Mark Horton - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a tour manager and an audio engineer. I've been working in the music business for about 15 years now.
I currently work with some great artists like Norah Jones, The Chieftains, Rufus Wainwright, Rosanne Cash, and Patrizio Buanne.
I have a wife, a daughter, and a brand-new son.
Some other people I have, and sometimes still, work with include:
Ashley MacIsaac, Lennie Gallant, Natalie MacMaster, Dave Gunning, Mir, Mary Jane Lamond, The Irish Rovers, Seven Nations, Slainte Mhath, Quagmyre, and many more who I can't think of at the moment.
With The Chieftains the list gets ridiculous:
Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Sinead O'Connor, Los Lobos, Joan Osborne, Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Jerry Douglas, Allison Moorer, Tim O'Brien, Ricky Skaggs, Bela Fleck, Art Garfunkel, Allison Krause, Ziggy Marley, Earl Scruggs, Buddy and Julie Miller, Del McCoury Band, Patty Griffin, Martina McBride, Gillian Welch, Carlos Nunez, blah blah blah.
I'm sure you get the idea.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

John, Paul, George, and Ringo circa 1964

Music:

The Beatles, The White Stripes, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, Butch Walker, David Bowie, Big Star, U2, Iron Maiden, Bob Marley, Johnny Cash, Soul Coughing, Valley Lodge, El Stovito and M16, Witch Taint, Mir, Fall Out Boy, Dave Gunning, Lennie Gallant, Rosanne Cash, Allison Moorer, Steve Earle, The Chieftains, The Killers, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Coldplay

Movies:

Star Wars: Episodes IV and V, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Garden State, Almost Famous, The Big Lebowski, Spider-Man I and II, Batman Begins, the Matrix, The Bourne Supremacy, The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, An Inconvenient Truth

Television:

Entourage, Battlestar Galactica, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Shark Week on Discovery

Books:

Them by Jon Ronson, Black Cross by Greg Iles

Heroes:

Super Variety: Spider-Man and Batman.
Non-super variety: John Lennon

My Blog

Dick Van Dyke and Dr. Quinn

This morning I was standing outside my hotel, Le Parc Suites, and a nice Jaguar pulled up with two older fellas on board. They got out and one guy was Dick Van Dyke. Not...
Posted by Mark Horton on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:22:00 PST

LA and celebrities......again

I find myself in the greater Los Angeles area once again so I thought I should blog about celebrities again. I'm not sure if these people are celebrities or not. Nor do ...
Posted by Mark Horton on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:01:00 PST

New Baby

I now have a son to complete my little family. His name is Nathan and he was born on December 18th. He's an awesome little guy but he likes to sleep all day and fuss all...
Posted by Mark Horton on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:45:00 PST

LA Update

Here's a sampling of some more sightings:Ashton and DemiEva MendezMichael York (you know him as Basil Exposition from the Austin Powers films)Oh, and Frodo was there but I didn't see him. &...
Posted by Mark Horton on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:18:00 PST

I'm in LA again

This city is getting way to familiar. I don't even look at a map anymore!No celebrity sightings yet but the night isn't over. I'm doing a Rufus show at the Museum of Modern Art so who know...
Posted by Mark Horton on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:53:00 PST

Celebrity sightings

Okay. So I'm on this promo tour with Norah and we're staying at the Sunset Marquis. I walk into my room last night and look out my window which overlooks the courtyard a...
Posted by Mark Horton on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:42:00 PST

New Gig?

Well it seems like the harder I try to get out of the music business, the greater the stranglehold it gets on me. It looks like I just got a short promo tour with Norah Jones ...
Posted by Mark Horton on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:36:00 PST

Dave Hill

Check out comedian Dave Hill at www.myspace.com/davehillexplosion and/or his website www.davehillonline.com. He's funny as hell. I met him in New York at the Upright Cit...
Posted by Mark Horton on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:07:00 PST

Alone in LA

So the tour with Rosanne is over and it was truly amazing. I got to listen to some amazing music played by amazing musicians and then I got to hang out with them. Shawn ...
Posted by Mark Horton on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:29:00 PST

2 shows down

Well, I made it through 2 shows with Rosanne without anything major going wrong. It's kind of mind-blowing to sit around a table chatting about family life with someone who's ...
Posted by Mark Horton on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:30:00 PST