Just off tour with the Dresden Dolls, Brooklyn composer Sxip Shirey was back in Minneapolis to compose music for the Children's Theatre's Tales of a West Texas Marsupial Girl. In this special one-night only show, Sxip performed his incredible music for Mutant Harmonicas, Industrial Flute, Triple Extended Tin Whistle, Regurgitated Music Boxes, Glass Bowl Choir Unit and Human Beat Box.

Walking Shadow first saw Sxip at First Avenue during our run of Seventy Scenes of Halloween, and found ourselves completely unable to describe him. Enrapt by his songs, instruments, and dazzling showmanship we sought him in New York City after attending the Mirror Repertory's production of 10-Speed Revolution. Only two months later, Walking Shadow proudly presented Sxip Shirey live in concert.

Sxip is a member of The Daredevil Opera Company and and has appeared in productions at The Kennedy Center, The Edinburgh Fringe, The Sydney Opera House and the New Victory Theater on Broadway. He has toured the US with The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and has performed at Bonnaroo, The Knitting Factory, Joe's Pub, CBGB's, Tonic and has played many underground parties in New York City.

"New Yorkers are perpetually trying to explain the musical gazingstock that is Sxip. Their eyes grow big as saucers and they wave their hands around, emitting odd tones of pleasure and emphatic non sequiturs such as 'A bowl-like thing with a tampon applicator, utterly transcendent' before sagging from the effort and saying simply, 'I guess you'll just have to go see him.' ... He's one of those musicians who see potential and beauty in detritus and shrapnel. As a collector of lost things and constructor of never-before-heard noise ... he conjures a world of infernal calliopes and cotton candy machetes wielded by Gypsy crones with angel feet."  --Silke Tudor, SF Weekly