Mark Blacknell

A singer, songwriter, filmmaker, previous U.S. Sea, and character conservationist, folk-rock devotee Tag Blacknell began carrying out in rings in the middle-’90s after armed service support in the Gulf Battle. Getting started in Pa and Australia, where he went to universities, he ultimately fronted Philadelphia’s Asperilla Mint, created in 1996 with guitarist Kevin Timothy. As time passes off in the first aughts for graduate research and are a state recreation area ranger, he created Blacknell Music group in 2005. Immediately after, he remaining Pennsylvania to immediate and produce this year’s 2009 documentary Woke Up Alive, about encounters throughout a two-year exploration of Israel, where he also performed. His 1st solo record contains some songs created ahead of his amount of time in Israel, some created during the producing from the film, plus some created afterward throughout a multi-year stay static in Maui, Hawaii. This stay included a vacation back again to Israel in 2011, where he recorded many tracks with manufacturer and prior collaborator Noam Lavi. The ensuing debut, Blue Arrow, premiered in 2013 by Mondo Music. With an education and history in conservation policymaking, Blacknell after that relocated to Vero Seaside, Florida, partly to focus on rebuilding the Everglades. His sophomore work, the sometimes politics full-band folk discharge When Rainfall Was Fun, implemented in 2014, once again with manufacturer Noam Lavi however now for the Sugo GROUP label. Immediately after, he began documenting his third full-length record in Orlando, Florida.