Date and Time
Saturday, January 18th, 2025
7:00 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Marc Berger
Performing “RIDE”
About the Artist
Marc has toured nationally, performing solo and with his band and has extensively explored the American West, venturing into remote regions of its deserts and mountains. On one such excursion, he discovered “The Big It,”, by A.B. Guthrie, on a revolving bookrack in a Navajo reservation trading post. This impressive collection of Western short stories ignited the idea of using his travels to create a set of songs in the cultural tradition of like-minded American artists like John Ford, Guthrie, and Frederick Remington, celebrating the West’s exotic landscape and timeless appeal.
Marc has performed at Austin’s SXSW Music Festival and The Kerrville and Falcon Ridge Folk Festivals, and has opened shows for Bob Dylan and other national acts. His song, “The Last One,” was a staple of Richie Havens’ concerts for over twenty years. His current release, RIDE, presents ten cinematic recordings capturing the vastness and romance of the American West.
About the Album
“[Ride] is the breathtaking grandeur of the high desert and plateaus suspended between the pioneer days and ten minutes ago…this is country folk music wrought by a working philosopher who’s missed nothing, kept a lot inside for a time, and captured the land.”– FAME (Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange)
Press Quotes:
”"Not the glossy ‘singing cowboy’ style western music of the romanticised past, but gritty, cinematic tales of the real west...at times stripped bare, at other times dramatic and haunting... an experience like no other album I’ve heard this year."
Alan Cackett, Editor, MAVERICK, U.K.
”RIDE is ALBUM OF THE YEAR – “Without a doubt, the greatest discovery for us this year; if not one of the best in our entire existence...makes the writers want to write and singers sing...close your eyes and be transported to the colors of the desert, see the lonesome railroad or smell the fresh air of what is the greatest part of America...an instant American Classic.”
NANOBOTROCK.COM
”"Reads like a love letter to the American West...brims with pure plucky-folk that the likes of The Civil Wars, The Lumineers, and even Norah Jones are bringing to the forefront of popular music, a sad reminder of simpler times most modern Americans will never experience...one part Springsteen and one part Dylan, but with a pure charisma that is all Berger"
Jayvee, TRT! THE ROUNTABLE.COM
