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Island of My Own

Red Tailed Hawk

Crystal Glass

Figure Skater

Snow Owl

Wilting Winter

O Vittoria

Basket of Love

Waiting On Summer

Never Hold You Again

Golden Days

Celestial Lullabye

Composer, performer and producer whose music lies somewhere in the realms of Native American, World and New Age genres.  Mark's music is peaceful, haunting and healing yet expresses a continuity in the synchronicity of the spiritual and natural worlds and his orchestrations seem to transcend time and space.  Enjoy a soundscape of meditative and melodic instrumental tunes as flutes, guitars, strings, pianos and more paint tapestries of relaxation that color your senses and fill your imagination with scenes of nature on a journey through space and time that is sure to soothe the soul and renew the spirit of young and old alike. The peaceful songs on this album symbolize the cycles of life on many levels touching on philosophical concepts of creation and re-creation represented through dichotomous themes such as birth/death, morning/night and spring/winter. The resonating primary theme focuses on rebirth with the idea that the only constant is change and as each cycle ends there are always new beginnings...
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     Mark McGourley composes relaxing tunes inspired by nature and the haunting yet peaceful sounds of the Native American flute which is known to have healing powers.  He skillfully combines these melodies with orchestrations to take the listener on a meditative journey which transcends time and space...
     Mark is a seasoned performer and multi-instrumentalist with over 25 years of professional experience. He started his career performing bass guitar, keyboards and lead vocals in a variety of cover bands throughout the Tampa Bay area. For the past 15 years he has focused more on his acoustic guitar and vocal abilities and has become a solid solo act performing at the top venues along the Suncoast beaches. 
     More than 20 years ago Mark's mother gifted him his first Native American flute and he has been playing and composing on it ever since. He has written several hundred tunes largely inspired by nature and many of these peaceful songs are based on melodies created with the NA flute. His original performances feature selections which are sure to soothe the soul from his debut CD titled "Universe Dance" as well as tunes from his upcoming second album focusing on NA flute, guitar and percussion.
     In 2009, Mark  performed as guitarist with world premier NA flutist R. Carlos Nakai and multi-Grammy nominee world percussionist Will Clipman. Over the past four years Mark has performed at several NA flute festivals and events in the U.S. and his performance of “Kokopelli's Dance” is featured on the “Live from the 2010 Native Rhythms Festival” compilation CD along with many of the world’s top NA flute artists. 
     Mark has journeyed by motorhome several times all across the U.S. and has hiked very extensively throughout more than 30 of our country's most beautiful National Parks. He has accumulated video and photo imagery of all these majestic places and this year he completed production on a multi-media live show of his music synchronized with a video projection backdrop of his moving visual images of nature.
     He was selected and performed at the  2012 INAFA Convention where he premiered his "Universe Dance Visual Concert" and officially released his debut CD. He also launched his first tour of the midwest to promote this powerful live show, which continued along the eastern seaboard during the summer of 2013 and included a performance at the inaugural RNAFF gathering in the Great Smoky Mountains.
     Most recently, two songs from Mark's debut CD were nominated as finalists for the 2013 Indian Summer Music Awards (ISMA) in the Native Spirit category, along with Mark Holland and winner Jonny Lipford.  Later that year he performed guitar onstage with Grammy award winner Robert Mirabal. 
     The studio version of his music synchronized to his nature video is currently available on DVD and his second CD "Celestial Spirits" is in progress.  Mark holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and a M.A. in Education from the University of South Florida.  For more information and audio & video demos please visit Mark’s website at  www.markmcgourley.com. 

Mark McGourley

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