JED MARUM

Some Pics from Recent Collaborations

The slide show below has pictures from recent shows among Jed and several Celtic and Roots music friends. There is more info about each of these performers here:

Brian McNeill - is one of the major forces behind the modern revival of Celtic music and folklore. Brian was the founder and a long-time member of the great Battlefield band and he is one the most in-demand Scottish music performers in the world today.

Alasdair Fraser - is recognized throughout the world as one of the finest fiddle players Scotland has ever produced. - SCOTS Magazine

Ed Miller - Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland Ed has become one of North Americas very favorite Celtic and Scottish festival performers. As Steve Winick in The Music Hound puts it, Ed Miller is one of the best singers to emerge from the Scottish folk revival.

John Taylor - Another Scottish ex-pat, John Taylor has become one of the most popular and sought after Scottish Fiddlers in the US.

Tom Leighton - is one Canadas finest exports! A Borealis Recording Artist and performer, Tom also regularly contributes as a studio musician for quite a few of North Americas recording artists.

Paul Mills - has been part of the North American folk music scene and recording industry for over thirty years as an award-winning roots music producer, and as solo and sideman musician/performer on guitar and mandolin.

Karen Mal - enjoys a very fine reputation as a solo performer, singer songwriter. She has also worked all over the US with some of the best known names in Folk and Celtic music from traditional Irish music superstars, Joanie Madden and Cherish The Ladies to Americana Musics chart topper, Slaid Cleaves and many others.

Rick Fielding - known as a musicians musician, Rick was one of Montreal and later Torontos favorite son performers of folk/roots music. For many years Rick hosted Acoustic Workshop on CIUT Radio in Toronto and toured the US, Canada and the UK as a popular solo performer and folklorist.

Publicity Pics

To use one these publicty picutres, click each of the links then choose the one you like and right click that picture, choose "Save As" to your computer.

Hi Res publicity Photo1 - Primary Promo Pic
Photo (c) Kenneth Monroe Wirth, 2007

Hi Res publicity Photo2 - Alternate Pic
Photo (c) Kenneth Monroe Wirth, 2007

Hi Res publicity Photo3 - Alternate Pic
Photo (c) Kenneth Monroe Wirth, 2007

Lonestar Stout Promo Pic Left to right: Mason Brown, Jed Marum
Photo (c) Tracy Ramey, 2007

Album cover FIGHTING TIGERS OR IRELAND
Album cover CROSS OVER THE RIVER

ABOUT THE MUSIC

Jed Marum albums play regularly on Folk/Bluegrass and Celtic radio programs around the world. His music is also distributed widely on all the major MP3 services. Throughout the US each year Jed plays over 150 shows at festival, club and concert venues and his 2007 touring plans include performance dates in Canada and Mexico as well.

Reflected in his song writing and song selection is a keen interest in history and the passing of culture from generation to generation. Jed performs traditional songs and contemporary songs in musical style that is both Celtic and American, with strong Bluegrass roots.

Nicky Rossiter is host of STORIES on Irelands South East Radio says,

"Jed Marum has his genetic roots in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Those genes must come from a long line of bards and storytellers to judge from his recorded output. I have collected a number of albums from this troubadour and he never fails to deliver."

James P. Gannon former Wall Street Journal editor and author of "Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers" writing about one of Jed songs said,

"Prayer from Little Round Top is the song one of the great Irish poets might have written had he marched to Gettysburg with Jeds Irish immigrant from Alabama. The melody seems to well up from some misty glen in Connemara, wrapping the soldiers sad story in a teardrop. It may mark me as a sentimental Irish man to say this, but if you can listen to this haunting song without finding your eyes moistening, then somewhere along lifes way, youve lost your soul."

Jed is known as a gifted singer, a unique and talented player and an accomplished songwriter. He is a warm and comfortable performer with a story to tell and gift for the telling.

