Mark Mandeville & Old Constitution is a collaborative musical project including Mark Mandeville (Just for Sundae, The Overtones, The Brands, "the accident that led me to the world"), Raianne Richards ("the accident that led me to the world"), Dylan Clark (Grey Milk, The Points North) and Zach Peckham (Motel Mattress). Performing shows together in separate groups for years, these musicians came together in January of 2011 and started work on a new album of Mark Mandeville's songs. As the songs began to progress the group decided to enlist the help of Hannah Peckham (vocal harmony), Doug Williamson (Piano, harmonica, papusse, mandolin) and Peter Hart (Dobro, Pedal Steel) forming a rich folk country sound.
After spending 7 Months recording, the group performed for an audience for the first time on August 6, 2011 at the annual Celebration of Life Festival in Barre, MA. With their logo (hand drawn by MA artist Dan Blakeslee) hand painted on a barn at the grounds of the above festival the group plans to tour the United States this fall with arrangements including drums, bass, electric lead guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, ukulele and clarinet.
The group is currently raising money for their tour by selling T-shirts with the new logo on them. If you would like to support their cause by ordering a T-shirt please email your size and color preference (red with white lettering or tan with brown lettering) to mark@markmandeville.com
