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Mike Zanta

About Me

Mike has been playing guitar and singing for a long, long time and has performed in several bands and as a solo artist since the mid 1970's.Born in Endicott, NY he began studying guitar at age 10 and continued to study privately into college. He rekindled an interest in songwriting in 2004 and some of the songs written during this period are on his debut CD, “A Handful of Treasure”, which he made with Emmy® Award winning producer and composer Jim Chapdelaine.Mike lives in West Hartford, Connecticut with his wife and children, and a bunch of animals.For booking and other information requests contact Mike at:Mike Zanta c/o Useful Ignorance Records PO Box 270246 West Hartford, CT 06127-0246 [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 15/12/2007
Band Website: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mikezanta
Band Members: Mike Zanta
Influences: Pretty much everything. Some of my favorite music is made by Everything But The Girl, Pete Townsend, The Grateful Dead, Sirsy, Rory Block, Al Anderson, NRBQ, Alison Krauss, Led Zeppelin, Rasputina, Lou Reed, Orleans, Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Laura Love, Chris Smither, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, .... I could go on but I won't.
Sounds Like: That's up to you
Record Label: Useful Ignorance Records
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

On the radio

One of my songs was selected for inclusion on WMVY radio's "Local Music Cafe".  Give it a listen!
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:03:00 GMT

Jitters Coffee House

I'll be performing at Jitters Coffee House on Friday 6/20.  First set at 8:30.  2nd set at around 10:30.   1273 Queen St., Southington, CT
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:15:00 GMT

CT Live Music

I entered a music contest and your vote will help!  Please visit www.ctlivemusic.com and follow the link to vote.  Thanks for your support. Mike
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 04:13:00 GMT

New CD

A Handful of Treasure is now available from Digstation!  www.digstation.com CDBaby, iTunes, etc. will follow.
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:36:00 GMT

New CD

The CD is at Oasis being duplicated!  I expect to get it back from them on March 12th and will make it available as soon as I get it.
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:19:00 GMT

New CD

I just got the pre-master version of the CD.  Still on track for a late February release!
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:25:00 GMT

New CD

A bit of a delay on the CD release.  Everything should be ready for distribution around the end of February.
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:45:00 GMT

New CD

CD is almost done.  It should be ready for duplication in a few weeks. 
Posted by on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:43:00 GMT