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Coastal Cohorts to Return to NYC With King Mackerel & the Blues Are Running

The group will bring its musical to West Bank Café’s Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Kenji Fujishima
New York City
The Coastal Cohorts — Bland Simpson, Jim Wann, and Don Dixon — will bring their musical King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running to West Bank Café's Laurie Beechman Theatre for two performances in May.
The Coastal Cohorts — Bland Simpson, Jim Wann, and Don Dixon — will bring their musical King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running to West Bank Café's Laurie Beechman Theatre for two performances in May.
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The Coastal Cohorts will bring their musical King Mackerel & the Blues Are Running: Songs & Stories of the Carolina Coast to the West Bank Café's Laurie Beechman Theatre on Friday, May 18, and Saturday, May 19, at 7pm.

All three members of the Coastal Cohorts — Don Dixon, Bland Simpson, and Pump Boys & Dinettes principal author, composer, and lyricist Jim Wann — authored the show. They will perform the musical at these concerts.

Previously, the band has performed King Mackerel across North Carolina, Virginia, and everywhere from the lighthouse at Tybee Island, Georgia, to the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse, including a summer run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.