Todd Park Mohr

(HUDSON, N.Y.) –Todd Park Mohr, the eponymous leader of rock group Big Head Todd & the Monsters, will perform a solo show at Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, May 3, 2014, at 8pm.

Founded as a trio in Boulder, Colorado, in 1986, by three students from Columbine High School, Big Head Todd & the Monsters quickly built a strong reputation on the local club circuit. The band grew beyond the Colorado club circuit through constant touring, gathering a loyal, dedicated following for the group’s funky blues-rock and gaining popularity on the jam-band circuit.

Highlights of the group’s career include recording a version of John Lee Hooker’s “Boom Boom” with the blues legend himself; recording with Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and Bernie Worrell of P-Funk; and playing with drummer Steve Jordan, renowned for his work with Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, the Blues Brothers and Keith Richards. The group’s single “Blue Sky” was written at the request of crewmembers of the Space Shuttle Discovery for their STS-114 Return to Flight mission in 2005, the first mission after the Columbia disaster. The song was subsequently used as Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign song in 2008, and was also performed by the group on March 8, 2011, at Johnson Space Center, as the first live version of a wake-up call to Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-133 mission.

Todd Park Mohr’s songwriting is devoted to the personal, the musical, and the political. Recent numbers ripped from the headlines include “We Won’t Go Back,” which Mohr penned about the 2010 Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East, and “Fear, Greed and Ignorance,” whose topical lyrics declare that it’s those three dishonorable traits that are “driving you America off the edge of the road.” The song “Hubert’s Dream” is a nod to the late blues guitarist and Howlin’ Wolf sideman Hubert Sumlin, while “Hey Delila” is Mohr’s tribute to another blues giant, Memphis Minnie.

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