TIM MAHONEY TO RECORD AND RELEASE LIVE ALBUM
Tim Mahoney has been a fixture on the Twin Cities live music scene (as well as in most of Minnesota and surrounding states) for 15 years now, and most fans and followers have confirmed and asserted that Mahoney is at his best performing live. That’s why Mahoney is doing something slightly unconventional for his next album release. On Thursday, May 27, Mahoney and his band will perform at Sound Gallery Studios in downtown Minneapolis. Skyy Vodka will sponsor the show and it will be recorded for a live album release, tentatively set for September. Mahoney is giving away a signed guitar and Metro Magazine is doing a photo spread of the event.
“Tim Mahoney has the unique songwriting ability to take every day life, interpret it, and create magic,” says fan Patrick Moes. “I’ve seen his shows where there were less than 200 people and others that had 2,000. Nonetheless, Tim always offered his best and his magic inspired greatness.”
But his music also offers a timeless quality, as evidenced by this fan, Dena Pasicznyk Rasmussen: “Tim’s music was the soundtrack to my youth, and continues to be played in my home 20 years later, making it the soundtrack to my childrens’ youth as well.”
Further evidence of Mahoney’s magic as a live performer, local station Cities 97 has had his song, “Talk To Me,” in rotation for a few years, and it’s a live version of the song that they’ve been spinning. Mahoney will be in studio that week for an interview and to promote the show with some ticket giveaways. This is on the heels of another songwriting honor, literally. It was announced late last month that Mahoney earned an Honorable Mention for the 2009 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) for his song, “What are We Waiting For.” Last year, Mahoney finished third in the Top 40 category of the ISC for “Theme Song,” which he co-wrote with Kevin Kadish.
Tim Mahoney is living proof that great music always speaks volumes, ultimately determining what the listening public wants to hear. 65,000 of those listeners heard Mahoney sing the National Anthem at the Metrodome more than once, but for an artist having this much success without the support of a label, Tim Mahoney’s career is still just getting started. Mahoney, who wins songwriting competitions regularly, won the grand prize in the Great American Song Contest in 2008, and he was also selected in 2008 as one of the Twin Cities’ 40 Under 40 by The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Mahoney has had songs from hisStay/Leave album licensed for eight TV shows last fall including MTV”s “The Hills” and “Life of Ryan,” and E!’s“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and “Living Lohan.” In 2007, Mahoney won the Ray-Ban Never Hide Music Contest, which landed him in a two-page spread in Rolling StoneMagazine’s 40th Anniversary issue. Mahoney has sold over 125,000 units as an independent artist and continues to tour both with his band and as a solo performer. Stay/Leave was also selected by Target as part of its Emerging Artists Program, landing it on the end caps in music sections of 500 Target stores in the Midwest.
Written by: Mike Farley
Published by: David Hitchcock
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- May 11th, 2010 at 10:23 am