BIOGRAPHY
Guitarist, Singer, Radio DJ and music journalist
Marc Stone has been performing
professionally for over fifteen years. He has
travelled around the globe, playing in nearly
twenty countries in North America, South America,
Europe and Asia. He can be heard playing red-hot
Delta Blues solo concerts on his steel guitar,
leading the smoking four piece Marc
Stone Band on electric guitar and lap
steel, or backing great Roots Music artists
in the clubs, at Mardi Gras balls and Jazzfest
slots, on the road around the U.S. and beyond,
and on recording dates. His efforts have earned
him friends far and wide, critical accolades
in multiple languages, and a nomination for
Best Emerging Blues Artist
at the 2005 Best of The Beat Awards in New Orleans.
In addition to regular gigs around New Orleans
and the Gulf south and a steady touring schedule
of solo, duo and band dates in Europe, Marc
has produced numerous projects involving the
cream of local and national Roots talent. He
created, produced and acted as musical director
for the Louisiana Blues Throwdown.
Marc’s Throwdown series has included dates
at all of the major clubs in New Orleans (House
of Blues, Tipitina’s, Maple Leaf)
and was the headlining act at the 2003 Johnstown
Folk Festival, closing the main stage in front
of 4000 people. Artists that have performed
with Marc as part of the Throwdown include Harry
“Big Daddy” Hypolite, Walter “Wolfman”
Washington, Mathilda Jones, Vasti Jackson, Jumpin’
Johnny Sansone, Shannon McNally and Eric Lindell.
The Throwdown, with a line up featuring
Marc and Vasti, will be making it's first overseas
trip to France in summer 2007. Marc also acted
as producer and musical director of the A
Change is Gonna Come benefit concert
for the New Orleans Musicians Clinic,
held at the Old Point Bar on
April 28, 2006. The concert featured Sacred
Steel masters The Campbell Brothers,
who flew in from New York and were joined by
Terrance Simien, Anders Osborne, Kirk
Joseph, Tim Green, Arlee Leonard, Andy J. Forest,
Shannon McNally, Sean C and many others.
the event sold out and raised over $6000 for
the clinic. The Sacred Funk
project evolved from this concert. Look for
a CD and DVD of the concert to be released in
2007, as well as Sacred Funk dates featuring
Campbell Brothers with Marc and an All-Star
New Orleans crew.
Born in New York City in 1970, Marc began playing
in blues clubs at the age of seventeen. His
early days on the scene put him on stage with
New York blues heavyweights Johnny Allen,
Jerry Dugger, Bill Sims, and members
of the Holmes Brothers. In
the early 1990s Marc's Eclectic Acoustic
Jam in Greenwich Village was a stopping
point for village freaks and emerging talent
such as Alana Davis, David Poe,
Matt Johnson (of Jeff
Buckley's band), and future superstar
Dave Matthews. In 1993 Marc
moved to New Orleans and began to play with
a long list of Louisiana’s top artists.
Since then Marc has gigged, toured or re corded
with C.J. Chenier, Eddie Bo, Marva Wright,
Terrance Simien, Marcia Ball, Tommy Ridgely,
Henry Gray, Ernie K-Doe, Big Al Carson, John
Boutte, Dwayne Dopsie, Mike West, Jeff and Vida,
Theresa Andersson and many others.
Look for Marc on tour in 2007 with the Marc
Stone Band, the Marc Stone Blues Duo, the Louisiana
Blues Throwdown featuring Vasti Jackson and
Mathilda Jones, and special dates with Sacred
Funk.
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