Slaid Cleaves
- Date
- Saturday, November 28, 2026
- Time
- Show 6 PM
- Venue
- McGonigel's Mucky Duck, Upper Kirby
- Genre
- Blues, Folk + country, Indie
- Links
- Spotify
Slaid Cleaves plays McGonigel's Mucky Duck, a 120-capacity small room in Upper Kirby, on Saturday, November 28. The show starts at 6 PM. This one could sell out: big draw for a room this size (80k listeners, 120 capacity). Slaid Cleaves also has 2 other dates on Go See Shows, in Austin and San Antonio.
“A master storyteller, one influenced not by the shine of pop-culture but by the dirt of real life.” – Joseph Hudak — Rolling Stone Country “I tend to think of songs as the whiskey of writing. Distilled down to the essence powerful, concentrated, immediate. You can take it all in and really feel it in just seconds.” — SLAID CLEAVES The characters in Slaid Cleaves’ songs live in unglamorous reality. They work dead-end jobs, they run out of money, they grow old, they hold on to each other (or not), and they die. With an eye for the beauty in everyday life, he tells their stories, bringing a bit of empathy to their uncaring world.

Slaid Cleaves (born Richard Slaid Cleaves on June 9, 1964) is an American singer. He was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in South Berwick, Maine and Round Pond, Maine.
Artist bios from Last.fm, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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