Official Site
www.turktunes.com
Funky Power Trio Grounded in Folk
and Rock
Matt Turk is known for his natural style
combining roots, rock and folk music.
He is a
versatile musician, an accomplished guitarist,
songwriter, mandolinist,
and vocalist. Matt is on
stage many evenings of the week throughout
the New
York metropolitan area and surrounding
region. Matt Turk performs solo, with
his band.
Matt Turk has recently performed at Atlanta's
Music Midtown, Berkshire Mountain
Music
Festival, Clearwater's Hudson River Revival,
and hit the scenes for Falcon
Ridge Folk Festival,
Phish's It, and New Orleans' Jazz Fest. He has
performed
with Fiona Apple, Del McCoury,
The Doobie Brothers, Ellis Marsalis, NRBQ, and
Pete Seeger among others.
Recently Matt Turk released his 2nd solo cd
“What Gives” and "Desert Soul" with
Mandolin Caravan (<kevcomusicgroup.com>).
About "What Gives", Thomas
Staudter says it
"musically and lyrically suggests David Bowie, Bruce Cockburn,
U2-in short literate tunes with heart and muscle." Susan Hodara of the New
York Times called Matt Turk a "Rock 'n' Roll Bard" and says "What Gives is
11 tracks of heartfelt roots rock." "What Gives" is produced by Kevin Hupp,
mixed by Peter Moshay (Desree, Hall & Oates), engineered by Jay Newland
(Norah Jones), Matt Turk/guitar/vocals/mandolin, with Kevin Hupp (Maceo Parker,
Joan Osborne)/drums, Jack Daley (Lenny Kravitz)/bass, Saul Zonana and Russ
Irwin (Sting/Aerosmith)/keyboards.
Matt sees his music as a great opportunity to reach out to people and return something to the community - worldwide, using his music to help promote peace; he goes to community organizations to play his music to kids and the elderly. He has graveled throughout the United States, Europe, Africa and the Middle East collecting music. Before setting off on his path, Matt Turk was part of "The Hour", along with Marshall Madow, Carey Harmon (Railroad Earth), Jen Phelps-Montgomery and Luke Patchen (Strangefolk), John Vitarelli, and Mike Mulvey, "The Hour" is best known for being the house band at Ken and Michelle Hoff's and rock promoter Bill Graham's Arrowhead Ranch. For more info about Matt Turk please check out his website.
