http://www.michaelmandrell.com/ Michael tours regionally and nationally, playing solo as well as with many of the acoustic warrior road tribe, including Jenny Bird and Benjy Wertheimer. He currently makes his home in Portland, Oregon. Featured often on ?Echoes? and many other radio shows as well, Michael's music has found an audience with an ear for the creative side of the new world fusion genre.
Michael tours regionally and nationally, playing solo as well as with many of the acoustic warrior road tribe, including Jenny Bird and Benjy Wertheimer. He currently makes his home in Portland, Oregon.
Featured often on ?Echoes? and many other radio shows as well, Michael's music has found an audience with an ear for the creative side of the new world fusion genre.
Moving to Taos, NM. in 1991, Michael performed with the world fusion group ?Taos? co-producing their CD, ?The Deepening Edge?, released nationally on Blix Street Records. Tunes from this CD have been recently re-released on Blix Street Records beautiful new compilation, ?Fiddlers Green?.
The film Stone Reader by Mark Moskowitz features the tracks "Ancient Art of Soul Travel" and "Ambrosius" from the Great Spiral Dance.
Michael has appeared with: Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, Bill Miller, John Gorka, Kate Wolf, Dave Swarbrick/Simon Nichol, Johnny Cunningham, Spyro Gyra, Carl Struck, California Guitar Trio, William Ackerman, Christine Lavine, Robert Mirabal, Shadowfax, Townes Van Zandt and Steve Fromholtz.