This really nice article ran in the Wisconsin State Journal last Friday. It profiles and the band and I, and discusses our upcoming show on the Monona Terrace Rooftop on Thursday June 28th!
"One Mississippi" has won a top-5 spot in the country category in the 2011 Great American Song Contest and has earned Mark an 'Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting Award!' You can view all the winners and the GASC site HERE.
Mark and the band will be one of the featured performer's at this year's Madison Area Music Awards on June 2nd, at the Capitol Theater in Madison, and will be headlining the awards show after-party at the Brink Lounge. Mark has is once again in the running for Best Male Vocalist and Pop Performer of the Year. For more information on the MAMA's please visit www.TheMAMAS.org.
Madison Magazine recently featured 4 of the top guitar players in the Madison Area, including myself, John Masino, Aaron Williams, and Pat Peterson. Check out the picture below to see the article.
I'll be taking place in this year's "Project M", the musical reality show competition put on by the folks at 105.5 Triple-M in Madison. There are 9 contestants this year and we'll be given weekly songwriting assignments, and have one week to write, and then perform the songs 'live' at the station. Each week one contestant will be ELIMINATED, voted off the island, and as they put it at the station 'killed'. If you want to find out more about the show...and help me keep from dying, check out the information at the Project M website. I think you're gonna love my first song!
I've already got one up on the site and Facebook, but I'll be posting more videos from my recent performance at the 2011 Country Radio Seminar in the days ahead!
here's the YouTube line: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4WUszemnDk
Next week Wednesday, I'll be heading down to Nashville to be the featured performer at the Broadjam Showcase at the 2011 Country Radio Broadcasters Seminar! I'll be in good company, with great country artists performing throughout the convention. You can learn more about the seminar and check out the full schedule of events at www.crb.org.
It's that time of year again. Round 1 voting for the 2011 Madison Area Music Awards has begun and runs until March 21st. I've been entered in a number of categories this year and need your votes to advance to the next round! You can cast your votes by visiting www.broadjam.com/mamas. Thanks for your support!
My tune "One Mississippi" has taken 3rd place at the 2010 Great Lakes Songwriting Contest! Winners were announced today and considering there were over 700 songs entered, third place is pretty sweet. You can check out the GLSC at 
www.greatlakessongwritingcontest.net. Congrats to all the winners!
Local Sounds Magazine did a nice Q&A interview with me and a great CD review! You can check them out by following these links:
Q&A http://magazine.localsounds.org/2010/12/19/mark-croft-doing-the-work/
Review http://magazine.localsounds.org/2010/12/19/mark-croft-%e2%80%93-evening-flood/
Mark's latest CD, EVENING FLOOD, is now available for purchase and download! Visit the store at MarkCroftMusic.com to order your copy today!
The fourth studio release by the Madison based singer/songwriter and the follow up to his MAMA-award-winning EP, The Possibility of Disaster (Slothtrop Records, 2009) Evening Flood celebrates a significant milestone for Mark, who embarked on a personal and professional journey to take his music to the next level. Croft confirms, “I was really looking to raise the bar on my own work as a songwriter and recording artist, and I’m proud to say that I think I accomplished that goal with Evening Flood.”
Announcing the release of the first single off my latest CD Evening Flood! Written in the wake of the gulf oil spill, "The Gas Is On" is now available for your listening pleasure exclusively on Facebook. You can preview the song by visiting my Facebook Fan Page. While you're there, make sure you 'LIKE' my page if you haven't already!
I'm very proud to announce my new partnership with La Quinta Inn & Suites of Madison!
La Quinta Inn & SuitesMadison American Center 5217 E. Terrace Drive Madison, WI 53718
My sincerest thanks to everyone who contributed to the ChipIn campaign! With your contributions WE raised $2700.00! This will go a long way to helping me make, what I'm confident will be, a fantastic CD! I will be making my donations to the Red Cross Haitian Relief Fund & the UW Carbone Cancer Center this week!
There are only a few more days to donate to my ChipIn campaign to help me raise funds to make my next full-length CD! The campaign ends this Saturday, May 15th. If you've been thinking about donating, now is the time. You can find out more by visiting the 'ChipIn' page at my website or by visiting http://markcroft.chipin.com/new-record-fund.
Thank you to all of you who voted for me for the Madison Area Music Awards. Your votes helped me take home FIVE awards this past weekend including: Pop Artist, Album, and Song of the Year, as well as Male Vocalist and Best Video!
Don't forget to vote for me in the 2010 Madison Area Music Awards! Round 2 ends APRIL 28TH!!! The awards show is on Saturday, May 8th. You can vote by visiting www.themamas.org. I'm nominated in 7 categories including:
Artist of the Year
Pop Performer of the Year
Pop Album of the Year - The Possibility of Disaster
Male Vocalist
Video of the Year - Don't Speak
Pop Song - Momma Don't Come Around
Folk/Americana Song - Never Going Back
All the proceeds from the MAMA's go to put musical instruments in the hands of kids in the Madison Area!
Also...
My ChipIn Campaign to raise funds to record my next full-length CD is May 15th! If you're thinking about donating please do! I need all the help I can get.
As of today I have received more than $2500.00 in donations! Incredible! Thanks so much to those of you who have already donated! There's a long way to go though and your help is greatly appreciated. And don't forget; 10% of all money raised will go to benefit the Red Cross Haitian Relief Fund and the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
Check out the "ChipIn" page at www.markcroftmusic.com for more information and to donate.
Thank you for all you support!
Round 1 of the 2010 Madison Area Music Award's voting ended on the 18th and the nominees were announced on Saturday, Mar. 27th. I've been nominated in SEVEN categories and am tied for 1st for the most nominations! Thank you to those of you who voted for me in the first round!
Round 2 is now open and you can vote for the WINNER in each category by visiting www.themamas.org. While you're there please consider voting for me in each of these categories:
I’m very pleased to announce that the music video for “Don’t Speak” is now up for your viewing pleasure on the web! Click here to view the video and the full credit list. It is also linked up on Facebook at my music page and on my website on the ‘WATCH’ page.
A great deal of work went into the production of this video by director/producer John Urban of the Urban Photo Company, as well as many people who pitched-in to help out on this project over the past 9 months. Well done Mr. Urban, and ‘thank you’ to all of you who helped make this video a reality!
After you check out the video, please visit the Madison Area Music Awards website and consider voting for it for “Music Video of the Year” in the 1st round of voting for the 2010 MAMA’s. While you’re there…please vote for me in several other nomination categories:
Pop Album
Pop Artist
Pop Song
Folk Song
Rock Song
Male Vocalist
& Artist of the Year
The 1st round of voting ends March 18th. The nominees will be announced shortly after, followed by another round of voting to determine the winners.
There is a small fee to join Broadjam and vote in the MAMA’s, but as always, the money raised will go to put musical instruments in the hands of students in Madison area school music programs!
