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Dude, dad, future 100-yr old
Singer-songwriter - Mark Schirmacher
Ambient @lowkeytrampoline
Label @greenkeyrecords
Podcast @tibet_usa_podcast

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Variations Vol.3
A @greenkeyrecords label project 💚🗝️

This 17-track collab album features 20+ artist interpretations - "VARIATIONS" - on a single composition: @f_l_y_i_n_g_zulu & @mllemerle 's "it's a mess outside"

Each collaborating artist takes the original track's stems and chooses a few to build a new song around - this becomes their "variation" on the theme

The entire album is a monstrously diverse and unique listening experience, not driven by playlist ambitions, genre conformity, or artist censorship. Rather, the artists who contribute to the "Variations" series seek community, freedom of expression, and originality of sound & style

@greenkeyrecords 💚🗝️ is a small, artist-focused record label based in Minneapolis, USA, with branches in Norrköping, Sweden, and Toulouse, France

Distribution support by @downtownmusicpublishing

The Variations Vol.3 ALBUM is available NOW ✅

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1G5RCMVbuut8uL0HoFm3L3?si=_XRejdBpTJSiUvKCn03rOA&utm_source=copy-link

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/variations-vol-3/6808406279

also on Qobuz, Deezer, Pandora, YouTube Music, Amazon, and anywhere music is found 🎧

Contributing artists:

@deephi_music
@fr3nch_bourguignon
@f_l_y_i_n_g_zulu
@mllemerle
@seabeaglestudios
@grandch.xyz
@its_nicolegi
@1depth_
@lay_ko_beats
@markdlux
@remimz
@rigidmoods
@hebeho8
@jredou_ko
@_nel_gabriel
@findusmakesmusic
@grains_granitos
@lowkeytrampoline

#electronicmusic #dubstep #experimental #hiphop by @mark_schirmacher

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4 days ago

ALBUM RELEASE PARTY 🎉

Saturday, September 26
6-8pm
@showtimestudioandcoffee
Roseville MN

A Day Is Just A Day is my newest #folk project and we're wrapping up the 2026 WORLD TOUR (Minnesota version) this Saturday night at Showtime Studio & Coffee, in Roseville MN

FOOD 🍕

NEW MERCH 👚👕💿☕️

LIVE MUSIC 🎸🥁🎹🎤

6pm ---- Doors open

6:30 ---- @joeweckwerth_

7pm ---- @mark_schirmacher & Band

8:30 ---- Closing Time

9pm ----- Bedtime

I'm dropping a SURPRISE ALBUM too, available in physical form rn -

"Baskets in the Sun" CD 💿

See you in Minnesota tomorrow night ✅ taken in Showtime Studio and Coffee by @mark_schirmacher

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22 days ago

ALBUM RELEASE PARTY 🎉

I'll be at Showtime Studio & Coffee on SATURDAY NIGHT!!
September 26
6pm

This is the final show in our Summer & Fall TOUR of 2026 and I'm super excited to share music from my new folk/blues project, A Day Is Just A Day.

It's been out for a few months now and I couldn't be happier about playing these songs live - especially with the full band: @cscottmester on keys, Glenn Olson on bass, Kosh on Drums, Burt Caper on pedal steel, and @mmcgarthwaite on electric guitar.

Joining us will be folk artist @joeweckwerth_ and he'll be doing an opening set at 6:30. I got a chance to play with Joe a few months back at a singer-songwriter showcase in St Paul, and I'm super jazzed about hearing his thought-provoking, humor-laced music again ✅

No cover charge for this event, gang - It's a PARTY 🎉

Some food & drinks will be provided and there's some very cool new
MERCH & MUSIC to peep - hope you can make it!

Mark Schirmacher & Band
Special guest: @joeweckwerth_
Showtime Studio & Coffee
2700 Lexington Ave N, Roseville, MN 55113
6-8pm

#livemusic #mnmusic #folk #blues @showtimestudioandcoffee by @mark_schirmacher

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23 days ago

THANK YOU, HOLDINGFORD!

Had an amazing time in #holdingfordmn at @artinmotion.mn playing songs from the new album 💿

Holdingford is a FARM community in central Minnesota where my beloved Aunt & Uncle live 🐓🐖🐮

S/O's

🙌🏼 Cousin Paul for his most EPIC restoration of our Grandpa's 1953 Imternational pickup truck

🙌🏼 Uncle Ken for the yarn spinning at my show (most of it painfully true)

🙌🏼 @dickschirmacher for crashing my setlist with the qualified request to do "our signature song" (Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World) - with the maestro on piano, it was hard to resist

🙌🏼 The crew at @artinmotion.mn for the good food, gig support, and super GROOVY environment

Live music is still alive and well, have us back sometime, Holdingford 💚

#mnmusic #singersongwriter #folkmusic taken in Minnesota by @mark_schirmacher

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2 months ago

"A Day Is Just A Day"

Available to stream everywhere 🎧

Thx to the musicians & collaborators who helped make this album a reality 🙏🏼

The Album
@chrizzlybear1 @mmcgarthwaite Glenn @cscottmester Kosh @tangerinerecordings @godzhiller

The Artwork
@mdbts__mndfctry

Photography
@photo.sapphire

The Live Shows
Kosh Glenn @cscottmester @mmcgarthwaite Burt @showtimestudioandcoffee

The Book: "A Day Is Just A Day Listening Companion"
@garden.house.girl @libbywilsman

With these 10 songs, I'm trying to slow down time, examine the Questions, Conclusions, and Constants throughout my life as a parent and citizen of planet Earth.

