Martin Hill, The Martinets, and Tim Davis, Portland, OR 2015
Martin and friends, Portland, OR, August 2015
Martin at Seaside, OR, New Year's Day, 2015
Martin and friends at The White Eagle Saloon, Portland, OR 2014
Martin 2010
Martin, Portland, OR 2013
Martin's sticker image, Copyright 2012 Vertebrate Productions, LLC
Martin and friends at Chehalem Art Affair, Portland, OR 2015
Entertaining Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist recently arrived from the Portland, OR songwriter community, performing a wide range of genres with a remarkable variety of vocal styles. Audiences enjoy his fascinating and often humorous prologues to songs, as well as the occasional sing-along. Surprising and fun, Martin sings songs of emotional depth that range from light to dark. Great versions of cover songs, too! As a fellow Portland songwriter once remarked, "You never know what Martin is going to do next, but you always know it's going to be great!"
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Write a reviewPrice range: $100 - $1200
Languages: English
Gig length: 30 - 180 minutes
Audiences can expect a riveting performance from a good-natured professional artist hailed for his unusually broad range of genres and singing styles. Martin truly reaches audiences through the songs he has written, which receive high acclaim everywhere he plays, with a few covers sprinkled in just for fun. Audience members report laughs, tears, tingles, and sheer happiness when Martin takes them along on his musical journey.
Martin Hill is a restless spirit of music, covering broad terrain in his mad headlong search for genuine creative integrity. Early on, he was awarded vocal scholarships, a teaching assistantship, and a graduate school fellowship to earn his Doctorate in music composition. Over the years, he has performed rock, country, and folk with a variety of groups, including serving as bass player for a touring group, and has also spent time performing Medieval music, British Isles traditional song (electric and acoustic), experimental improvisational music, and jazz. He formed Vertebrate Productions LLC, and released his first CD of postmodern electronic music, selections from which he later displayed as a multimedia performance with large-scale projected synchronized photography and artwork of his own design. He served as an Adjunct Professor of Music Theory and Composition, after which his attention turned to songwriting, which has since been his primary performing and creative focus. Martin moved to Portland, OR to become a part of the songwriting community there, performing solo and with his trio Martin Hill 3, teaching, and presenting workshops at the renowned Artichoke Music, and at Beacock Music in Vancouver, WA. He has recently relocated to the rolling wooded hills of the central U. S., performing house concerts and gigs in surrounding states out of Springfield, MO.
A minimum of one hour prior to the performance should be allowed for set-up and sound-check. The performance space should be a minimum of four feet deep and six feet wide, between any areas designated for speaker stands.
A p. a. system adequate for the performance space is required. If requested, Performer can provide p. a. system for performances in small-to-medium-sized rooms (for performances that require only road travel) for an extra fee. Nearby access to electricity will be needed.
Performer will provide his own instruments and instrument cables (and microphone, if needed).
Typical Set List for a two-set house concert of original songs:
Set 1:
Pass Me By
Everything Must Go
Always Saying Goodbye
Caney River
Be a Light
Hide Away
Angels & Jaguars
Lift Yourself Up
Set 2:
Murder of Crows
I Won't Look Away
Highway 1
I Wish You Were Dead (sing-along)
The Happy Song
Sweet Victoria
Let Me Hide in the Tunnel of Love
The Long Endeavor
A sampling of other artists covered (by request):
The Beatles, The Police, Neil Young, The Eagles, Jethro Tull, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Hank Williams, Cat Stevens, Traffic, Simon & Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, Al Jolson, and many more.
Many pop, rock, folk, and other artists, groups, and songwriters from the Thirties through the Eighties, including The Beatles, The Kinks, Brewer and Shipley, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Waits, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Jethro Tull, Al Jolson, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Peter and Gordon, Johnny Winter, The Who, The Byrds, The Police, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, John Hartford, Chad and Jeremy, Tiny Tim, Pete Seeger, Steppenwolf, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Mott the Hoople, and many more. This is not to mention those in Jazz, Country, Blues, English-Irish-Scottish Traditional Song, Show Tunes, and Classical Music.
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