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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.

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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.  

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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.)

Img87.png"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!" Play AudioMP3 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!  

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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 LyricsVideo 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!   

              

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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.

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