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“Mike Delaney…embodies the whole spirit of our community of
folk musicians in Massachusetts… Everybody loves him.” — Marilyn Rae Beyer, host on Boston
Folk Radio, WUMB 91.9 FM.
(Compositions by Elizabeth Kennett.)
My new
CD "EVENING NEWS", covering a range of topics from
light-hearted to deadly-serious perspectives, will be available in
August. You can get more info on my CD page. "1-800-CONFESS"
is, of course, still available.
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Welcome to
MikeDelaney.org! (DOT.ORG because he is a
non-profit.)
Mike Delaney is a Boston-area singer-songwriter and
part of the music group "New England Weather" (www.neweather.com).
His humorous original songs and parodies cover a
wide range of topics from himself ("The Hunk" and "Mando Tango") to
the entire country ("If We Only Had a Brain"). In between are
excursions into the world of natural science ("Tofu, the Vegan
Killer Whale"), literature ("Daddy, Who's Mark Twain?"), automated
phone systems ("1-800-CONFESS"), women's health ("Mammogram,
M'am?"), sports ("Red Sox Dream"), the oxymoronic business of folk
music ("I'm changing my name to DOT.COM" and "The Naked Open Mic"),
parts of the human anatomy ("Colonoscopy", "Bare Midriff", and
"Eyebrows"), and, of course, his raging ego ("It Is, In Fact, Always
About Me").
He has been deemed an "accomplished amateur" by
Marilyn Rae Beyer, the music director of WUMB, Boston Folk Radio,
and Tom Paxton commented that at least one of his songs was "not
bad". Anne Hills called the song 1-800-CONFESS
"brilliant"!
Mike's CD "1-800-CONFESS" was released inn
2006. His second CD, with New England Weather, was released
in 2007. He is finishing up a new CD.
9/2/07 - "Other World Eve", what I'm calling
a co-write with Bob Franke (www.bobfranke.com) and Pete and Maura
Kennedy (www.kennedysmusic.com), was performed
at the WUMB Summer Acoustic Music Week in August. It honors all the
SAMW instructors and students, my music friends, and the view into
my dreams fostered by Pete and Maura Kennedy. Here's the live recording
and lyrics.
8/27/07
- "Peace Through War" is back at NUMBER ONE on
the front page on Neil Young's "Living With War Today" song
list (www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwsongspage.html). It has been in the Top 10 for the last 7 weeks and
three weeks at #1. That puts me about an inch from Neil Young (my
name to his picture), which is closer than I ever thought I'd get.
"Terror Rainbow" is also on the list and "Peace Through War" is also
listed at www.polititunes.com.

6/16/07 -
The New England Weather CD Release Party and Katrina Benefit
was a big success. The CD, "A Little Sun; A Little Rain" is
available from my CD page.
4/8/07 -
"Low Carb" has been identified as one of the "best
new climate songs" by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock (www.ecoshock.org).
3/14/07 -
My songs "Trash
This Planet" and "Low
Carb" are listed on Step It Up 2007!
(www.stepitup2007.org). We
are organizing a National Day of Climate
Action--April 14th, 2007. On this one spring day,
there will be hundreds and hundreds of rallies all across the
country. We hope to have gatherings in every state, and in
many of America's most iconic places: on the levees in New Orleans,
on top of the melting glaciers on Mt. Rainier, even underwater on
the endangered coral reefs off Key West.
2/19/06 -
I've sort of co-written a song "First Day" with Maura
Kennedy (www.kennedysmusic.com) as
part of a dream-inspired songworkshop. Maura had the dream and
directed a meditation. I took the images from the meditation and
wrote the song. It's on my New Songs
page.
9/16/06
- New England Weather had a great time playing today
at the Boston Folk Festival. Check it out at www.BostonFolkFestival.org.
9/10/06: "Colonoscopy" was played on Dr.
Demento. It was played in between a
song called "My Pants Fell Down" (Trout Fishing In America) and one
called "Working Where The Sun Don't Shine" (Bowser & Blue).
8/27/06 - "I'D LIKE TO BE MIKE DELANEY" by Bob
Franke and performed by "The Wannabees" (Pete and Maura Kennedy) on
dueling ukuleles. I'm back from WUMB's Summer Acoustic Music Week,
and what a week it was. The highlight for me was a response to my
song "I Wanna Be Maura Kennedy". I was totally surprised by the
honor. An MP3 of performance is HERE. How many people can
say that they have a song about them written by Bob Franke (www.bobfranke.com) and performed
by the Kennedys (www.kennedysmusic.com)?
(There is also a recording of my song "Mando Slut" on the Mando
page.)
"The Wannabees" (Maura and Pete Kennedy) with Mike. (Photo by
Peter Bortolotti).
3/30/06: JILL IS FREE!!!!! It shows
the power of a song. What should I work on now?
3/22/06:
Please join me in a prayer for Jill Carroll. I think I feel a
connection to her because we both attended the same school and both
work in Boston. Here's my prayer: "Let Jill Go!" MP3 Lyrics
9/26/05 -
Lightning strikes again! I was honored to be asked to play a song on
mandolin with the amazing Guy Davis (www.guydavis.com) at the Boston
Folk Festival this past weekend. Guy is so special and gracious. I
love him!

8/28/05: I had an
amazing time at WUMB's Summer Acoustic Music Week. Here is
a recording of "I Wanna Be Maura Kennedy". MP3 Lyrics. Video by Rob Halper (WMV, 5
Mb) (WMV,
1Mb). Photos by Sandra Waddock (JPG)
and Graham Walker (JPG).
Pete and Maura
Kennedy (www.kennedysmusic.com) were awesome, and such good sports. I
surprised them with this song, and Maura surprised me by jumping on
stage and bopping along with the song. Pete and Maura
embody what is truly special and spritual about music.
Namaste!
(Photo by Bryce Flynn)
(From www.moveon.org)
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What is today's color? If you want to see
how scared you should be, click here or for a
Simpson's alert level, click here. Mike has a song to explain the colors on his
CD. Here are the lyrics.
If you need free software to
Install Democracy, click here.
You can get a New England Weather music
forecast here,
or a real weather report from New England Weather Associates here.
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