Mary Lamont

Genre: Americana
Secondary Genre: Country New York, New York USA Contact

Mary Lamont has been called "Queen of Long Island Country" in Newsday & Christian Science Monitor, voted Band of the Year by NY Metro CMA, & voted Singer/Songwriter of the Year by New Jersey CMA, & is featured on ASCAP.COM's Audio Portraits. Mary was the first American country act to tour China.

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Biography

Called the “Queen of Long Island Country” by Newsday and the Christian Science Monitor, MARY LAMONT has been three times voted Band of the Year by the New York Metro Country Music Association, and was twice voted Female Singer/Songwriter of the Year by the New Jersey Country Music Association.

Born and raised in rural Ontario, Mary is honored as an ASCAP Audio Portrait on ASCAP.COM. She has appeared several times in ASCAP’s prestigious Playback Magazine. Mary and her husband Jim are recipients seven years running for ASCAP Plus Awards, for performance of their original songs.

Mary and husband Jim Marchese are featured in the February 2011 issue of Long Island Pulse Magazine:
http://www.lipulse.com/art-music/article/mary-lamont-and-jim-marchese-muse-on-muse/

Mary hosts the radio show "Down Home Country" once a month on WUSB 90.1 Stony Brook, streaming live on www.wusb.fm

Mary and her band completed a groundbreaking tour of Mainland China, headlining in Shenyang, Dalian, Guiyang, Xiamen, Beijing and Nanjing and have been asked to return. For photos including the China performance tour, please visit WWW.MARYLAMONT.COM.

New York's Local 802 American Fed of Musicians (of which Mary & Jim are members) got together in June 2010 at Hill Country in New York City and raised close to $20,000 to assist their Nashville fellow musicians. Mary and Jim were honored to be part of the lineup which included Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal, Greg Trooper, Eric Weissberg, Footch Fischetti, Roger Mason, Jonatha Brooke, Danny Weiss, Tony Trischka, Skip Ward, Barry Mitterhoff, Laura Cantrell.

Mary and the band have performed multiple weekly concerts at the Jones Beach Boardwalk Bandshell for many summer seasons. Mary was featured in Newsday’s special section celebrating Jones Beach’s 75th Anniversary.

Selections from her debut CD “You Don’t Have to Knock” and her second CD “How Lucky” (Lammar Records) have been played on many overseas stations, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Scotland and Ireland. Domestically, selections have been played on WFUV 90.7 (NYC), WUSB 90.1 (Long Island), WFDU 89.1 (New Jersey) and others.

Famed Nashville writer/historian Robert K. Oermann, who was one of the judges on USA Network's first "Nashville Star" competition, gave Mary an Honorable Mention for her song "Sweepin' the Floor" (from Mary’s debut CD “You Don’t Have To Knock”) in his review column in Music Row Magazine, Nashville's premiere music business publication. Of “Ontario” (from Mary’s second CD “How Lucky”) Oermann said “the track has a cool, almost Celtic feel that combines marshall drumming, gentle acoustic guitars, steel and minor key electric touches...she sounds quite enjoyable.”

Mary’s second CD, “How Lucky” features the single “Ontario”, which was released in to 800 European radio stations. “Ontario” was voted a favorite by many independent European radio DJs – and remained on their charts for 8 weeks.

Westbury Music Fair (NYCB Theatre) booked Mary as an opening act for their Long Island Country Music Festival, with headliners Delbert McClinton & The Marshall Tucker Band, and again for The Charlie Daniels Band. The band has appeared at numerous fairs, festivals, country association dances as well as promotional events for country radio stations. Mary was opening act for country superstar Bryan White at the Pat Garrett Amphitheater in Strausstown, Pennsylvania. She was honored to be part of Huntington’s Inter-Media Art Center (IMAC) “Long Island’s Own” series, featuring “artists deserving greater recognition.”

Newsday also included Mary in a cover story on the best area summer concerts. Newsday’s Nightbeat section listed her as a "best bet" for live performance, and gave her CD of original material a triple A rating. And she was the featured photo in Newsday’s “Bands on the Run” section, which lists the performances of “Long Island’s hottest acts.”

Mary was interviewed on News 12 Long Island as “putting Long Island on the map when it comes to the sweet sounds of country music.” Good Times calls her show “a real treat” and “a must-see for fans of contemporary country music."

For booking/concert info, call Jim Marchese at 631-435-4360.

Instrumentation

Mary Lamont - Lead Vocals
Jim Marchese - Lead/rhythm guitars & harmonica
Cosmo - Bass/Vocals
Greg - Drums
Skip - Guitar, Pedal Steel Guitar

Discography

You Don't Have to Knock, debut CD, Lammar Records
How Lucky, 2nd CD, Lammar Records

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  • Mary Lamont China tour

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  • Jim/Mary at IMAC

Press

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    "The Queen of Long Island country" - Newsday Can New Yorkers play country music? Yes, especially...

Setlist

We can cater sets to your time frame. Besides original tunes, we also perform the following cover tunes:

Jambalaya - Hank Williams Sr.
Settin’ the Woods on Fire - Hank Williams Sr.
Guitars Cadillacs - Dwight Yoakam
Walkin' After Midnight - Patsy Cline
Cryin' Shame Mavericks
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ - Nancy Sinatra
Queen of Hearts- Juice Newton
I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Margueritaville - Jimmy Buffet
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail - Buck Owens
Nothing Can Stop Me - Buddy Miller
Tennessee Waltz - Patti Page
Falling, Falling, Falling - Mandy Barnett
Keep Your Distance - Buddy Miller
Suspicious Minds - Elvis
End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
Tempted - Marty Stuart
Dance the Night Away - Mavericks
Tonight the Heartache’s on Me - Dixie Chicks
Southern Streamline - John Fogerty
Blue Rose Is - Pam Tillis
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Someday Soon - Suzy Bogguss/Judy Collins
Go Away, Wait a Minute - Lorrie Morgan
Burn Me Down - Marty Stuart
Old Weakness - Delbert McClinton
Sending Me Angels - Delbert McClinton
455 Rocket - Kathy Mattea
Baby Likes to Rock It - Tractors
Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank Williams Sr.
Fast As You - Dwight Yoakam
Believe Me Baby I Lied - Trisha Yearwood
Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter
No One Needs to Know - Shania Twain
Poor Girl Blues - Chet Atkins/Mark Knoepfler
That's All Right With Me - Mandy Barnett
That's All Right Mama - Elvis
Bring Me Down - Mavericks
I Can’t Help Falling In Love - Elvis
Poor Pitiful Me -Terri Clark/Linda Ronstadt
Glendale Train - New Riders of the Purple Sage
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk
When You Say Nothing at All - Keith Whitley/Allison Krauss
Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain - Willie Nelson
Next Big Thing - Vince Gill
Nothing But the Wheel - Patty Loveless/PeterWolf & Mick Jagger
World of Blue - Dwight Yoakam
Rocky Top - Traditional
Please Let Me Down Easy - Chris Isaak
Adios Mexico - Texas Tornadoes
Born to Run - Emmylou Harris
Ooh Las Vegas - Emmylou Harris
Wild At Heart - Lari White
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight - Bob Dylan
If I Should Fall Behind - Bruce Springsteen
Amazed - Lonestar
Who's Cheatin' Who - Alan Jackson
Buzzard - Dan Hicks
Bye Bye Love - Everly Bros.
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynard Skynard
If You Got the Money - Lefty Frizzell/Willie Nelson
Hey, Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams Sr.
Baby Don’t Go - Sonny & Cher

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