Alynda Lee Segarra has a back story that sounds like it could be found in the pages of a Jack Kerouac novel. At the age of 17, she left her home in the Bronx and criss-crossed the country by hopping freight trains and found herself in playing the washboard in band of made up of fellow travelers called The Dead Man Street Orchestra. Segarra eventually landed herself in New Orleans, picked up the banjo, began writing her own music and formed her own band – Hurray For The Riff Raff.
Earlier this year the band put out their third full-length album, Look Out Mama
Hurray For The Riff Raff – Look Out Mama
Hurray For The Riff Raff will spend the majority of the fall on a lengthy European tour, but prior to all that will headline New York City’s Mercury Lounge on August 26.
