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Mark Daly's Connections CD features an accomplished cast of Grammy, SPBGMA, and IBMA award-winning musicians. It contains eighteen original songs (two with vocals plus sixteen instrumentals) and showcases the mandolin family of instruments (mandolin, mandola, mandocello, and octave mandolin) as well as the guitar, banjo, fiddle, double bass, piano, and resonator guitars. A variety of musical styles are represented including acoustic, progressive bluegrass, blues, Cajun, Celtic, swing, jazz and gospel.Mark Daly has been composing and performing on the mandolin family of instruments (mandolin, mandola, octave mandolin, and mandocello) for many years. He has performed/recorded with or opened for a variety of musicians and bands including The Goshorn Brothers (Pure Prairie League), Peter Rowan, Charlie Daniels, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Hard-Drive, Henry Butler, Kenny Baker, Josh Graves, Rod Powell, Clay Hess, Andy Leftwich, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Voodoo Loons, The Low Rollers, Taylor Farley and Bluerock, Randy Kohrs, Wade Krauss and Don Watson (1980 Olympics in Lake Placed), The Lashnitz Brothers Band, Iron Rooster, Shannon Tanner, the Zen Tricksters, among others.Here's What Others Have to Say About Mark's Music:"Connections is absolutely terrific, congratulations on a stellar artistic achievement. I truly love it." -- Terry Hummel, Former Publisher of Rolling Stone Magazine -- New York"I get quite a few albums from around the world, most of which are good but not great. Second string I call them, but when I slipped on the headphones with Connections in the CD player, my heart lifted instantly. This is just the sort of gem we radio people live to discover. If I wasnt already a convert to mandolin. Banjo. Guitar, fiddle, dobro etc. I would be now. What a great way to start my day. God knows how Ill choose which 2 tracks to play first up and dont worry the rest will get their chance in future shows."-- Phil Young -- Folk On The Fringe, Mountain District Radio -- Victoria, Australia"Connections" is an impressive work, perfectly played and arranged by a fabulous bunch of players under the direction of an excellent composer and mandolin player; it was great to discover there are still some bluegrass artists around who like to experiment adding new influences and moving toward the natural borders of the genre but at the same time remaining faithful to a pure acoustic sound." -- Massimo Ferro -- Radio Voce Spazio -- Alessandria, Italy"Your track KILLER BEES is placed among the 10 most requested titles at our RTW radio program. Congratulations, all the best and lots of success!" -- Christina Claesberg -- Director, Old Stringhouse Music Program -- Herford, Germany"One of the best mandolin players in the country... Connections has some of the best musicians anywhere... this is the boy to watch" -- Taylor Farley, DJ on WNKU Live Radio Broadcast introducing Connections -- Highland Heights, Kentucky"Great playing, great recording and job well done -- some really nicely done seriously good music." -- Scott Tichenor, Mandolin Cafe Host and Website Owner -- Lawrence, Kansas"I thought you might be interested in a copy of my recent playlist, as I included a number of tracks from Connections. I was very impressed with that CD. The quality of musicianship is uniformly high - astonishingly so - and I had trouble trying to work out what NOT to include. A fine effort!" -- Arthur Elliott, Sidestream 99.7 FM -- Brisbane, Australia"You rarely hear someone with this dexterity on ALL the mando family instruments, who writes for the many voices of the mandolin, within a larger band context. Mark wails on these larger bodied mando behemoths." -- Arthur Stern, Co-Mando Online Review -- Benicia, California"I'm really excited about this next CD. Mark Daly's music has really connected with me. It has a great line-up of musicians. It is a great CD." -- Strings & Things Radio Broadcast introducing Connections -- Billings, Montana"Don't know Mark Daly? Neither did we, until this dazzling album hit our doorstep. Subtitled "New American Roots Music," it features 18 original tunes that sound at once like bluegrass classics yet refreshingly new; and the energy of this freewheeling instrumental showcase never seems to let up! With an ace crew of sidemen aboard---including Kentucky Thunder fiddler Andy Leftwich, among others---this Cincinnati-based mandolin killer is set to announce himself to the world. Don't miss it!" -- Elderly Instruments Review -- Connections is a featured "Hot Platter" CD in Elderly's Instruments music catalogue -- Lansing, Michigan
Connections is available at CD Baby (www.cdbaby.com/cd/markdaly), iTunes, Elderly, and independent music stores. For more information go to: www.mandomusic.com
