Mike Marshall

Mike Marshall is among the state-of-the-art players of fresh instrumental music. In the beginning rooted in bluegrass, Marshall offers consistently explored all of the likelihood of his stringed devices. A indigenous of Pa, Marshall was raised in Lakeland, Florida. At age 18, he received the Florida condition fiddle and mandolin championships. After carrying out with sunlight Bluegrass Males, Marshall relocated towards the Western Coast. Immediately after dealing with David Grisman around the film rating of The Ruler from the Gypsies in 1985, Marshall was asked to become listed on the important David Grisman Quintet. Through the five years (1985-1990) that he was an associate from the quintet, Marshall toured with Stéphane Grappelli, Tag O’Connor, Tony Grain, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, and fellow Grisman bandmember Darol Anger. Pursuing his departure from Grisman’s group, Marshall continuing to utilize fiddler Anger like a duo and, alongside pianist Barbara Higbie and bassist Michael Manring, inside a folk/chamber group, Montreux. Marshall and Anger also collaborated, alongside bassist Todd Phillips, banjo participant Tony Trischka, and guitarist David Grier, inside a bluegrass/jazz/traditional/folk group, Psychograss. Marshall co-founded the present day Mandolin Quartet and takes on Brazilian music with Choro Famoso. Marshall in addition has regularly collaborated with Edgar Meyer, Jerry Douglas, Tag O’Connor, and Sam Bush inside a bluegrass superband, Power in Figures. Marshall has created several albums including recordings by Laurie Lewis, Alison Dark brown, Jennifer Berezan, and Tony Furtado. Marshall’s 1st solo recording, 1989’s Gator Strut, spotlighted his jazz-meets-bluegrass strategy, as well as the follow-up, 1997’s Brasil: Duets (reissued as Brazil: Duets in 2005), centered on the Brazilian affects on his music, offering duets with Edgar Meyer, Michael Manring, and Béla Fleck. In 2003, Marshall teamed up with mandolinist Chris Thile release a In to the Cauldron, an excellent record of duets between your two exploring from traditional and traditional music to modern numbers created in collaboration. The entire year 2003 also noticed the discharge of Serenata (with the duo of Marshall and pianist Jovino Santos Neto) for the recently formed Experience Music label, focused on the exploration of Brazilian and different other musics. Following releases on Experience Music possess included 2004’s Mike Marshall & Choro Famoso, 2006’s New Phrases (Novas Palavras) by Marshall and Hamilton De Holanda, 2007’s Mike Marshall and Darol Anger with Vasen, 2009’s Mike Marshall’s Big Trio, and 2010’s Caterina Lichtenberg and Mike Marshall, the last mentioned pairing Marshall with current wife Lichtenberg, also a mandolinist.