Marv Machura loves to entertain and uplift events, occasions, and venues with live music. Machura is a great choice for a great show for your next event.
Marv Machura performs classic country, folk, rock, and blues music. He performs as a "singing guitarist" with his custom backing tracks for dancing and listening, including 2-stepping, line-dancing country dance and rock/blues standards and well as traditional lounge music, yacht rock, and folk. He also can perform traditional acoustic sets.
Marv Machura has released four acclaimed CDs, 15 current singles, and 20 published songs in Nashville. He has performed his songs at many Western Canadian music festivals, folk clubs, and concerts.
Well, it could not of gone any better!!! Highly recommend Marv Machura 5 stars 🌟 are not enough. Great communication, punctual, learn't a special song just for us...I could go on, Thanks for having a site like Gigsalad to find these hidden talents, I had lots of reply as well as recommendations. 🎤
Response from Marv Machura:
Thanks Gee! I was honoured to be a part of your special leap-year birthday celebration for your friend, and I enjoyed learning the songs; that is to say, it was fun all around! ...and the cake was heavenly! Cheers!
It was our honor to host, " Marv Machura" at our event here at "The View " . Marv , was amazing, great stories, great songs, which almost everyone could sing along to . We truly enjoyed him. All our residents want him back at other events . So, we will be booking him again and bringing him back for other events that we'll be having in the future. Great guy.
It was an absolute pleasure having Marv out this summer for our Music on the Patio series at Predator Ridge!
Response from Marv Machura:
Thanks so much, Kirsten. It was a pleasure to be there on such a wonderful day--and meet you there as well!
Price Range: $100 and up
Gig Length: 10 - 180 minutes
Languages: English
Marv Machura gives complete professional, engaging, great-sounding show.
Machura covers music by classic artists and hits from many decades. He tailors his show to the audience from his extensive repertoire.
Expect an original, warm, and personable sound and presence featuring voice and guitar delivered by an experienced, stand-up entertainer. Expect an traditional entertainer who loves to entertain, have fun, and make the most of each moment.
Marv Machura started performing professionally in wedding/dance bands as a teen. As soon as he turned 18, he began working as a singing guitarist in the bars and lounges around his hometown of Edmonton. He started writing songs in the 1980s, publishing songs in Nashville and being featured at many country and folk festivals. In 1990s and 2000s, he formed and led several bands that eventually morphed into the Marv Machura Band (a three-piece folk-rock band). Upon moving to Vernon, BC, in 2013, Marv Machura returned to his solo-performer roots, and he currently enjoys playing all over the Okanagan and Thompson Valleys while he continues to write, record, and perform his own Western Canadian Roots music.
Marv Machura is equipped with professional quality sound equipment and lights to fit the event: small, medium, or large.
I have been performing solo and as a band leader for over 40 years and have many songs in my active repertoire. And I am always learning more. Also, I am willing to learn a special song for your event. Each event is always a bit different--and I always play for the crowd.
Country Dance
- Rhinestone Cowboy
- Try a-little Kindness
- Gentle on My Mind
- Mercury Blues
- Five O’clock Somewhere
- Living on Love
- Margaritaville
- Freight Train
- Fulsome Prison Blues
- Understand Your Man
- Ring of Fire
- This Thing Called Love
- Four Strong Winds
- Someday Soon
- Navajo Rug
- Alberta’s Child
- Summer Wages
- On the Road Again
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Mama’s Don’t …. Babies
- Luckenbach Texas
- Good Hearted Woman
- Poncho and Lefty
- Take it Easy
- Peaceful Easy Feeling
- Lyin Eyes
- Hotel California
- Help Me Make … the Night
- Have You Ever … the Rain
- Lodi
- Wagon Wheel
- Amarillo by Morning
- When You Say Nothing at All
- Don’t Close Your Eyes
- Me and Boby McGee
- I Love This Bar
- Life is Good Today
- Silver Wings
- Mama Tried
- Working Man Blues
- A Better Man
- Some Broken … Mend
- All I Have to Do is Dream
- Back Home Again
- Red River Valley
- Could I Have This Dance
- The Dance
- The Last Waltz
- He … Loving Her Today
- Try a little Kindness
- Six Days on the Road
- Green … Grass of Home
- I Can’t Help…With You
- For Ever and Ever Amen - Let Your Love Flow
- No Shoes…, No Problem
- Fast As You
- Guitar, Cadillacs
- Jabalya
- Some Kind of Fool
- The Hockey Song
- Gumboot Cloggeroo
- Annie’s Song
- The Tennessee Waltz
- Country Roads
- Cotton Jenny
- Alberta Bound
- The Farmers Song
- I Can’t Help It
- Thanks God… Country Boy
- Wild Horses
- That Summer
- Movin On
Blues Dance
- Flip, Flop, and Fly
- Mustang Sally
- Let the Good Time Roll
- The House is Rocking
- The Thrill is Gone
- The Call Me the Breeze
- Lay Down Sally
- After Midnight
- I’m Tore Down
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Hound Dog
- Every Day I Have the Blues
- Further On Up the Road
Rock and Roll Dance
- Mary Jane’s Last Dance
- Cherry Cherry
- Sweet Caroline
- Crackling Rosie
- Dancing in the Dark
- Twist and Shout
- What I Like About You
- Kentucky Woman
- Cherry Bomb
- Small Town
- Scarecrow
- Cinnamon Girl
- Takin Care of Business
- Jumping Jack Flash
- ROCK in the USA
- Authority Song
- Long Train Running
- Old Time Rock and Roll
- Blue Suede Shoes - Move it On Over
- Heart of Gold
- Let it Be
- Hey Jude
- Free Fallin’
- American Girl
- All Along the Watch Tower
- Just 17
- All Summer Long
- Old Man
- Southern Man
- Sweet Home Alabama
Lounge
- Galveston
- Wildfire
- My Way
- You’re Too Good to be True
- Quando, Quando, Quando
- New York, New York
- Brandy
- Your Song
- Daniel
- Wichita Lineman
- The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald
- Early Morning Rain
- I’m Not Saying
- The Circle is Small
- Piano Man
- Maggie May
- The Boxer
- He Ain’t Heavy
- American Pie
- Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
- Sounds of Silence
- I Have to Say I … in a Song
- I Got a Name
- Don’t Mess Around with Jim
- Perfect
- When We Were Young
- Operator
- Leaving on a Jet Plane
- Rocky Mountain High
- Sunshine on My Shoulders
- Grandma’s Feather Bed
- Follow Me
- Poems … and Promises
- Rhymes and Reasons
- Blowing in the Wind
- Don’t Think Twice
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- I Love You to Want Me
- What’s Going On
- Wonderful World
Marv Machura has been influenced by classic country/roots/folk/rock artists such as Johnny Cash, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian Tyson, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, The Beatles, Elton John, John Cougar, Allen Jackson, etc.
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