Bio - July 2006: Jed Marum Boston Road Records (c) Patrick Malloy, 2006

PUBLICATIONS NEWS

Here are some recent publication highlights for MILES FROM HOME:

• MILES FROM HOME made the "Most Played Albums List" for the first four months of its release in March of 2005, on the FOLK - DJ Playlist, with 125 DJs reporting from a dozen countries.
• Made Rich Warrens "PICK HITS" and "CD of the WEEK" lists (Rich is host of nationally syndicated "The Midnight Special" from WFMT Radio, Chicago)
• Made playlists for Ed Mac Donalds widely syndicated radio program "SIDETRACKS" and a number of other syndicated shows on NPR
• MILES FROM HOME again made the FOLK - DJ "Most Played Albums List" in May 2006, fourteen months after its release - for two songs; LAST DAY OF MAY, a lovely, prayerful Memorial Day tribute written by Michael Troy and Jed Marums CHICKAHOMINY RIVER - a lament inspired by a poem found in the diary of Civil War battle field hospital nurse.
• MILES FROM HOME was selected as best album of the year by several radio statons around the US including:

A few highlights for previous work:

• Jed was listed for two months among "Most Played Artists" for his release of SOUL OF A WANDERER in 2002 on the Folk-DJ-List.
• The title track from SOUL OF A WANDERER was selected for the top 10 Songs of the Year in the J.P. Folk Celtic Music category.
• For the year 2001 Jeds recording of GRACE ranked the #25 Most Played Single Track In Ireland on the European Country Music Charts (the track is included on Jeds 2000 release of STREETS OF FALL RIVER).
• Recorded tracks and songs by Jed Marum have been licensed for use by various TV, film productions and for recording by other recording artists.

FESTIVAL and CONCERT VENUES

A list of Jeds recent Festivals around the USA:

ARCADIA VALLEY HIGHLAND GAMES	Pilot Knob	MO
AUSTIN CELTIC FESTIVAL	Austin	TX
BRITISH ISLES FESTIVAL	Wilmington	OH
CELTIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL OF CENTRAL VA	Ladysmith	VA
CELTIC NATIONS HERITAGE FESTIVAL	Lake Charles	LA
CHICAGO GAELIC PARK IRISH FESTIVAL	Chicago	IL
GENERAL SAM HOUSTON FOLK FESTIVAL	Huntsville	TX
GRAPEFEST	Grapevive	TX
HOUSTON HIGHLAND GAMES	Houston	TX
LUDLOW FOLK FESTIVAL	Ludlow	MA
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST CELTIC FESTIVAL	Gulfport	MS
NORTH TEXAS IRISH FESTIVAL	Dallas	TX
NORTHEAST LOUISIANA CELTIC FESTIVAL	Monroe	LA
POCAHONTAS CIVIL WAR DAYS	Pocahontas	AR
RED RIVER VALLEY BLUEGRASS	Paris	TX
REENACTOR FEST	Chicago	IL
SAN ANTONIO HIGHLAND GAMES	Helotis	TX
SOUTH TEXAS CELTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL	Corpus Christi	TX
TACOMA HIGHLAND GAMES	Graham	WA
TEXAS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL	Arlington	TX
TUCSON FOLK FESTIVAL	Tucson	AZ
WESTON IRISH FESTIVAL	Weston	MO
WINDHAM CIVIL WAR GATHERING	Windham	NY

Recent concert dates at:

• CanTab in Cambridge, MA
• Acoustic Café in Little Rock, AR
• Mucky Duck in Houston, TX
• Open Door Coffeehouse in Arlington, TX
• Uncle Calvins Coffeehouse in Dallas, TX
• OFlahertys Ballad Room in New Orleans, LA
• The Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, MA
• and many many others

Here is a short YouTube clip of a traditional Jacobite poem set to music, an abbreviated version of WHITE COCKADE on a brand new Larrivee L-09, filmed at home, one Feb night in 2007.
Traditional Lyric, Music (c) Jed Marum 2004

Here is another short YouTube clip - Buachaill ón Eirne (aka. Come by the Hills) and MacPhersons Rant Medley. This is a sample of some DADF#AD tuning finger-style guitar work ... the original recordings are on MAINLY SCOTS.

Yet another short YouTube clip - of an old Scottish traditional favorite, ANNIE LAURIE. This is an example of open tuning finger-style guitar work ... the original recording is on MAINLY SCOTS.

A Quick banjo video of MY GRANDFATHERS CLOCK

Jed Marum music is published through WESTON GRAND ARTS in association with ASCAP.