Introspective, frolicking, melancholy, and easy-going, the vibe of this record feels natural and expressive - like a fresh breath after spending the last 6 years underwater.

These songs lean into the Blues & Folk traditions that shaped me as an early guitar player & songwriter.

CD and BOOK available on Bandcamp:
https://markschirmacher.bandcamp.com/album/a-day-is-just-a-day

CDs & BOOK also available at my shows - come out & say 'hi'

#folk #blues #singersongwriter #markschirmacher #mpls

p.s. Thx fam for the constant 💚 & subject matter ✍🏻 Lu Jo Ju Fro H&A by @mark_schirmacher

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4 months ago

Honored to be playing with @barkpointband in Eau Claire TONIGHT

9pm - June 12
📍Mousetrap Tavern
311 Barstow St, Eau Claire WISCONSIN

We open up for @squidcityslingers 🦑🪕

I play bass & harmonica with Bark Point., a nice departure from my usual role as singer-songwriter, and let me tell ya, feels great to be a player in this band.

If you live near the border, make a run - we'll see you there!

#folk #acoustic #barkpointband #squidcityslingers by @mark_schirmacher

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4 months ago

"Alex In Dreams" from the album "A DAY IS JUST A DAY (due out June 16)

Streaming now

Thx to all the musicians playing on this song:
@godzhiller on strings & vocals
@mmcgarthwaite on electric guitar
@chrizzlybear1 on electric bass & prod.
Kosh on drums
@cscottmester on keys
@nateclover_ on Mastering

Vid up on YouTube - subscribe for more ✅
https://youtu.be/aum-QPWzLQI?si=cQlMi1oe9d37YbxF

#singersongwriter #folk #indiefolk #dreams #americana by @mark_schirmacher

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5 months ago

Playing some live shows in the Minneapolis / St Paul area over the summer & fall ☀️

Hope to see ya sometime 🌸🌷🌺🌼 taken in Minnesota by @mark_schirmacher

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5 months ago

Pics from my recent trip to Ireland 🍀

An amazing country, green and lush, full of history, and the people - I can't wait to go back and see more of this magical island ✈️

My wife and I went to see the great Irish folk-rock band The Hothouse Flowers, and spent a week driving and hiking around the splendid natural & historical sites of Wexford, Trim, Glendalough, and The Boyne Valley 🇮🇪

Highlights: Neolithic site of Newgrange, discovering the music of Irish legend Rory Gallagher, drinking Guinness at Mary's Pub in Wexford, Trim Castle (1172 AD) in the city of Trim, and walking the lovely & expansive beach at Curracloe (where Saving Private Ryan was filmed), and standing outside the gates of Slane Castle where U2 recorded their ambient-rock masterpiece, Unforgettable Fire 🔥

So much 💚 and respect for the people and this place - until next time 🙏🏼🍀🇮🇪

#wexford #ireland #trimireland #hothouseflowers #newgrange taken in Wexford, Ireland by @mark_schirmacher

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6 months ago

"My Child" out now

The third single from my upcoming album
A Day Is Just A Day, My Child is a special song about seeing your kids move around in the world w/o you 💔

Tiziana Hiller - @godzhiller - added violins to this song and brought it into a deeper space, more melancholic than it already was 🎻

Available to stream and share on all the thingies

Full album due out in June 🎾🐝🐸🦝😎🍉⛱️

Released in collaboration with @greenkeyrecords 💚🗝️
A pan-genre label focused on electronic, ambient, and folk music 🎧

#folk #blues #singersongwriter taken in Minneapolis, Minnesota by @mark_schirmacher

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6 months ago

Had a great time this past weekend playing @showtimestudioandcoffee 🎸🥁🎤🎹

Thx to the band (Burt, Chriss, Kosh, Michael, Glenn) and Matt at Showtime for bringing your best 🙏🏼

and Thx to all the folks who came out 🎉

SET LIST

Satisfied
Prayin’ Man
Longest Night
Losing Things
Horndog Blues
Little Bird
Rainy AM Blues
Alex In Dreams
Bird in your Tree
Simple Life
A Day Is Just A Day
My Child

The band will be at Showtime again on September 26 ✅ taken in Showtime Studio and Coffee by @mark_schirmacher

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Playing a show next weekend 🎸

April 4, 1pm at Showtime Studio & Coffee in Roseville, MN

I'll be playing in the Main Room, rolling out some new songs from the upcoming album "A Day Is Just A Day" with the band 🥁🎹🎤

Kosh - Drums
@mmcgarthwaite - Electric guitar
Glenn Olson - Bass
Burt Caper - Pedal steel
@cscottmester - Keyboard

Swing by & say 'hi'

#folk
#folkrock
#singersongwriter
#musicmn by @mark_schirmacher

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