SHACKAMAXON is the music of Michael Andrew Gall - Guitar/Uke/Flute/Drums/Vocals
He may be accompanied by: James Cooper - Electric Bass & Vocals Phil D'Agostino - Upright & Electric Bass Pete Gaudioso - Drums/Vox Chris Lefevre - Electric Bass Christie Lenee - Electric & Acoustic Guitar Anam Owili-Eger - Keys/Melodica/Vox
Influences
Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, My Morning Jacket, James Brown, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Iron & Wine, Feist, Air, Vusi Mahasela, Sarah Vaughan, Thievery Corporation, Sting, Jason Mraz, Gomez, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Soulive, Ibrahim Ferrer, Oliver Mtukudzi, The Beatles, Elliott Smith, Ellis Paul, Ben Gibbard, Jamiroquai, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, The Decemberists, etc etc
"Shackamaxon" is a word in the Algonquin tongue meaning "Meeting Place of Great People". It was the Leni-Lenape tribe's name for the gathering-place of chiefs and elders that existed just north of present-day Center City Philadelphia before the coming of the English under Quaker leader William Penn. The name of the Village of Shackamaxon continued to remain in the local vernacular into the Twentieth Century, and one can still find vestiges of the presence of this settlement in the names of streets, islands, parks, and businesses in the areas known collectively today as Northern Liberties and Kensington. These were two of the Quakers' earliest settlements north of their city, and their budding metropolis soon overtook the tiny Lenape presence along the banks of the Delaware.
Every FIRST FRIDAY, Shackamaxon's own Michael Andrew Gall hosts a series of songwriter events at the best listening room on the Main Line, Milkboy Coffee!!! Past artists include: John Francis, Adrien Reju, Josh Britton (The Sweetheart Parade), Allison Polans (Papertrees), Bevin Caulfield (Quintero), Steph Hayes (The Good Problems, Stargazer Lily), Joshua Park, Nicole Reynolds, Kozee, Bill Butler, Scott Silipigni, EJ Simpson, David Janes, and many, many more!!
Clever was named a "Song of the Times" by NeilYoung.com in 2008!
MeAgainstMyself would love nothing more then to see you at The Ground
House in Pitman,NJ this coming Friday. If you have nothing else going
on come join us and bring all your friends. The more you bring the more
prizes to be won!
Hey Guys, Me Against Myself is playing at The Ground House in Pitman,NJ
next Friday and we would love to see you there if you so happen to have
that night free. If you can come and bring friends we got a new album
out and some hand outs if you can make it. Hope all is well in your
life man and keep playing-MAM
hey mike! what's good? calling in a musician favor here!
anyone on my friends, please read this and help me out. it's just a minute out your day once a day this week, and, should i move on to the next two rounds, the same process in a couple weeks.
please, please, do me a huge favor and follow this link to vote for me to get to play at austin city limits. all you have to do is register (only takes a minute) and vote once a day until Friday August 28th. I need to be in the top 100 vote-wise to move to the next round. Right now i'm tied with a bunch of other bands at #90, but i want to keep moving up, so i need some help. tell anyone you know to vote! if you have a facebook, please tell people about this on there. i'm a small-time guy trying to make it big, here. help out the underdog. if you haven't heard my music, i have some new tunes on my page and one on the link below thank you so much
and please repost this for your own friends! thanks boog
our new album, "best excuses", has been uploaded on www.yearlongday.com. thank you for patiently waiting to hear it, and stay tuned for the official cd release!
