Events 2004

Charity event, with Mike Bradbury -Barton-under-Needwood, Dec 22nd 2004

With Mike Bradbury

Coventry - St. Joseph the Worker Church Hall, Canley, Dec 18th 2004
                                  guest artist - Steve Brook

“..........what a real treat we had. Mark sang some of his own songs one which was ‘Peace on Christmas Day’ a song which he had written regarding the soldiers in the first world war having a game of football amidst all the killing on Christmas day. How lovely it was to sing along to some of the beautiful Christmas carols and some of John’s  [Denver] Christmas songs.   Mark’s rendition of ‘Oh Holy Night’ was just wonderful.

Steve Brook opened up the second half of the concert with a fun rendition of ‘Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer’. He also sang a few of his own songs.

As well as Mark doing the concert with Steve as guest, they both sang together - this was truly beautiful, especially ‘The Peace Carol’ in which they harmonized perfectly.Mark finished the concert with his beautiful song ‘The Sweetest Voice of All’ and I am sure with the applause and standing ovation he got - he knew how much he was appreciated.”

                                                                                                                    Irene Kavanagh

With Mack Bailey, Chris Nole and Mark Cormican - Aspen, Colorado    October 11th 2004

With Mark Cormican, Mack Bailey and Chris Nole
                 (Photo courtesy of Mary Ledford)

Thurles - Ireland, September 13th 2004

Brean - Somerset, August 7th 2004

Coventry - St. Joseph the Worker Church Hall, Canley, May 15th 2004

“Yet again at this concert, Mark confirmed his status as a very competent performer and songwriter - his voice seems to get stronger and better each time I see him!

I first met Mark at a Denver Day some 2 years ago, we got chatting about JD’s guitar playing and I said I had always wanted to play Rhymes and Reasons . . . .PROPERLY . . . .I had my guitar with me and Mark showed me the intro . . . ( - something I had been trying to find for years!)

Later that day Mark said he would probably be playing a few songs. Sure enough later Mark went up ‘on stage’ and started setting up . . . I noticed people stopped talking and were turning their chairs round to face the front . . . I thought ‘this may be good then’ . . .

At the Coventry gig on 15th May, Mark played for over 2 hours and he showed us that he can write some very moving songs. He can also ‘deliver’ a song, which is not an easy task. Great concert Mark, and let there be more!”

                                                                        Pete Harcom, FoJD newsletter, Summer 2004

“The concert was fantastic. Mark had structured it so that it told us something of his life story. Almost all of the songs were his own, most we had never heard before. There were a few John Denver songs and some by David Mallett.

He began with Follow Me which he said he first heard on a coach trip with his parents as a young boy....

He took us through his early life. He told us how The Garden Song had helped him to apppreciate being outside and was also a metaphor for life.......Mark sang it differently from the way John used to do it. There was more variation in the melody. I don`t know if he had been influenced by David Mallett’s version, who, of course, wrote this song.....I loved the way he sang it.

As well as the David Mallett songs Garden Song and You Say That The Battle Is Over, he sang a beautiful song written by him called Summer of My Dreams.

He told us that he had written three tribute songs to John Denver.....and sang one of them...that was inspired by something that Erma [John’s mother] had said to him.

Towards the end he sang Calypso and, of course, everyone joined in with gusto.

He ended the concert with his beautiful song Another Sunrise, and then a new special song he had written for all of us. This was such a lovely thing to do. At the end there was a standing ovation and he looked rather overwhelmed, but it was no more than he deserved.”

                                                                      Sylvia Ashton, FoJD newsletter, Summer 2004

Supporting Mack Bailey - Barton-under-Needwood, March 27th 2004

With Mack Bailey

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