UPDATE: THE KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN IS OVER AN THE BAND RAISED MORE THAN $40.000!
Intergalactic marching band, the March Fourth Marching Band has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a new tour bus. They’re asking friends, fans and the promoters who have supported them to help keep their amazing entourage on the road in something safer, more reliable and a lot nicer to mother earth. Skyline will be donating to this campaign and we hope you do too. WATCH THE VIDEO.
MacIsaac and MacEachern first met at an artists’ hangout in Toronto in the late 1990s, when MacEachern was part of the band Zoebliss. MacIsaac briefly joined that band, and the pair continued collaborating as a duo after Zoebliss broke up in 1999. They released three albums independently in Canada, and then signed a record deal with True North Records for their fourth album, No Fool for Trying. Madison Violet are signed to Big Lake / India Records in Germany. The duo have toured extensively across Canada, Europe, the UK and Australia. In January 2011, Madison Violet was nominated for The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards in the Singer-Songwriter category for No Fool For Trying and won in the category for Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song for “The Ransom and Small of My Heart”.
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This prolific American singer-songwriter and a post-punk pioneer is the founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of The Throwing Muses From that launching pad, Hersh performs and records as a solo artist and with her hardcore punk influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave, as well as with the Muses. Known for creative chord chemistry, hypnotic sonic treatments, and a vocal style ranging from softly melodic singing to impassioned screaming, her signature contributions to popular music include addressing the complexities of marriage and motherhood through impressionistic, sometimes hallucinatory lyrics about everyday feelings and varying mental states. Last year, Penguin Books released her memoir “Rat Girl” to critical aclaim. Hersh brought her companion performance piece “Paradoxical Undressing” to sold out houses at The Getty (LA), Bumpershoot Festival (Seattle) and Museum Of Fine Arts (Boston) and more.
Irma Thomas, the “Soul Queen of New Orleans”, remains one of America’s most distinctive and classic singers, a treasure from the golden age of soul music who remains as compelling and powerful as ever. Irma first achieved prominence with a string of 1960s hits including “Time Is On My Side” (later covered by the Rolling Stones), “It’s Raining” and “Wish Someone Would Care”, and toured extensively with her band, The Tornados. Upon returning to Louisiana in the 1970s, she built her reputation as the “Soul Queen of New Orleans,” signing with Rounder in 1986. After surviving the destruction of her home and business by hurricane Katrina, she released After the Rain in 2006, which won her a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
Victor Wooten is getting a double-shot of national television exposure with appearances on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on February 10th and Fox News’ Mike Huckabee Show on February 11th. Check you local listings for exact times.
This was the most productive APAP ever for our Skyline Music sales team of Andrea Sabata, Patrick May, Crandall Rogers, Steve Peck, Mark Lourie, Barron Ruth and Bruce Houghton. It’s always great to see so many of you in person; and we look forward to doing business together in 2012 and beyond. Judging from the action in the booth and the dates on hold, this is shaping up to be our busiest year ever.
Fabulous Thunderbird lead singer, harmonica player, and songwriter Kim Wilson is as much a student and historian of classic blues as he is one of the world’s top harmonica players. He spends upwards of 200 nights every year on the road, playing festivals and clubs throughout the U.S., Canada, South America and Europe with his own Kim Wilson Blues All-Stars and as lead singer of The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Many have called him the King of Chicago Blues harmonica. As Muddy Waters said, “Kim Wilson is the best harmonica player since Little Walter”.
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For fifty years, Del McCoury’s music has defined authenticity for hard core bluegrass fans, as well as, a growing number of fans only vaguely familiar with the genre. “To keep the purity that you need to do this kind of music, and the drive and the energy takes a special kind of guy,” said fan Elvis Costello.
And even as Del continues to tour, he’s also found time to curate his own annual gathering DelFest, collaborate with artists ranging from Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Keller William, and to release “Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe” marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the father of bluegrass.
Already the recipient of nine IBMA Entertainer of the Year awards, a Grammy in 2006 and the prestigious National Heritage Award in 2010, Del McCoury is being inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall Of Fame this fall.
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Legendary hitmaker Michael Martin Murphey has signed with Skyline Music for exclusive agency representation. Murphey and his Rio Grande Band featuring ace guitarist Pat Flynn, multi-instrumentalist Ryan Murphey and bassist Gary Roller continues to push musical boundaries. Murphey left an indelible mark on American music with massive pop and progressive country hits “Wildfire,” “Carolina In The Pines”, “Long Line of Love,” “What’s Forever For”, “Geronimo’s Cadillac”, “Cowboy Logic” and more. In the 90’s, he added the title of top selling singer of American Cowboy Music in the world; and then in 2009 earned a Grammy nomination and Bluegrass chart topper for “Buckaroo Blue Grass”. His most recent album is 2011’s “Tall Grass and Cool Water”.
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Its been said that the musicians of New Orleans are all members of the one gigantic band that breaks up into smaller groups on a nightly basis. If this were really the case , the New Orleans Suspects would be in a class all of there own. Band members include Mean Willie Green from the Neville Brothers on drums, Reggie Scanlan of the Radiators on the drums, Jake Eckert on guitar from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Kevin Harris on saxophone is a founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and tickling the keys is CR Gruver from the national touring act Outformation. These cats are all New Orleans, all the time and Skyline is proud to represent them. Get ready for a heavy does New Orleans rock and funk!
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