Walt Wilkins & Marc Douglas Berardo – Rockville, MD

Walt Wilkins • Marc Douglas Berardo

• Walt Wilkins “Is best described as the Songwriters Songwriter” – Americana Review

“In a modern world thick with instigators — people who seem to wake up each day and decide whether they want to get their enemies or allies the most riled up this time around — Walt Wilkins comes off as an unlikely radical. This is a man at peace, and he’s gonna try like hell to get you right there with him.… In a loud and conflict-rich world, maybe there’s nothing more radical than being the guy who’s already soundtracking the calm after the storm.” – Mike Ethan Messick, Texas Music Magazine

“The best in Wilkins is pretty darn good. His songs have been recorded by Green, Cory Morrow, Brandon Rhyder, and Tommy Alverson. He also has had cuts recorded by Kimmie Rhodes (“Espiritu Santo Bay”), Kenny Rogers (“Someone Somewhere Tonight”), Ricky Skaggs (“Seven Hillsides”), and Ty Herndon (“Big Hopes”).… A version of “Trains I Missed” by Balsam Range has been nominated as song of the year by the International Bluegrass Association. Wilkins also recently earned a star on the South Texas Music Walk of Fame in Corpus Christi.” – Americana Highways
A near-constant presence on the Texas Music Chart since its inception as a songwriter, producer, singer, guitar player, and artist. His organic blend of Texas Music, acoustic rock, blues, country, and folk is a delightful trip through Americana music.

Walt Wilkins is “a songwriter, producer, poet, and troubadour. Wilkins wrote for BMG Nashville for five years. Wilkins has produced many creative records by a variety of notable artists including Brandon Rhyder, Pat Green, Jamie Richards, Sam Baker, Bonnie Bishop, and his wife, Tina Mitchell Wilkins Jumping Dog Studio in Austin TX. Walt was also featured on the TV show Troubadour Texas, a docu-drama, following the lives of various singers and songwriters.

Wilkins spent a solid decade in the Nashville Country Music business trenches, writing songs he wanted to be recorded. He has had 100+ songs recorded by other artists. During his heyday, Ty Herndon made Big Hopes the title of his 3rd album for Sony, and there have been roughly a dozen other songs on major-label records. But it was Pat Green’s recordings of several songs that made Wilkins’ name known in Texas including Poetry, Edens Gate, Wrapped, Carry On, We’ve All Got Our Reasons among others. Wilkins’ work has been likened to the greatest and most timeless of the Texas/American troubadours: Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, and Kevin Welch among others.

• Marc Douglas Berardo “Berardo takes you to a place within yourself to make changes you want to see in the world.” — Mary Jane Twohy, The Village, Sirius/XM Radio

“Marc Douglas Berardo writes songs that are witty without being superficial, intelligent without being ponderous, fun without being silly. He performs them with an infectious verve. On top of that, he doesn¹t seem to have the slightest idea of just how good he is.” David Olney, Songwriter and Performer, Nashville, TN

“High-quality story-telling, picking, and playing.” — Rob Ellen, The Medicine Show Radio Moose Mobile, U.K.

Singer-songwriter/performer and keen observer, Marc Douglas Berardo combines songs that mine the deep feelings and lessons gleaned from real-life characters and situations along with an onstage presence that uses humor and deft storytelling to rally an audience and lead them into a deep and almost spiritual experience. It’s an adventure that brings to mind James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, Guy Clark, or Steely Dan with a touch of Twain or Hunter S Thompson for good measure. It’s a night of laughter and tears that sends an audience home with a dollop of hope. MDB is known for his storytelling songs and unique guitar-picking style. He is nationally recognized for his music and performances.

He has also won a Rammie Award for Best Show of The Year at Ramshead OnStage. Other notable venues include the renowned Bluebird Café in Nashville, The Town Crier Cafe, Narrows Center for the Arts, The Fairfield Performing Arts Center, Tupelo Music Hall, Cafe Lena, The Freight and Salvage, The Katherine Hepburn Theater, The Wildflower Art and Music Festival, Hard Rock Cafe, Anderson Fair (TX), Fiddler’s Dream, and St Anne’s Chapel in Vatican City, Italy.

Berardo opened for or shared a stage with heavyweights such as The Doobie Brothers, The Pousette-Dart Band, Jimmy Lafave, Martin Sexton, 10,000 Maniacs, Walt Wilkins, Red Molly, John Hiatt, The New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Buffalo Springfield, Kevin Welch, Lucy Kaplansky, David Olney, Kim Richey, Will Kimbrough, and Livingston Taylor.

Marc’s new recorded “The Beauty Of This Now” was released on May 31 along with a video “I’m Listening Now”.