You’ve got great taste.
Sign in to follow your favorite artists, save events, & more.
Sign In
Get Tickets
claytonoperahouse.com
About this concert
British Born but American Made, The Brit Pack brings the best of British rock music to stages across the USA. Formed by two Brits in NYC, The Brit Pack covers the spectrum of the UK’s musical legacy, from the iconic anthems of the sixties to the modern classics of today. Matt Nakoa on vocal, guitar and keys, Mark Sidney Johnson on guitar and vocals, Bryan Percivall on bass and vocals and Will Haywood Smith on drums and vocals comprise this group. The repertoire spans all the greatest decades of British music from the original British invasion of The Beatles and Rolling Stones to George Michael and Oasis.
Show More
Find a place to stay
What fans are saying
Dana
September 7th 2024
Amazing musician! If you get a chance to see this guy, do it. You won’t be disappointed.
Old Saybrook, CT@The Kate
Easily follow your favorite artists by syncing your music
Sync Music
Share Event
Matt Nakoa Biography
Matt Nakoa is an award-winning songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. A modern troubadour, he makes his home on the highways and concert stages of America, and appears regularly with folk music icon Tom Rush. The Boston Globe says of Nakoa, “Between his piano chops and heartfelt originals on guitar, he drops jaws.”
Born on a small goat farm in New York State, Nakoa trained to be a concert pianist before accepting a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music as a vocalist. He developed his dramatic songwriting style with his college alt-rock band, The Fens, and after the band dissolved, he landed in NYC. It was in Manhattanʼs all-night piano bars that Nakoa developed an uncanny ability to command the attention of any audience. His first solo albums, released in 2012 and 2014, garnered multiple songwriting awards, including a win at Kerrville Folk Festivalʼs New Folk Competition.
Nakoaʼs newest album, Casting Shadows, is a spellbinding blend of pop, soul, and classical influences that tells a story of childhood dreams crashing headlong into grownup reality. The Ark of Music magazine proclaims, “What we have here is a truly encouraging sign of what pop could once again become …”
Read MoreBorn on a small goat farm in New York State, Nakoa trained to be a concert pianist before accepting a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music as a vocalist. He developed his dramatic songwriting style with his college alt-rock band, The Fens, and after the band dissolved, he landed in NYC. It was in Manhattanʼs all-night piano bars that Nakoa developed an uncanny ability to command the attention of any audience. His first solo albums, released in 2012 and 2014, garnered multiple songwriting awards, including a win at Kerrville Folk Festivalʼs New Folk Competition.
Nakoaʼs newest album, Casting Shadows, is a spellbinding blend of pop, soul, and classical influences that tells a story of childhood dreams crashing headlong into grownup reality. The Ark of Music magazine proclaims, “What we have here is a truly encouraging sign of what pop could once again become …”
Contemporary Folk
Indie
Classical
Pop
Rock
Alternative
Follow artist