SHC Music Tribe Presents Marc Douglas Berardo and Walt Wilkins
SHC Music Tribe Presents
Marc Douglas Berardo and Walt Wilkins
Wednesday, September 23 @ 8 PM
Doors 7:30 PM
Advanced Tickets: $20 (plus fees), Door: $25
Email shcmusictribe@gmail.com for questions.
ABOUT: Walt Wilkins
Website: waltwilkins.com
Trains I Missed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDYWNi1oTBw
Walt Wilkins is best described as the Songwriter’s Songwriter” – Americana Review.
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 Wilkins, at 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, Eden’s 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.•
ABOUT: Marc Douglas Berardo
Website: marcdouglas.com
Dreamland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc_AeUcSzhk
“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.Marc Douglas Berardo lives on the southwestern coastline of Rhode Island on a river that runs into the ocean.
Marc Douglas Berardo is a thought-provoking songwriter as well as a fancy wooden guitar player who uses humor and deft storytelling to rally an audience and lead them into a deep and sometimes spiritual experience. After over 35 years of performing in every conceivable situation and winning awards and recognition for his songs in a boatload of national festivals like Rocky Mountain Folks, Telluride, Kerrville New Folk, Suwanee, and Wildflower, as well as being voted “best interview and live performance feature” on Sirius/ XM Satellite Radio show The Village, Berardo has established himself as the real deal. A “lifer” that No Depression Magazine called: “sincere, fluid, charming, and above all gripping.”
A few of the many highlights of 2025 include Berardo as the subject of a feature story by Jan Tomay in the legendary Ink Magazine, and a headline appearance at the 40th Tucson Folk Festival in Arizona, along with the fiery dobro player Abbie Gardner. Berardo’s highly regarded 2024 release “The Beauty of This Now” was recorded in Austin, Texas, and produced by Texas legends Ron Flynt and Walt Wilkins.
John Apice of Americana Highways wrote: “There’s a seriousness to Marc’s compositions that’s not apparent in the slew of artists who seem to have a lot of nothing to say in an album’s worth of music…Marc is cut from the same cloth as James Taylor, early Elton John, or maybe Mark Twain…”