Shows
Bill MacKay & Michael Zerang play a set for another wonderful art event at the Soccer Club Club. Set time is between 9pm and 10pm.
Black Duck brings together three pillars of the Chicago music community: guitarist/bassist Douglas McCombs, guitarist Bill MacKay and drummer Charles Rumback. This is an album release show!
Black Duck brings together three pillars of the Chicago music community: guitarist/bassist Douglas McCombs, guitarist Bill MacKay and drummer Charles Rumback. This is a record release show!
ME/BIO
Bill MacKay is a Chicago-based composer, improvisor, guitarist and writer. He has created an extensive body of work in the experimental folk, rock, avant-garde, and jazz diasporas.
MacKay’s blissful harmonic control and outside-the-box guitar mastery are one with his compelling songwriting, and his creative voyage and imaginative influences are fully displayed across his discography.
His recent recordings include: Keys (2021) with Nathan Bowles, Scarf (2020), STIR (2019) with Katinka Kleijn, Fountain Fire (2019), SpiderBeetleBee (2017) with Ryley Walker, and Esker (2017), and were released by Drag City.
MacKay is also a poet, visual artist and polyglot, and is a member of both the avant-garde rock outfit Black Duck (with Doug McCombs) and the experimental groove-drone project BCMC (with Cooper Crain).
www.billmackay.com
Bill MacKay - Fountain Fire (Drag City, 2019)
Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker - Hypnotic Pulse of the Reindeer Range (JMY, 2017)
Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker SpiderBeetleBee (Drag CIty, 2017)
Bill MacKay - Esker (Drag City, 2017)
Bill MacKay - Sunrise/Bill MacKay plays the songs of John Hulburt (Tompkins Square, 2015)
Darts & Arrows - Altamira (ears&eyes records, 2015)
Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker - Land of Plenty (Whistler Records, 2015)
Bill MacKay - Chatham Park (2014)
Bill MacKay and Matt Lux - December Concert (ears&eyes records, 2014)
Darts & Arrows - Eyes of the Carnival (2012)
Bill MacKay and Darts & Arrows (2010)
Broken Things - Swim to the River (2007)
Bill MacKay & Sounds of Now (2005)
Contributer
Harry James - Harried (Potions Music, NYC, 2022)
Ryley Walker - So Certain EP (Husky Pants, 2022)
![Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy Blind Date Party [Drag City, 2021]](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/612311/30e4a90d7504bb2f1dee8b6f43235ea688068315/original/blind-date-pary-2021-bill-and-will.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIiwzMzBdLFsibWF4Il0sWyJ3ZSJdXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg)
Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy Blind Date Party [Drag City, 2021]
Steve Gunn - Other You (Matador, 2021)
Ryley Walker - Course in Fable (Husky Pants, 2021)
Bevel - Angler Senses (Astral Editions, 2021)
![Angela James - Drink and Try not to Cry (Whistler Records, 2014)]](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/612311/37b338ff48ed2282f30bf5418adf5903af08e5d2/original/angela-james-drink-and-try-not-to-cry-2014-whistler.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIiwyOTNdLFsibWF4Il0sWyJ3ZSJdXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg)
![The Postman Delivers: A Chicago Musician's Tribute to John Prine (Lost in America Music, 2010)]](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/612311/36143f622529775dcd815cff10a36b8d560dea2f/original/the-postman-delivers-tribut-to-john-prine-2010-lost-in-america-music.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIiwyODBdLFsibWF4Il0sWyJ3ZSJdXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg)
Compilations
Various Artists - Warm Violet (2020) A Benefit for Chicago Community Jail Support
Stay Tuned: Season 2 (Perpetual Doom, 2022)
Various - Drag City artists Uncut Magazine / Covermount CD (2020)
![Various Artists - So Many Singing, Vol. 2 - A Compilation To Benefit Immigrant Rights (2019) [RUINATION RECORD CO.]](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/612311/a4669614dd97aa63db0c40bd596e9985dd625466/original/so-many-singing.png/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIiwzMzBdLFsibWF4Il0sWyJ3ZSJdXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.png)
