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Darren has just returned (Feb 08) from a 1 month, mammoth coast to coast USA tour with The Black Mountain Male Chorus, starting in Chicago, making its way down the eastern shoreline (near New York) and finishing up in Los Angeles, California (map attached). He undertook 20 concerts throughout the month tour, covering over 18 States and around 6500 miles…by bus! They have now completed over 200 concerts in the USA in 10 years, a feat which will hopefully be featured in the Guinness Book Of Records this year. Darren has completed over 100 concerts (65 plus in the US) and visited around 40 of the 50 American States with them since 2000! They performed in large arenas for audiences of up to 1700 in a show featuring choral singing, pop, Celtic, Musical Theatre, traditional Welsh songs and which featured special guest, Mr Peter Karrie, star of the The West End/Broadway (especially, “Phantom Of The Opera”),who completed the month tour with them. Highlights of the tour included:
• completing the 200th concert at High Point, North Carolina to a packed 1200 audience,
• visiting The White House,
• visiting the Oscars
• meeting up for lunch with Welsh film star/actor Mathew Rhys in LA (star of smash US hit TV show, "Brothers & Sisters" and forthcoming Dylan Thomas film with Keira Knightly/Sienna Miller, "The Edge Of Love")
• and having a guided tour of LA with old friend Ilt Jones, (originally from Treforest!) who is a Hollywood location director (worked on "Hellboy", “Transformers” movie and forthcoming, "Hancock" and “Transformers 2”)
Darren recently (Oct. 08) met US singer/songwriter Michael Bolton (who has sold 53 million records worldwide) at the Cardiff Arena. Darren spoke to Michael in his dressing room about songwriting, their mutual respect for singer Tom Jones, Michael's old back catalogue of heavy rock songs and their love of playing golf at Newport's Celtic Manor Resort.
Darren was the 2004 UK Songwriting Champion with his song "Reality" and was a finalist (Aug 08) in the 2008 UK Songwriting Contest with his song "Slippin' Away"; beating over 6000 entries from around the world. Darren has a new release on iTUNES soon entitled..."Matters Of The Heart"
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- Live in Wales. Done numerous US tours singing all over the country
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new album..."Matters Of The Heart" now available on Napster
http://home.napster.com/ns/music/album.html?album_id=13413480
Posted on November 6, 2009 at 1:09pm —
coming soon...Darren Parry (in concert) - trailer video
Posted on September 29, 2009 at 4:24pm —
new bebo profile - www.bebo.com/darrenparrymusic
www.bebo.com/darrenparrymusic
Posted on September 22, 2009 at 11:18am —
"Lovin' You" - 'commended entry' position in the 2009 UK Songwriting Contest
Darren has had a great run in this contest:
winner 2004 ("Reality"), semi-finalist 2005 ("Everything But You"), semi-finalist 2006 ("Stay"), semi-finalist 2007 ("Lost") and finalist 2008 ("Slippin' Away")
The contest is judged by among others; directors and senior executives of The BRIT Trust, The Guild of International… Continue
Posted on September 10, 2009 at 7:40pm —
new album now available on Rhapsody.com
***ONLY AVAILABLE TO US RESIDENTS***
Click on links below to listen/buy:
http://www.rhapsody.com/darren-parry/matters-of-the-heart
http://mp3.rhapsody.com/darren-parry/matters-of-the-heart/slippin-away
Posted on August 9, 2009 at 10:26am —
Comment Wall (14 comments)
- At 6:32am on September 8, 2009,
Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise said… - I've put 'slippin' away' on to my playlist; you can see and hear it on http://bynbrynman.ning.com and/or http://americymru.ning.com/profile/BernardBynorBunWalters
- At 4:54pm on September 6, 2009,
Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise said…
- It's Bun spelt a funny way; I went for a meal in Hal Als with friends from Cardiff, they told me they were coming to Brittany for their holidays, I asked them if there was room for me in their car and there was; that was in 1979. One of my best friends was from Troedyrhiw, Wyn Richards, played bowls for England!
- At 10:17am on September 6, 2009,
Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise said…
- It's done, it's now on my playlist, and now I see,because earlier I didn't go beyond the Comment Wall, that you have it for sale here.
- At 9:57am on September 6, 2009,
Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise said…
- I looked you up on You Tube, saw that you have a new single out, so I've just bought the album off iTunes; wheit's finished downloading I'll add it to my site playlist.
- At 9:42am on September 6, 2009,
Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise said…
- I consider myself a town boy, but from the age of five I lived in Penydarren. My father was from Glebeland St., my mother from Trevethick St., I spent the first four years of my life on the Gellideg Est., Swansea Rd. and my first schools were Georgetown and Queens Rd. Infants.
- At 7:28am on September 6, 2009,
Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise said…
- Hi, I'm an old friend of Derek's and I was just looking up his other friends from this site and I noticed that we come from the same town.
- At 8:02pm on May 5, 2009,
marie wright said… - well ok, that would be the word listening not listing...
- At 8:00pm on May 5, 2009,
marie wright said…
- Hey Darren,
Thanks for the invite to be friends and I thoroughly enjoy listing to your music. Tis good to follow your heart.
Marie
- At 8:36pm on April 3, 2009,
Claudio Vincent Williams said… - Dyolch Darren!, I checked out again and it worked, I llked your music, have to listen again more times to relish. Hwyl!
- At 10:20pm on December 11, 2008,
gaabi said… - Hi, Darren and welcome! Hope you like the site and thanks very much for posting your work for us to hear!
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