performing as a leader or sideman in venues including Benaroya Hall, The Bop Stop, Nighttown, Smoke, The Fat Cat, and a three month engagement at The House of Blues and Jazz in Shanghai. He has also performed in Denmark at the Viking Jazz Festival, and in Egypt at the Cairo Opera House, the Cairo Jazz Club and Sawy Culture Center, and toured in over 30 cities in the United States.
As a writer, Kevin has published short stories in the first anthology of the pop culture magazine outsideleft.com and Get on the Bus, a travel anthology from the San Franciso arts organization City|Space. As a composer Kevin created electronic music for the play Das Ohr des Dionysos, which appeared in the 100 Grad Fest in Berlin. Recently he won a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, a substantial grant that will allow him to travel the world and discover the effects of rapid urban growth on the local music scene in four megacities: São Paulo, Cairo, Mumbai, and Tokyo.
