Third generation musician, raised on the music that came out of the American Deep South. Mark Porter plays acoustic and Dobro slide guitar with a stomp board underfoot, and sings in a voice people keep comparing to Russell Morris. The material runs from Delta blues through Texas to Chicago and New Orleans, Robert Johnson through to Stevie Ray Vaughan, mixed with his own earthy originals and a folk edge. Raw, but never overplayed. He's performed at the Gympie Music Muster, Agnes Water Blues Roots and Rock, the Rotorua Blues Festival in New Zealand, the Festival of King Island in Tasmania and the Airlie Beach Festival of Music. He can bring his own gear, or work off a vocal mic, DIs and an amp for the Dobro. A four-piece blues band is available as well.
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Deep South blues played on a Dobro resonator and a Maton acoustic, with a stomp board underfoot doing the work a rhythm section would normally do. The material runs from the Mississippi Delta across Texas and up to Chicago. Mark's voice draws comparisons to Russell Morris often enough that it's worth mentioning. It's raw, and deliberately so. Nothing overplayed, nothing tidied up.
Two ways to do it. If you're running a festival with a system in place, Mark needs a vocal mic, a DI for the Maton acoustic, an amp for the Dobro and a DI for the stomp board. Give that list to your sound engineer and it'll be understood. Otherwise he can turn up with his own gear and handle it himself, which suits smaller rooms and private bookings.
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