Artist Information Biography Singer-songwriter Davey O is a resilient artist with a career that has not been of the skyrocket variety.  It's been a slow steady climb, a ten-year journey of learning to scrape away anything that smacks of cliché and turn the raw experience of life into songs that cut straight through to a place of sunlight and tears. The struggle has paid off in a collection of songs that are justly earned--no hackneyed storylines, no insincere polish, just an unflinching poet's look at life. His style is pure Americana--a mix of back porch folk and beer hall rowdy. You've already met his characters:  the home-loving troubadour wondering if it's worth the long miles in an anonymous landscape; the brilliant but wild boy whose heart drowns in life's hurricane; the pretty girl at the bar whose sweet smile looks like a promise of redemption. Armed with a classic troubadour's Gibson, battered straw hat and a powerful-yet-sensitive voice, Davey O has entertained attentive, diverse audiences throughout the Northeast and Midwest both as a solo artist and in collaboration with his musical partner Jeffrey Mikulski.  He has been recognized with seven ASCAPlus Awards, five nominations for the Buffalo Music Award, and in 2004 he won the WNY People's Choice Award. Davey is currently touring in support of his fifth release, "The Long Way Home" and his previous release, "thirtyninedollarview," has received airplay throughout the Northeast and in Europe. Awards: 7 time ASCAPlus Award Recipient 5 time Buffalo Music Award Nominee 2004 Winner, WNY People's Choice Award, (Best Original Solo Acoustic) Major touring regions: Boston, MA, Buffalo, NY (and many of it's surrounding suburbs), Cincinnati & Cleveland, OH, Corning, NY, Edinboro & Erie, PA, Indianapolis, IN, LaGrange & Louisville, KY, Nashville, TN, New Haven, CT, New York, NY, Pittsburgh, PA, Portland, ME, Rochester, NY, Troy, NY    Notable venues and festivals: All Asia Cafe, Boston, MA Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, TN Bull Run Restaurant Concert Series, Shirley, MA Club Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA Niagara University, Lewiston, NY Perch Cafe, New York, NY, (featured performer, Catharsis Music Series) Tralf Music Hall, Buffalo, NY  University at Buffalo Center for the Arts, Amherst, NY Villa Maria College of Buffalo Recital Hall, Buffalo, NY ARTVOICE Streetfest, (2005) Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts, Buffalo, NY (2003, 2004, 2007) Music is Art Festival, (2006) Notable support slots: Kelly Joe Phelps, 2005, Mohawk Place, Buffalo, NY Will Hoge, 2006, Showplace Theatre, Buffalo, NY Gov't Mule, Medeski, Martin & Wood, 2005 ARTVOICE Streetfest, (acoustic stage) Tracy Grammer, 2007, Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PA Elizabeth Cook, 2007, Sportsmen's Tavern, Buffalo, NY The Roys, 2008, Club Infinity, Buffalo, NY Brennen Leigh, 2008, Sportsmen's Tavern, Buffalo, NY Kelley Hunt, 2008, Tralf Music Hall, Buffalo, NY Bob Martin, 2008, Bull Run Concert Series, Shirley, MA Eric Sardinas, 2009, Tralf Music Hall, Buffalo, NY Paul Thorn, 2009, Sportsmen's Tavern, Buffalo, NY. The Ginn Sisters, House Concert, Buffalo, NY, 2009, Poco, Labatt Blue Saturday Night Concerts, Gateway Park, Tonawanda, NY, 2009 Instrumentation Davey O. - Gibson J-45, vocals, harmonica Jeffrey Mikulski - Gibson ES-140, mandolin, slide guitar Discography All releases on h3o records. Reflect (2000) (available at CD Baby only) the bare sessions (2002) (available at CD Baby only) The Emotional Shelter (2003) thirtyninedollarview (4 song EP) (2005) The Long Way Home (2009) Within one week of it's April 2009 release, songs from Davey's new CD "The Long Way Home" have been added to the playlists of and are receiving airplay on WPKN (Bridgeport, CT), WPKM (Montauk, LI), WLKK, 107.7 The Lake (Buffalo, NY) and on the internationally syndicated program, "AmericanaOK", which broadcasts from Scotland to New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, the UK and to San Francisco, Nashville, North and South Carolina in the United States. "Transformation Road" from the thirtyninedollarview EP has been added to regular rotation on WLKK, 107.7 The Lake FM in Buffalo, NY, and on the online Americana/Country channel of Houston, TX station Outbound Music.  "Transformation Road" is also a featured track on The Lake Local Music CD Vol. 3 (2006), and "No Use" is featured on the 2006 Music Is Art Compilation (Good Charamel Records).  Tracks from "thirtyninedollarview" have also been added to the playlist of Scotland's Americana OK Program on Leith FM and it's sister station, New Zealand's Gold Rush 1440. Songs from other releases have received airplay on various stations regionally, including: WBNY, 91.3 FM, Buffalo, NY WGRF, 96.9 FM, Buffalo, NY WRUW, 91.1 FM, Cleveland, OH WCEB, 91.9 FM, Corning, NY WFSE, 89.9 FM, Edinboro, PA WXCS, 92.9 FM, Edinboro, PA WCVF, 89.9 FM, Fredonia, NY WTTS, 92.3 FM, Indianapolis, IN WFPK, 91.9 FM, Louisville, KY WRPI,  91.5 Troy, NY Links http://www.myspace.com/daveyomusic