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Matt DeBlass

Wild Hog in the Woods Coffeehouse webcast concert: https://wildhoginthewoods.org/video/index.html

media release: The Wild Hog in the Woods Coffeehouse presents Matt DeBlass in an online concert. 

Matt DeBlass started out his musical life playing drums in rock and punk bands, until a friend introduced him to the bodhran, the frame drum used in Irish traditional music. With the bodhran acting as a "gateway drum" to the world of folk music, Matt eventually learned to play several other instruments, including mandolin, guitar and Celtic harp. He built a repertoire of traditional songs and has a particular love of tragic romance ballads, such as the ones collected in his 2018 album "Dead Lovers." 

Matt came to Madison in 2014, playing mandolin with a band, and ended up sticking around for seven years before moving back to the East Coast to be closer to family. He currently lives on the banks of the Delaware River, which sometimes makes him wonder why the Mississippi and Ohio rivers got all the good songs. 

Matt recently returned to college full time, because he thought being a broke college student would be twice as fun now that he's twice as old as the first time he tried it. In between classes, journalism work and the occasional café gig, he's planning his next album to be a collection of songs by Robert Burns.

More info at  https://www.mattdeblass.com

Free concert with donations accepted.