New season of Bryan’s co-produced, Emmy award-winning “Live
at the Charleston Music Hall” series set to debut on regional PBS-affiliates,
Jan. 22.
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Mark Bryan as photographed by Jonathan Boncek.
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“Leaves us with one amazing feeling: community,” says Popdust in
its premiere coverage of the new Mark
Bryan music video.
“Forgetting
About Me” was shot in and around Bryan’s home base of Charleston, SC and
features many locals, friends, and fellow musicians.
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Mark Bryan stopped
by Paste to perform
songs from his Songs of the Fortnight solo album, out now.
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Mark Bryan – In The Press
“A driving, full-on pop masterpiece.” — Popdose
“Proves yet again that he’s more than the guitarist
from Hootie.” — Free-Times (Columbia, SC)
“Through Mark’s
effervescent delivery, you can tell that he’s right where he loves to be.” — Popdust
“Steady, whimsical optimism.” — MAGNET
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“It’s satisfying. It’s a chance to take what I have
learned from my experiences within the music industry and convey it to the next
generation,” says musician Mark Bryan,
best-known as co-founder and guitarist of the multi-platinum, Grammy award-winning
band Hootie and The Blowfish. On the
heels of the recent release of his third solo album Songs of The Fortnight, Bryan recently chatted
with the Charleston
City Paper about his work beyond being a songwriter and performer.
Songs
of The Fortnight itself actually evolved
from Bryan’s work helping out aspiring
musicians. As he began to amass production credits on dozens of recordings, Bryan launched a three-year long blog
project, which saw him posting a new song of his own, or an artist he was
playing with or producing, every two weeks over the course those years.
Eventually, there was enough of Bryan’s
own material for an album.
Now, Bryan’s
sense of community comes full circle in the just-released music video
for the Fortnight single “Forgetting
About Me” which was shot in and around Charleston, South Carolina where Bryan focuses so many of his efforts.
“The idea of an object getting passed around randomly (a
key, which is seen being forged as the video opens) and leading
to a connected event, felt like a good story,” Bryan says of the clip’s concept. “We asked some of our fellow
musician friends to be the key-passers, and some of the kids in the audience
are students from my class.”
Along with helping to establish the College of Charleston’s concentration
on the Music Industry, which he continues with as a professor (the “class” he refers
to above), Bryan is also involved in
Carolina Studios, a non-profit
recording studio that allows children in low-income areas to have a songwriting
and recording experience free-of-charge. Bryan
also manages the emerging Charleston-based rock band Stop Light Observations, and by teaming up with the esteemed local
venue, the Charleston Music Hall,
has co-produced and launched the television show “Live at the Charleston Music Hall,” which recently
won a regional Emmy Award.
The next season of “Live at the Charleston Music Hall” will begin airing on
PBS-affiliates in the south, starting Jan. 22nd.
“Charleston is
an amazing city in the middle of a remarkable renaissance,” Bryan says of his adopted hometown (he
is originally from Bethesda, Maryland). “I’m lucky to be part of its growth.”
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As a member of a nearly 20 million album-selling group
Hootie and the Blowfish, Mark Bryan’s guitar playing was
ubiquitous in 1995 (and in last week’s
episode of South Park, too!) Hootie and The Blowfish’s Cracked
Rear View earned the biggest album sales of any release that year, and
is now ranked as one of the biggest selling albums in music history. Success at
that level brings all sorts of pre-conceptions, so when first hearing the tunes
on Bryan’s just-released third solo album
Songs
of The Fortnight (Chucktown
Music Group), listeners will be surprised at the down-to-Earth songwriting
that sounds like Southern hospitality.
Mark Bryan’s third album Songs of the Fortnight is out now via
the artist’s own Chucktown Music Group.
Bryan is available for interviews.
Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Mark Bryan
Songs
of the Fortnight
(Chucktown Music Group)
Out Now
Track Listing:
01. Mybabyshe’sallright (YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY | APPLE
| SOUNDCLOUD
| MP3)
02. If You Saw Her (YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY | APPLE
| SOUNDCLOUD
| MP3)
03. Almost Loved Me
04. A Little Bit of Everything
05. The Great Beyond
07. Whole Lotta Lovin’ (feat. Hank Futch)
08. Sweet Love (feat. Kathy Dempf)
09. Only Love Can Satisfy
10. A Song For Maryland
11. Maybe Then (Acoustic)
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Mark Bryan Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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