Mike Clark: News

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all who voted for me (Mike Clark) for Calgary Blues Music Association Hall of Fame Sax Player of the year award. I am deeply honoured.

Sorry Folks but I tried the honour system for downloading my tunes. I have had thousands of downloads from my site. But only one person ever paid for my tunes. So I am sorry to say that I cannot give my music away any longer.
Music is expensive to produce and if people wish to have new music made they must support it.

October 27th 2007 will be my last jam session at Morgan's Pub.
Starting on November 2nd we will be jamming at my own club.
Mikey's Juke Joint & Eatery.
I'd like to thank all the music fans and players who have supported the Morgan's Jam Session over the 16 or 17 or so years I have been hosting there. I 'd like to invite you all to Saturday afternoons at Mikey's!
Cheers
Mike Clark

I am taking the plunge and opening a new music venue in Calgary.
MIKEY'S JUKE JOINT & EATERY will have its Grand Opening on October 31th with one of my all time favourite bands the ALIEN REBELS
please have a look at our website www.mikeysjukejoint.com for more info

You can donate for my music simply by clicking and using your credit cards, you do not have to join PayPal.

CALGARY INTERNATIONAL BLUES FESTIVAL - 2007 OFFICIAL MEDIA RELEASE

Calgary Bluesfest 2007 will be holding an official media release this Saturday, May 26th at Morgan's Pub, 1324 - 17th Ave SW. The general public are invited to attend.

The announcement will be made at 4:30 pm during the afternoon jam. We will be announcing virtually the rest of the entire line-up, which should take a total of about 10 minutes (at most) or so... followed by a set featuring festival artists including the Mike Clark Band with special guest Tim Williams and perhaps others.

For more info about the Bluesfest please go to www.calgarybluesfest.com

We will be hosting our annual Food Bank Jam on Saturday Demember 16th. Amos Garrett, Tim Williams and Steve Pineo will be guests at this awesome jam. Please bring a food donation or cold hard cash!
See you there!

I am honoured to be again nominated for the Canada's Blues awards. For the third year running I have been nominated in the Horn Player of the Year category.
Thanks to the commitee. To vote please go to http://www.mapleblues.ca/register.aspx

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We are starting to record our "Live at the Morgue" CD at our long running jam session at Morgan's Pub in Calgary. I invite you to be a part of this cool event! Saturday's from 3-7 PM!

My electronic press kit (EPK) will be showcased on Sonicbids starting October 23 though to the 29th 2006 Have a look at www.sonicbids.com

You can hire one of Calgary's favourite bands for your Christmas bash!
We still have a few openings between now and Christmas so book now.
See my contact page for more info!

As an indepenent artist I feel that my music needs to accesible in a easy to find centralized place. HERE!!! So I thought I would take matters into my own hands. But I need your help and honesty. I really believe you'll like my tunes, they are a collection of songs I love and songs I have written and recorded with my good friends. Some of Canada's finest musicians. If you download the tunes please donate. It's though Paypal, the most recognised and well respected internet commerce portal. Please donate from the "Make a Donation" button. It will take you right to the highly secure Paypal portal. If you'd like to donate through snail mail, that's cool too. My contact info is on my contact page. Thank you all for your support worldwide!!!

Because he's a school teacher, Mike Clark doesn't hit the road nearly as often as many of his musical peers.
But when spring break rolls around, the Calgary based horn player, song writer and bandleader does his best to take advantage of the situation, and this year a short haul up Queen Elizabeth
II brought his band to Blues on Whyte for a six-night stand.
Finishing up the engagemnet today with a short matinee and three evening set, Clark's quintet offers up a varied combination of musical touchstones and lays them all out with authority and conviction.
Like the best of '70s southern
rock band, Clark's outfit can slickly traverse the progressions in a soul-steeped Memphis-born jem, put the sting on a Magic Sam-influenced blues tune, or paste a couple of layers of spot on harmonies onto an original countrified ballad.
Equally impressive is the way Clark and his group, includes quitar ace Johnny V and drummer Thom Moon, who was Ian Tyson's right-hand man for years, present material with such a perfectly paced flow.
Kicking into a Tuesday night set with a New Orleans-basted original titled The Red Mile Strut, Clark's tenor sax barked out lines with the same kind of sway and intensity one hears on recordings from greats like David (Fathead) Newman.
Where the River Meets the Sea suddenly puts patrons on the dance floor in the clutch mode as the dreamy ballad produced a pulse that may have turned the tempo down but kept the heat on high.
Hardcore blues fans weren't shut out either, as renditions of Willie Dixon's Hoochie coochie Man and Little Walter's My Babe locked into the 50's Chess Records sound that defines post-war Chicago blues. Johnny V shone on both numbers with solos that were filled with sonic lightening bolts that creatively combine everything from the sting of Albert King to the chordal complexities first mined by Charlie Christian.
Throw in some fine vocals from bassist Greg Carroll and the understated purr of Steve Tzachev's keyboards, and you've got a unit that can slide from swampy to soulful in a heartbeat.

Johnny Max pegs Clarkology as one of the Top Ten Blues CDs of 2005 on his Radio Show Sunday Night Blues!

Livin Blues Magazine has ranked "Clarkology" as #2 in it's top ten Blues releases for 2005.
Check it out at http://www.livinblues.com/cdreviews2006/topten2005.asp

Clarkology has made the top one hundred albums of 2005 at Alberta's best radio station CKUA
Coming in at #100 I am proud to have my album listed with such greats for 2005.
http://www.ckua.com/charts/2005top100.html

The Mike Clark Band will be hosting the new BIG SLICK Jam Session at the Red Onion on Sunday Afternoons from 3-7 PM.

I have been once again nominated for a prestigious Maple Blues Award, in the category of Horn Player of the Year. I am humbled and very honoured by this nomination and would like to thank the folks at Maple Blues Magazine for giving me the nod. Online voting commences on November 15, 2005 at www.mapleblues.ca I am aslo proud to say that two of my bandmates Johnny V and Amos Garrett are also up for awards this year. Please log on and vote for the western contingent!

Clarkology has been pegged at number 6 for May at WVGN in the Virgin Islands
www.wvgn.org
God I'd love to play down there!!