Biography

Marc Douglas Berardo is a rising star on the national singer songwriter scene. In 2006 alone, he was recognized with several major song awards including The Telluride Troubadour Contest (CO), Rocky Mountain Folks Festival (CO), Suwannee Springfest Song Contest (FL), and the Wildflower Arts Festival (TX) and The Just Plain Folks Award (CA). Berardo has shared the stage with some of the best in acoustic music including The Buffalo Springfield, Guy Clark, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Peter Rowan (Old and in the Way) and Steve Forbert. On stage on average of 150 nights a year, Berardo can be seen in rooms like the Town Crier Cafe in New York or the Trade Winds Cantina in Florida and even St Anne's Chapel in Vatican City, Italy. He does this simply and well with what Rambles Cultural Magazine calls: careful images and great tunes. In April of 2006, Munga Music issued Marcs fourth CD entitled Harbor. The CD reached #25 on the Folk DJ Radio Chart in the US and Europe, tied with a trio of legendary names: Jackson Browne, Pete Seeger and Rodney Crowell. Marc has been a recent guest on many radio programs including Profiles in Folk on WSHU, CT, Sessions at Centenary on WNTI, NJ, and the legendary Folk Music with Gene Shay on WXPN, Philadelphia, PA.