Marty Helly
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play lo-fi play hi-fi  Songwriter Blues
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Reflections on a Bottle
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Just One More (very rough version)
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Journey to Somewhere
play lo-fi play hi-fi  RIP (Rock In Peace - a tribute to Joe Strummer)
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Ice - rough version
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Spring
Check out ICE on the music page. Its appropriate this time of year.

New for 2008: Saturdays its the Songwriter trio at Bishops Lounge (downtown Northampton) featuring Bruce Mandaro on guitar, Jim Walsh behind the drum kit and Marty on bass. We mix it up with songs written by each of us and occasionally throw in a cover or a request. 6 to 8 pm

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A million life stories written every day, each a song to play, there’s so little time.

Marty Helly is on the road to experience everything life has to offer and express it in the music he plays. While he loves the complexity of progressive rock and jazz, you’re just as likely to find him on stage solo with a guitar and a folk ballad, or at the piano tickling the ivories with a pop standard, or pounding out a driving bass line behind a screaming blues band.

I now have a blog HERE
Why this name?
My grandparents picked it and my folks just copied them. This is my solo page so the band is usually just me thanks to the wonders of multi-tracking.

Check out the Tnias band page with Arjuna's songs, including the winner for the Best Spoken Word Song at the 2004 Just Plain Folks Songwriting Awards here: Normal Is
Do you play live?
My live performances in the past year have been limited to the Northeast - primarily Western Massachusetts but also in Vermont, Connecticut, and New York.

The magical moments haven’t been the bigger shows, or even the paid ones. Among the true highlights: Performing "Take This Job and Shove It”" at a Sunday morning church service (and still getting paid!); Serenading the sunrise after an all night party on the Jersey Shore; Singing to the stars with a hundred friends in the natural rock ampitheater on Flagstaf above Boulder, CO.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
It makes sites like this, where artists can post a song without a major label spending obscene amounts of money, possible!
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
If I wrote the contract.
Band History:
Marty has been playing music forever. Starting with piano lessons at five and classical guitar before his teens, he moved on to a Strat and school rock bands and then to gigs in club bands and as a soloist. Past projects have literally covered everything from A to Z – Acapella choirs to Zeppelin style rock - blues bars to rock shows to coffeehouse folk to church performances. His travels have taken him throughout the U.S. (48 of the 50 states), Canada, Mexico and Europe.