Album Notes

MARK PAFFRATH / A Brief Biography


Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Paffrath has been a performing musician since 1976. That year ended a six month tour of folk clubs and festivals in Germany with friend and fellow Wisconsin native Don Owens with whom he did two recordings.

Through the mid 1980s he performed for over eight years with the duo Paffrath & Dykhuis with whom he released two recordings and garnered a WAMI (Wisconson Area Music Industry) award for Best Folk Artists. He also played with the locally popular R & B band Marvin & The Dogs which released one recording. Through the mid and late 1980s he performed with Julie Schroeder in the duo Moulin Rouge with one recording to their credit. For a short stint in the early 1990s he performed as a duo with Milwaukee's Willy Porter. He currently sometimes performs with Richard Holly. They have released a CD called "Rainbeat" which won Best CD in a Racine (WI) Journal Times readers poll and they were nominated for a WAMI last year as Best Folk Artists.

Mark, who was also picked as Best String Player several years running in the Racine (WI) Journal Times poll, also performs regularly as a solo in the region and has recently released a CD called "Retrofix - Life's Journey With Musical Friends" featuring music - mostly original and some borrowed - from many of the different groups he has performed and sung with over his career, plus one new song, "Forest Green Beret" produced by Joe Puerta of the group Ambrosia.

Mark focuses his work full time in different areas of the music business and has his own music booking, management and publishing operation, New Leaf Music Enterprise.

Mark also collects vintage watches, loves James Bond movies, TV Land, Karmann Ghias, Studebakers, old Chryslers, time off and Dean Martin. He and his wife love Summer and eachother and have two cats and a dog and live in Wisconsin.

New Leaf Music Enterprise
Ph 262.632.3277
Fax 262.635.2357
E Mail paffrath@execpc.com
Website http://www.execpc.com/~paffrath