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Mollie Weaver
http://www.mollieweaver.com
mollie@mollieweaver.com
 Mollie is a
native of Colorado and began singing as a little girl, growing up
in a family of musicians. She desired to further her study at the
Conservatory of Music in Kansas City, where she studied vocal
performance under world-renowned opera singer/performer Michael
Cousins. Entering UMKC on both academic and vocal scholarships,
Mollie soon graduated with honors. During her tenure at the
University, she made a name for herself by performing in many
operas, musicals and both jazz and choir concerts with nationally
acclaimed conductor/professor Dr. Eph Ely. Not only was she
vocally active within the University, but independently as well.
Mollie quickly became familiar with the local recording studios in
the Kansas City area, doing television and radio jingles, singing
on a variety of albums and several conventions throughout the
United States. Most of 2001 Mollie spent performing in Kansas City
a lead role she developed in the new Sticks of Thunder high-energy
production produced by VPR Creative Group.
Mollie has performed at Coffman and Arrowhead stadiums in Kansas
City, the Paramount Theatre, Magness Arena and the Pepsi Center in
Denver, the Denver Coliseum, on Channel 9 and on Denver radio
stations - most recently a live performance on KYGO to promote her
summer concerts. Singing with orchestras, big bands, and with such
entertainers as Jay Leno, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Tracy Byrd, Jimmy
Ibbotson of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Jim Salestrom, Jenny
McCarthy, and for as many as 60,000 people, Mollie used her vocal
versatility. While recording on albums, jingles for
television/radio and musicals, she would often be found working a
part time job or teaching dance and music lessons.
For the past four years she has performed around the country in
the John Denver Tribute concerts to benefit many organizations
like challenge aspen, cystic fibrosis, dyslexia, and more. Mollie,
along with former friends and members of John Denver's band
including Jim Horn, Pete Huttlinger, Chris Nole, Michito Sanchez
and Bill Danoff, perform these very special tribute concerts.
Mollie knew John Denver as well as Kris O'Connor, who was John's
close personal friend, road manager and co-producer for 27 years.
Kris and Mollie produced "Love, Mollie" in 1997 and "Mollie" in
2000. Both albums were recorded in Nashville with musicians that
have recorded and performed with John Denver, Faith Hill, Shania
Twain, Garth Brooks, The Rolling Stones, Billy Joel, Wynonna, Alan
Jackson, Joe Cocker, Elton John, Louise Mandrell, Vince Gill,
Travis Tritt, Lionel Ritchie, The Beach Boys, John Lennon, James
Taylor, Barbara Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Ringo Star, José
Feliciano, The Supremes, Trisha Yearwood, George Burns, Andy
Griggs, Clint Black, Eric Clapton and Tina Turner to name a few!!
The songwriters who approached and gave Mollie their songs to
record have written songs for some of the artists listed above.
Mollie has promoted her CD's through headlining in concerts around
Colorado and the western states, performing with the same band
from Nashville that she recorded with. With a beautiful voice that
appeals to all ages and her four-octave range, Mollie has the
unique ability to sing a broad range of styles from pop to
classical and everything in between! The concerts she gives are
examples of her versatility as a vocalist and performer.
Mack Bailey
http://www.mackbailey.com
mack@mackbailey.com
 You can tell a
lot about singer/songwriter Mack Bailey by the musical company he
keeps. He once sang backup to Vince Gill and Amy Grant, only to
have them sing backup to him a song later. The Grammy winning
Jordanaires sang backup on his CD Why I'm Here. Mary Chapin
Carpenter sang on his first album - which was produced by Bill
Danoff of "Country Roads" and "Afternoon Delight" fame. John
Denver once sang with Bailey on stage. And Denver's long-time
producer, Kris O'Connor produced Bailey's collection of songs,
Through Your Eyes. Three of Denver's former band members, Jim
Horn, Chris Nole and Pete Huttlinger played on the album. Bailey
is also a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, where
he used to jam with Jim Lauderdale.
Bailey's rich melodic voice earned him the Best Male Vocal honors
in the Traditional Folk category at the 1992 Washington Area Music
Awards. Four times he's been chosen to sing the national anthem
for the Baltimore Orioles' home games. He advanced yet another
step toward artistic immortality when his song "High Gear" was
featured on National Public Radio's irreverent and wildly popular
"Car Talk." He has been called "DC area's most perfect tenor."
While other kids his age were locking onto rock music, Bailey was
listening to his father's old Limeliters and New Christy Minstrel
folk albums. "I played them all the time when I was growing up,"
he says. "I just loved their harmonies. I loved how their voices
worked together. It was fun music. They just struck a chord that
could take me away and make me feel great." Later, under the sway
of John Denver's music, he taught himself to play the guitar.
Although Bailey would go on to earn his degree at the North
Carolina School of the Arts, he transferred briefly to the
University of North Carolina. It was here that he got his first
taste of club performing, working with the locally popular Blue
Moon Saloon Band.
Once out of school, Bailey moved to New Hampshire to become the
in-house minstrel for the Mount Washington Hotel. "It gave me a
chance to have a different audience each week," he explains. "But
I still had a core group of supporters at the hotel."
After four years in New Hampshire, Bailey relocated to Maryland to
work as bar manager and weekend entertainer at a friend's
restaurant. Here he met the Hard Travelers, a folk group
originally formed at the University of Maryland in the 1950s and
then reunited for occasional gigs more than 20 years later. Bailey
continues to perform with the group and has recorded five albums
with it.
Bailey moved on, this time to the renowned King of France Tavern
in Annapolis, Maryland. In addition to working as a solo act, he
also hosted the "Mack Bailey Folk Jam" series. It featured
performances by folk acts that were touring the region. In the
mid-80's, Bailey began involving himself in vibrant folk scene in
Washington, DC. This led to the recording of his first album, On
My Way, in 1988. That effort was followed by Just Another Thursday
Night (a live album) in 1990 and a children's album, Friends, in
1995.
As a wandering troubadour in his own right, Bailey has commanded
the stages of such famed venues as the Birchmere, in Alexandria,
Virginia; Passims, in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the Bluebird,
in Nashville. He has played many festivals, among them Rocky Gap,
Philadelphia Folk Festival, Kerrville, Bethlehem Musikfest and the
World's Fair in Knoxville. In addition, Bailey has opened for or
shared the stage with such notables as Alabama, Vince Gill, Amy
Grant, Randy Travis, Chet Atkins, Brooks and Dunn and John Denver.
One of Bailey's high points was being asked to fill in for the
Limeliters' absent tenor when this beloved group from his
childhood played the World Folk Music Concert in Washington.
Bailey composed and performed the soundtrack music for the PBS
specials, Block Island - A Gift Of The Glaciers and Smith Island -
Land Water People Time. And he co-wrote the theme for the Johns
Hopkins Children's Miracle Network telethon.
Each October since the fall of 1999, Bailey has performed in " A
Musical Tribute To John Denver," a series of concerts by Denver's
band members and friends to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation, Challenge Aspen and the National Dyslexia Foundation.
Besides writing, performing and recording, Bailey is musically
active in several medical and environmental causes, among them
Maryland Therapeutic Riding, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the
Johns Hopkins Children's Center, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
Mack also performs regularly in nursing homes and Alzheimer's
units playing group concerts and individual outreach.
Noting both his voice and sense of mission, former Limeliter Glenn
Yarbrough dubbed Mack "the next great singer in folk music."
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