Megan Mullally and her band, Nancy And Beth

Megan Mullally brings her band, Nancy And Beth, to Largo at the Coronet, with Nick Offerman opening the evening. The billed group is Mullally and Stephanie Hunt with a backing band, known for a staged songbook that moves through covers and original-minded arrangements, close harmony, coordinated movement and dry comic timing. The show is presented as a full band performance rather than a solo Megan Mullally set; the listing does not specify the musicians joining Mullally and Hunt for this date.

Nancy And Beth is described as L.A.-based, while Hunt is from Austin, Texas, where she and Mullally met during the filming of Somebody Up There Likes Me. The pair call their approach “punk-vaudeville,” drawing from Americana, pop, jazz, blues, country, soul, gospel and occasional rap. They have appeared at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival, Newport Folk Festival and the Grand Ole Opry, and opened for the Pixies. Time Out stresses, “They’re not a comedy band by any means,” even as it hears a “knowing wit” in the arrangements. Reviewers have called them “perfectly in synch, perfectly in harmony,” while the Los Angeles Times found them “deadpan serious about the music they love.”