Michael Marra is a Dundee-born (1952) musician.
Although deriving all his musical influences from the rock and roll canon that includes Tom Waits, Randy Newman and Bob Dylan, Marra's subject matter remains eccentrically Scottish with a Dundee focus in particular.
His most recent major project was the opera Nan Garland. In September 2007, he released a CD titled Quintet featuring five songs about five musicians - Peerie Willie Johnson, Peter McGlo...
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Michael Marra is a Dundee-born (1952) musician.
Although deriving all his musical influences from the rock and roll canon that includes Tom Waits, Randy Newman and Bob Dylan, Marra's subject matter remains eccentrically Scottish with a Dundee focus in particular.
His most recent major project was the opera Nan Garland. In September 2007, he released a CD titled Quintet featuring five songs about five musicians - Peerie Willie Johnson, Peter McGlone, Thomas Fraser, Martin Carthy and Dr. John.
In November 2007, Marra appeared in a new production of The Demon Barber at Perth Theatre in Scotland where he performed all his music live on stage.
In April 2006, having his fingerprints routinely taken by Customs in Washington D.C. – where he was performing as part of the Tartan Week – Marra was inspired to write a protest song about Shirley McKie. (Former police officer Ms McKie had been wrongly accused of leaving her thumbprint at a murder scene in 1997. When she denied the print was hers,...
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