"Mike is a solid songwriter who takes the stage with comfort, warmth, humanity, and ease"--David Roth, (www.davidrothmusic.com).

"This is the most important song ever written!" --Maura Kennedy, speaking of "I Wanna Be Maura Kennedy" as she invited Mike to play this song in her solo set at a recent concert of The Kennedys (www.kennedysmusic.com).

"You have funny good stuff going on"--Pastor Mustard, host of "The Bluegrass with Mustard Show" on Aspen Public Radio

"Mike is one of best songwriters around, and he is also the host of the tremendous Roslindale Open Mike."--Dan Cloutier, singer-songwriter and host of the Amazing Things open mike.

"Mike Delaney is the Leon Russell of the 21st century"--Barry Spiro, singer-songwriter.

Mike's CD "Evening News" has been characterized by bardicfox of Columbus, Ohio on ebay as "Filk"!!!

"More agreeable than an electrical buzz from a bad transformer!” --Davis Sweet, the world’s foremost authority.

  (Compositions by Elizabeth Kennett.)      (Photo by Ken Porter)

Mike's new CD, "Hey, Java Jo's" is a tribute to Ana Eder-Mulhane, the long-time host of Java Jo's and all the performers over the years. You can get more info on his CD page. "1-800-CONFESS", "Evening News", and "A Little Sun; A Little Rain, are, 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). He has been performing around New England for over ten years, including three times at the Boston Folk Festival. He has opened for Kevin So, David Roth, Les Sampou, Richard Berman, Dave Crossland, and Michael Troy. With others he has opened for Chris and Meredith Thompson, Marc Douglas Berardo, Ferron and Terence Martin. He has been fortunate to play mandolin, guitar, or sing harmony at concerts, coffeehouses, festivals, camps, and open mikes with a number of people, including Guy Davis, Kate Campbell, Bennett Hammond, John Kirk, Mary Flower, Patti DeRosa, Beth DeSombre, and many others.   

Mike's 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, of course, his raging ego ("It Is, In Fact, All 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 debut CD "1-800-CONFESS" was released inn 2006. His second CD, with New England Weather, was released in 2007. "Evening News", was released in  2008 and his latest CD, "Hey, Java Jo's" was released in 2010.

His song "Peace Through War" has been number 1 on Neil Young's "Living With War Today" song compilation for several weeks and in the top 10 for a number of weeks. He eco-bluegrass (green grass?) song, "Trash This Planet" was included on the "Step It Up 2007" web page (www.stepitup2007.org). "Low Carb" was regarded as one of the "best new climate songs" by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock (www.ecoshock.org) and "Colonoscopy" was played on the The Dr. Demento show.

(Photo by Bryce Flynn)

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