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After beginning like so many of us with piano lessons as a kid, Mark Kreitzer soon fell in love with various musical styles and instruments. Since his first performance with a rock-and-roll band in Junior High School in 1968, Mark has developed his singing and instrumental skills, and in the last 15 years or so, has turned his attention seriously to songwriting as well. An award winning performer and songwriter, (he was named the Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association's "Favorite Multi-instrumentalist" and "Favorite Songwriter" at their 25th anniversary awards banquet), Mark has appeared at folk and bluegrass festivals, in concert, on television and radio, including the Prairie Home Companion, on recordings and with such bands as The Rocky Mountain Oysters, The Wisconsin River Boys, Harmonious Wail, The Northern Shovelers, Urban Renewal Bluegrass, Becky Schlegel, Brian Wicklund and Chris Silver, and has also shared the stage with Tom Paxton, Alan Munde, Joe Carr, Don Stiernberg and Tony Trishka. He is currently a member of the award winning Middle Spunk Creek Boys, a band which coincidentally also began performing in 1968. The band's last two critically-acclaimed recordings feature many of Mark's compositions. (Their fourth recording, "Table for One," is getting great reviews from both the local and national press. Their previous release "No One Else" got no less than a rave review from Bluegrass Unlimited, the leading Bluegrass magazine.) In addition to the Middle Spunk Creek Boys, Mark's songs have been recorded by Joe Carr and Alan Munde, Becky Schlegel and the Sparetime Bluegrass Band.
What people are saying about Mark's music.
"The addition a couple of years ago of Madison transplant Mark Kreitzer gave [the Middle Spunk Creek Boys] a shot in the collective arm. Kreitzer gives The Middle Spunk Creek Boys a new sound and feel. That his entry into Spunkdom would shake the clubhouse rafters is inevitable, since he's a prolific songwriter and plays about three thousand instruments."
by Adam Granger, Inside Bluegrass, December 2000, vol. 26 No. 12
"Mark Kreitzer's "Little Willie's Return" and "He Died Alone" are topical compositions that could have been snatched right from the headlines of today's newspapers."
by Les McIntyre, copyright 2000 by Bluegrass Unlimited
"Bluegrass is merely their (the Middle Spunk Creek Boys) jumping-off point. To that, they add smooth, Peter-Paul-without-Mary vocals and, since they write most of their own material, modern folk and folk-rock progressions and melodies, and nice rhythmic touches. Mark Kreitzer wrote eight of the album's nine originals "Time and Time Again," by Mr. Kreitzer [is] also uptempo. Probably the best way to describe it is to have you think of Michael Nesmith's "What Am I Doin' Hanging 'Round" but with more of a quirky rhythm to the words. After a few more originals, including "My Luck Has Changed" with its intriguing 5/4 bridge, the album closes with what has quickly become a favorite of mine; "There's No One Else," a slow, pensive number that sounds like the kind of work done by the rock group the Jayhawks. If it were possible to wear out a CD from repeated play, that cut would be in danger."
Copyright 1999 Bluegrass Unlimited
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| A beautiful ballad about a guy who knows he messed up, but good! |
CD: Out and About
Label: Okey Dokey Records
Credits: Mark Kreitzer © 2002 |
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| This is a peppy instrumental featuring guitar and mandolin ala Russ Barrenburg. | |
Credits: Mark Kreitzer © 2001 |
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| A romantic instrumental. | |
Credits: Mark Kreitzer © 2001 |
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| This one is pretty self-explanatory. | |
Credits: Mark Kreitzer © 1986 |
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| This is about a love affair that's been going on for years. | |
Credits: Mark Kreitzer © 2001 |
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