My mind is smoking from the last 72 hours: Thursday night show at Biddy’s; studio session at Thundering Sky; house concert at the Traeger’s on Saturday night. This string of events provoked fantasies of pursuing music full-time, and will go down as one of the great music-oriented weekends in a long, long time. Here are [...]

Summer crept in like an earth worm this year, its slow, plodding pace across an endless plain of wet grass. In celebration, my good friends Kate and Jay decided to throw a solstice party and hired me, Courtney Brocks and Jeff Hawkinson to perform. The weather held out, and in a week of rainy days, [...]

At the risk of redundancy, when did we stop believing the sun was god? When you think about it, we obviously wouldn’t exist without it. Its sheer ability to rouse the imagination and turn drones into workers is unignorable. Trees lean over other trees just to get more of it. Birds sing at its mere [...]

Tonight (Friday, June 19), I’ll be performing in Portsmouth,NH on the Pockets Garden Tour from 5-8 PM. The performance is a benefit for the South Church. Come see how the other half lives. Lots of other cool local musicians throughout the tour as well. This event is weather pending, but we’re praying for dry conditions.

Marty Solo 1-4PM Private Party

With Pondering Judd Dover, NH

With Courtney Brocks & Jeff Hawkinson Rochester, NH (Private)

There’s something about playing on Biddy’s deck. The uncontrollability factor is contagious. You just never know what you’re going to see, hear, or smell (ok, so the last piece isn’t that enticing, but hey). But isn’t that how summer is in general? It’s an uncanned season full of energy and surprises, narrow misses at every [...]

I bought my first record when I was five, Beach Boys Endless Summer. I had a little blue turn table on the nightstand next to my bunk bed. I’d close my eyes and listen to that record for hours. It was truly the first time I’d ever dreamed about playing music, and once I purchased [...]

Marty solo Unitarian South Church Benefit Portsmouth, NH (Location TBA) Tickets – More Info