Currently booking solo performances (acoustic guitar, vocals, slide guitar and harmonica) promoting his new CD Mike Breen And The Big Dream "All Night Long" and band performances for concerts, corporate events, weddings, receptions, cocktail and holiday parties, grand openings with a repertoire ranging from 5 CDs of original material as well as lots of covers.
Mike released 2 Cds in the nineties to critical acclaim (favorable reviews in "Dirty Linen," "Sing Out" and several other national publications) and started to have other artists record his songs which eventually led to a passion for recording. Also, during this period of time Mike got his first b bender telecaster which would eventually lead him to write and record a ground breaking CD called "Mescal Mary and Other B Bender Guitar Instrumentals" and received notable reviews in many national publications including "20th Century Guitar." Since then, Mike has two more CDs including "Apartment Living" and "All Night Long" on his own label Basilbone Records.
Currently, you can find Mike contributing to other projects including "Spirit Cave" with his son, Ryan, Mike Bell, Lawrence Hearn and Dave Marquez as well as a brand new band with Doug Haywood and Mickey McGee. Mike also continues to record and produce his own and other artists' music most recently working on Jessi Colter's "Out of the Ashes" (for which he was favorably reviewed in "Mix" magazine as an engineer) as well as composing and recording music for television and movies including the made for TV special "Walker, Texas Ranger - Trial by Fire," Discovery Channel's "Sucking Amps," A&E Biographies on Bruce Willis, Halle Berry, Will Smith, Cuba Gooding Jr, Kevin Costner, Kevin Kline, Leonardo Di Caprio, Owen Wilson and the soon to be airing on Public Television "Lassie's Pet Vet," NBC's "America's Got Talent," TLC's "Property Ladder," "My First Home," The Discovery Channel's "Clinically Wild - Alaska," "ABC's Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann," "American Idol Rewind," "Wedding Central," "Farmer Wants A Wife" on the CW network, "Can You Duet" on CMT, "Clean House" on the Style Network, "Losing It, Tales From Fat Camp" and "The Osbornes Reloaded."
Instrumentation
Mike Breen - Solo Artist - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, slide, B and G Bender Telecaster
Russ Skaggs - Vocals, Bass
Ken Skaggs - Pedal Steel Guitar and Mandolin
Mickey McGee - Drums, Cajon
Mike Cirillo - Fiddle
Billy Parker - mandolin
Discography
1993 "Just Like Me" (cassette release) Basilbone Records
1996 "No Excuses" Basilbone Records
2000 "Past Lives" Basilbone Records
2004 "Mescal Mary and Other Songs for the B Bender Guitar"
Basilbone Records
2008 "Apartment Living" Basilbone Records
2010 "Big Big Dream" Single on Basilbone Records
2012 "Mike Breen And The Big Dream - All Night Long" Basilbone Records
