2008 Woodie Awards
Alumni return home for concert
By: David Veselenak
Issue date: 2/20/08 Section: News
Correction: The Murrow's Boys are a acoustic folk band, not a jazz band.
Freelance writing and teaching across Michigan does not stop three musicians known as the Murrow's Boys from recording and performing.
Ken Marten, a harmonica player for the Murrow's Boys, is a freelance writer in Hamtramck. His brother Greg Marten, guitarist, works as a distance learning coordinator in Lenawee and James Murphy, bass player, is an English teacher in Huron Township.
The three will come to Mount Pleasant to perform acoustic folk music at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Brass Cafe, 128 S. Main St.
The band has played acoustic folk music at several coffee shops and other venues around the Midwest.
Saturday night also will be a homecoming of sorts for Ken and Greg Marten, who are former Central Michigan University students.
"Mount Pleasant is appealing to us because we grew up there," Ken Marten said. "The Brass Café has a reputation for good music."
Ken Marten's acoustic folk band Murrow's Boys has been together since 2006. They alternate roles in each performance. Murphy and Greg rotate playing guitar and bass, while Ken plays the harmonica.
They have performed at several locations with their most recent show at AJ's Music Café in Ferndale.
Murphy said last Saturday's show was one of his favorite performances the group has done.
"It was probably one of the best crowds we've ever played (for)," he said.
The trio also will play from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Alma's The Book Shoppe, 316 N. State St. Both shows are open to the public.
Ken, a 1985 Mount Pleasant High School graduate, and Greg, a 1987 graduate, are looking forward to the return to their hometown.
"We were all over the place," Ken Marten said. "We played in Mount Pleasant and at CMU when we were in high school."
The brothers started in the 1980s as members of ConFessions, a post-punk band they founded in high school.
Lois Hartzler, a singer and volunteer who books acts at the Brass Cafe, said the restaurant is always willing to try new acts.
"We welcome them and hope it works out (for them)," she said.
Although the show is a return home for the Marten brothers, this will be Murphy's first visit to Mount Pleasant.
"I'm pretty easy going," he said. "I don't mind (coming to Mount Pleasant). I'm looking forward to going up there."
The band decided on the Brass Café because of its long-standing record of bringing great music to perform, Ken said.
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Freelance writing and teaching across Michigan does not stop three musicians known as the Murrow's Boys from recording and performing.
Ken Marten, a harmonica player for the Murrow's Boys, is a freelance writer in Hamtramck. His brother Greg Marten, guitarist, works as a distance learning coordinator in Lenawee and James Murphy, bass player, is an English teacher in Huron Township.
The three will come to Mount Pleasant to perform acoustic folk music at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Brass Cafe, 128 S. Main St.
The band has played acoustic folk music at several coffee shops and other venues around the Midwest.
Saturday night also will be a homecoming of sorts for Ken and Greg Marten, who are former Central Michigan University students.
"Mount Pleasant is appealing to us because we grew up there," Ken Marten said. "The Brass Café has a reputation for good music."
Ken Marten's acoustic folk band Murrow's Boys has been together since 2006. They alternate roles in each performance. Murphy and Greg rotate playing guitar and bass, while Ken plays the harmonica.
They have performed at several locations with their most recent show at AJ's Music Café in Ferndale.
Murphy said last Saturday's show was one of his favorite performances the group has done.
"It was probably one of the best crowds we've ever played (for)," he said.
The trio also will play from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Alma's The Book Shoppe, 316 N. State St. Both shows are open to the public.
Ken, a 1985 Mount Pleasant High School graduate, and Greg, a 1987 graduate, are looking forward to the return to their hometown.
"We were all over the place," Ken Marten said. "We played in Mount Pleasant and at CMU when we were in high school."
The brothers started in the 1980s as members of ConFessions, a post-punk band they founded in high school.
Lois Hartzler, a singer and volunteer who books acts at the Brass Cafe, said the restaurant is always willing to try new acts.
"We welcome them and hope it works out (for them)," she said.
Although the show is a return home for the Marten brothers, this will be Murphy's first visit to Mount Pleasant.
"I'm pretty easy going," he said. "I don't mind (coming to Mount Pleasant). I'm looking forward to going up there."
The band decided on the Brass Café because of its long-standing record of bringing great music to perform, Ken said.
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Ken Marten
posted 2/22/08 @ 12:31 PM EST
On behalf of Murrow's Boys, I thank the CM Life staff for making the correction to this story.
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