DAVID MALLETT PERFORMS AT ASHLAND UNITARIAN CENTER

CONTACT:  Ariella St. Clair  541-535-3562

August 14, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DAVID MALLETT PERFORMS AT ASHLAND UNITARIAN CENTER SEPTEMBER 12

     Ashland -- St. Clair Productions presents songwriter David Mallett
on September 12, 8 p.m. at the Unitarian Center, 4th and C Streets,
Ashland.  Mallett's songs have been recorded by over 150 artists.  His
Garden Song ("Inch by inch, row by row") has become an American
classic.  Tickets are $15 in advance, $17 at the door and $8 for kids
5-17 and SOU students with id.  Tickets are available through
TicketsWest on the web at www.ticketswest.com or by phone at
1-800-992-TIXX , at the Music Coop in the A Street Marketplace, Ashland
or by calling 541-535-3562.  For more information, check the web at
www.stclairevents.com.

     "David Mallett is one of the best songwriters whose name you
probably don't know.  He's also the owner of a rich baritone voice with
which he could sing the yellow pages and give them depth and meaning.
Fortunately, when he appears in our area [September 12], he'll be
singing his own lyrically intelligent , melodically inventive
compositions." Jim Newson in Port Folio Weekly

     Mallett has penned over 300 songs, of which many have been recorded
by others, including: Red Red Rose by Emmylou Harris; Garden Song by
John Denver, Pete Seeger, the Muppets, Peter, Paul and Mary, and
hundreds of others; Summer of My Dreams by Kathy Mattea; Ballad of the
St. Ann's Reel by John Denver, Makem & Clancy and the Irish Rovers;
Daddy's Oldsmobile by Hal Ketchum; and Never Got off the Ground by
Alison Krauss.  In addition, the Genesis Society, an international
animal rights organization, awarded Mallett the Classic Song Award for
his song You Say That the Battle is Over.

     Mallett is about to release The Artist in Me, his 12th recording.
(The CD will be available at the concert.)  Mallett has recorded for the
Neworld, Flying Fish, Vanguard and Flying Fish/Rounder labels.  His
first three recording were produced by Noel Stookey (of Peter, Paul and
Mary) in the 70s.  His last recording was Ambition in 1999.

     R. Warr reviewing Ambition in Sing Out said: "Mallett is one of
those songwriters that always has something worthwhile to say, and
always says it in a poetic way.  He comes up with marvelous line after
marvelous line.  Unlike many songwriters, his personal songs stretch to
a universality...and though he has practiced his trade for about 30
years, Mallett's songs and performance remains fresh and compelling."

     According to Steve Lacrosse in Popular Folk Music Today, "Dave
Mallett may be the only artist working today who's portraits and
stories, derived from the American heartland, can come close to being
compared to the works of Stephen Foster."

     Since the 70s, Mallett has performed in town halls and folk clubs
across American and Europe, in addition to major venues such as Barns of
Wolf Trap, Newport Folk Festival and "Prairie Home Companion."

     Having grown up in a small town in Maine, and now living in Sebac,
Maine, Mallett was named, along with Marshall Dodge, Andrew Wyeth, E.B.
White, Stephen King and Edna St. Vincent Millay, as one of the most
memorable "Mainers" of the twentieth century in The Bangor Daily News'
millennium edition.
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