Quotes...from far and wide

"We were lucky to hear Mel Green, visiting from Boston, USA.
Singing traditional and contemporary songs with clever, melodic arrangements and delicate guitar accompaniments ... we would love to hear him back again."
The Cornstalk Review : Mel's Loaded Dog Folk Club appearance, Sydney, Australia, 28 February, 2004

"The guy on the end who looks like a cross between Ben Franklin and Bill Clinton" Christine Lavin at Summerfest '05 before urging us "Sensitive New Age Guys" on stage

"Thanks for singing for us and making us welcome. You have a great voice." Don Everly, of the Everly Brothers in 1969 after seeing Mel & Mel at The Johannesburg Troubadour Coffeehouse, touring with his band while on the Everly Brothers South African Tour

"Mel’s voice is like fine, painted, beautiful china. Far-reaching life experiences in different parts of the world, have illuminated his lyricism, as he sprinkles his words and narrative with humor and humility." Angela Masciale, King Hooper Cafe, Marblehead, Massachusetts

"There were singers and guitarists that would take my breath away. Mel Green sang like a bird and played some of the cleanest guitar...."  
Colin Shamley, South African Folksinger / Top 40 Songwriter

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My FIRST SOLO CD is now available!

GIG CALENDAR 2010

I have been asked to FEATURE at

LOMA OPEN MIC
at the Lincoln Library on September 13th

TCAN OPEN MIC
Natick Center for the Arts on October 25th

SUMMER is with us! Get out tonight...Enjoy ... Support live local music!

Mel's songs are evocative, and draw one in to his spare, interesting stories, gleaned from his life, his times and his personal, yet common-to-us-all, experiences. They are filled with references that most of us can identify with... everyday life, advancing age, the realization of being, early and recent experiences, love: now and then, family, and dreams.

Mel Green has re-emerged on the local Boston acoustic music scene as a songwriter, playing and singing in a relatively new format... with keyboard and bass accompaniment, played his friends Paul Lee and Eric Luskin, who are both formidable musicians and songsmiths in their own right.

Performing with Keyboards and bass guitar has broadened Mel's musical palette, giving his songs varied backdrops which better serve the songs and their subject matter.

He has been filling notebooks, and scribbling on scraps of paper since his late teens, and he began singing his own songs since arriving in the Boston area in 1972. After a long hiatus since 1975, he began performing again in 2000, continuing to the present day.

He also performs occasionally with his Folk-Rock-Americana-Adult-Alternative group, The Maple Street Project, a songwriting collaborative... from which many of his songs come, whether co-written or entirely his own.

Mel emigrated to the US from South Africa in 1970. He set his guitar aside to raise a family, all the while writing his own healing songs about love, family, the environment and personal growth.

in South Africa after his famous group, Mel, Mel & Julian broke up in 1967, Mel became a solo artist, and built up a reputation as one of the finest around, establishing himself in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban, where he performed regularly and recorded for Columbia.

Mel, or little Mel as he was then known, was a founding member of that successful folk/comedy trio during the 60s Apartheid years, hidden from view of the world due to the cultural embargo of that time. The group recorded three seminal albums for Columbia, and toured South Africa during the late 60s, establishing a formidable reputation as world quality folk artistes.

1996 - 2010 Mel Green - Solo Singer/Songwriter
July 2009 Savoury Lane Feature, West Acton, Massachusetts
May 2009 Feature at the PCA, Westford, Massachusetts
March 2008 Feature at the Emerson Umbrella Concord, Mass.
October 2007 Feature at TCAN, Natick, Massachusetts
April 2007 Feature at the King Hooper Cafe, Marblehead, MA
Feb 2007 Special Guest Main Streets Cafe & Market, Concord, MA
Oct 2006 Feature The Village Gate Folk Stage, Brookline, NH
Sept 2006 Feature Java Jo's, Jamaica Plain, MA
April 2006 Feature at the PCA, Westford, Massachusetts
May 2006 Co-Feature South Shore Folk Music Club, Kingston, MA
Nov 2005 House Concert Feature with RiverSong, Arlington, MA
June 2005 Feature at Riverfest, Pawtucket, RI
May 2005 Feature at Cafe Ziba, Acton, MA
Jan 2005 Opener for Jim Scott, One World Coffeehouse, Essex, MA
Feb 2004 Guest Floor Singer at The Loaded Dog Folk Club, Sydney, Australia
Spring 2001 Cast Member Cambridge Spring Revels
1988 to present. The Maple Street Project. Regular Gigs in CT, MA
1996 Feature with Maple Street Project at Club Passim, Cambridge, MA


Backup singer for Kate Campbell at South Shore Music Club '06

2005 Guest Backup Singer for Kate Campbell
Jan 2005 Homegrown Coffeehouse, Needham, MA
May 2005 Beal House, South Shore Music Club, Pembroke, MA

Mel Green - Solo Performer –  Back When
73 Opener for Rosalie Sorrels at Club Passim, Cambridge Mass.
73 Opener for Sandy Bull at Club Passim, Cambridge Mass.
73 Feature: Sword in the Stone, Boston
73 Bar Singer, Poland Springs Hotel, Maine
71-72 Gerde's Folk City, Greenwich Village, NYC
71-72 The Gaslight, Greenwich Village, NYC
70 Hotel Cabaret Singer, Poconos, PA
5/70 Guest performer at Cecil Sharpe House, London, UK
1970 Emigrates to the USA

 Mel... Solo 1968

South Africa 1967 – 1970
Regular Feature: Troubadour Johannesburg, South Africa
Regular Feature: Minstrel Coffeehouse, Pretoria, South Africa
Headliner: Durban Folk Festival
Feature: Johannesburg Folk Festival
CBS South Africa / Columbia Recording Artist
His single "Mr. Nico" & "What is Love" (by David Marks) recorded with top 40 pop group, The Bats, makes him the first folk-rock recording artist in South Africa!
Tours the Transvaal with "What Is Love?" A literary dramatic stage review
Acts & sings in "What Is Love?" at Johannesburg's Langham Hotel supper club.
1968 Briefly joins The Dream Merchants, Billy Forrest & Billy Andrews, top-10 pop duo, South Africa's "Righteous Brothers". Signed to RCA Victor (South Africa)

 Mel, Mel & Julian '64

1964 - 1967 Mel, Mel & Julian
Residencies:
Edward Hotel Durban
Deal's Hotel, East London
Grand Hotel, Cape Town
Headlined concerts at University of Cape Town, Wits University, Johannesburg, Durban University, Rhodes University
Winner: Redro Battle of the Bands - Sponsored EP recorded
3 Albums recorded for CBS South Africa / Columbia Recording Artists
Performed for troops returning from Vietnam aboard aircraft carrier USS Wasp, in Cape Town harbor.

 Mel & Mel 1964

1963 - 1964  Mel & Mel
Feature: Johannesburg Folk Festival, with Louis Meyer
(Performing on the FIRST folk LP released in South Africa.
Mel, Mel & Louis had three cuts on the album recorded by
CBS South Africa, after which they were signed to CBS Records South Africa
Residencies:
The Troubadour, Johannesburg
Edward Hotel Durban
Deal's Hotel, East London
Grand Hotel, Cape Town
1969 Reunited for a sold-out show at the Minstrel, Pretoria... their last as a duo.

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