Meg Toohey & Friends - Live from Rockwood Music Hall

This event took place on November 2nd, 2020, but replay to watch at your own pace is available!

REPLAY STARTS AT 13:45 Replay available for 48 hours from the end of the show

Live From Rockwood Music Hall shows take place from Stage 2 at Rockwood Music Hall, with 100% of the audience viewing from the comfort of their own home.

Other than the digital nature of this event, treat it as any other concert! These livestreams will be presented with 1080p HD multi-camera video, and soundboard-quality audio piped directly into your speakers (or headphones).

Upon purchasing a ticket, you will receive an email confirmation and access to the stream on this website.

Can't make the live show? No problem! The purchaser-specific ticket link will give you access to the live stream, AND allow you to watch the show at your own pace up to 48 hours from the end of the show!

Tickets are $15 - please note the flexible pricing, and tipping options for venue and/or artist(s) within the stream.

Thank you for your continued support!

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Meg Toohey

“I’ve always been interested in every aspect of music––interested in playing everything and writing it all and then, ‘Oh, how does the string section work? How can I arrange the horns?’” Meghan Toohey says from her home in New Jersey. The Massachusetts native moved back to the East Coast after 11 years in Los Angeles thanks to receiving the offer of a lifetime: playing all and composing several of the guitar parts for Sara Bareilles’ Broadway production of Waitress.

Toohey’s peers and devoted fans know her work in moody pop-rock well. After founding and fronting critically acclaimed The So and So’s in Boston, she moved on to co-found The Cold and Lovely in Los Angeles and then to play guitar and other instruments with The Weepies and more. She also played with Boston-based Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lori McKenna for years, and penned her own gems that found their way to hit TV series such as Pretty Little Liars, Vampire Diaries, Parenthood, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Army Wives, Gossip Girl, and other shows on MTV, PBS, and more, as well as films including Sex in the City, Friends with Money, Morning Glory, and Last Shift, which bowed at the Cannes Film Festival. As a producer, Toohey has worked with a diverse slew of indie artists Vivek Shraya, Garrison Starr, and comedian Margaret Cho, whose album featuring a Toohey-produced track garnered a Grammy nod. She has played guitar for artists like Sara Bareilles, Jason Mraz, Keala Settle, Kat McPhee, Manolo Garcia (Latin Grammy for Rock Album of the Year) and more.

In 2020 Toohey released her first solo album since 2001. "Butch" received critical acclaim from her peers and industry alike. Going back to her roots Toohey dug into the artists that resonated deeply with her like Bonnie Raitt, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Springsteen. In other words, she dove into studying "classic songwriters making great music". It's what brought her back to the music she was always most drawn to listening to and making herself.

"For a long time I got into so many different styles, and they would all pull my ear in their own directions - first it was The Replacements and The Pretenders, then Jonatha Brooke and alternate tunings and weird harmonies. This record I’ve gone back to the “three chords and the truth” kind of vibe. I’ve put away all my tricks, picked up an acoustic and a capo, found the right feeling in my voice, and just gone with it, right back to where it started.

Toohey continues her journey toward the truth, working again with the same team she used on "Butch" (co-writer Dawn Kamerling, mixer Rachael Alina, drummer John O'Reilly Jr) in a series of new releases produced by Toohey ready to close out 2020 and bring in 2021. The infectious "That's All Over Now” (released in August), is followed by “Lucky Streak”, a tribute written to Meg’s friend and fellow Waitress The Musical cast mate, Nick Cordero, who sadly passed away from Covid in July. The track features the Waitress band (NADIA DIGIALLONARDO CONDUCTOR/PIANO, ADAM KAUFMAN KEYBOARD/PERCUSSION/ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR, RICH MERCURIO DRUMS/PERCUSSION, MEG TOOHEY GUITARS, YAIR EVNINE CELLO, LEE NADEL BASS) as well as SARA BAREILLES, who wrote the Tony nominated original score.