April 08 - Canadian Festival Tour Dates announced & new look Myspace
Mar 08 - Australian Tour with Canadian group The Undesirables (Myspace)
Jan-Feb 08 - Waifs Touring and Union of the Soul tour with John Butler Trio (link)
Aug 07 - Dave's gig opening for Chris Smither appears on YOUTUBE , go rate it!
July 07 - Honorable mention at Folks Festival Songwriter Showcase
June 07 - Apearing at Stan Rogers Folk Festival, Nova Scotia, Canada
May 07 - On tour with The Waifs with Keith Urban
April 07 - Apollo Bay Festival, Victoria, Australia and SONIC BIDS SPOTLIGHT!!
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March 07 - Album recording in Nashville, opening for Chris Smither & Live Video shoot
- The Waifs are back in the studio and have Dave in to do some drumming at the Compass Records Studios ... check the Waifs site for launch details (thewaifs.com.au)
- Americana guitarist and song writing maestro Chris Smither will be touring Australia and Dave will be opening a couple shows in Queensland.
- At one of the Smither shows, Dave will be under the gaze of a few cameras in preparation for a live DVD for release later in the year!
February 07 - Sonic Bids and Acoustic Guitar Magazine
- "These songs have a spare poetry about them, a gentle and knowing presence, whether they tend more toward haiku .... or toward a dark and driven lament .... This marvelous Australian fingerpicking guitarist’s instrument is an extension of his voice, singing his appealingly emotional songs right along with him." by Judith Edelman, Acoustic Guitar Magazine
- Premier songwriter festival The Stan Rogers Folk Festival selects Dave to play at this years festival in June via Sonic Bids
January 07 - Acoustic Rainbow, Apache Rose, Intn'l Songwriting Comp & Radio Action !
- 'Til I'm Gone' from Knuckled Brass and Bone, has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition.
- 'Knuckled Brass and Bone' selected in 'Best of 2006' series presented during December on Mixed Bag, heard on WVIA-FM. Daves album was selected by series host George Graham from the over 500 CDs in his top releases of June '06.
- 'Knuckled Brass and Bone' Charts @ #7 for week 3 on Kevin Elliott's 'From the Joshua Tree Inn' Radio Show WEFT - 90.1 FM, Champaign, IL
- 'Til I'm Gone' has been selected in the top 20 songs for Apache Rose Publishing, Inc's Watchin Out for Folk project. Apache Rose Publishing through Sonic Bids selected Dave's song from 100's of submissions to be part of a compilation disk 'Watching Out For Folk'.
-Dave's music has been selected from hundreds of submissions to be included on an upcoming volume of the Acoustic Rainbow Sampler Compilation CD for distribution to over 1200 radio stations world wide. Check it out ! (Acoustic Rainbow)
December 06 - Feature Film/DVD music for with Road Rambler Films USA
- Dave's menacing an brooding song 'Upon The Saw' selected for Road Rambler Films full length DVD movie Street Players ! Click here to see the trailer.
- "...a gifted songwriter and formidable guitar player." Graham McDonald, Canberra Times
* November 06 - Listen Up - Vol 3 : Sonic Bids Success Story !
Dave's song 'Easier Said' is selected from over 500 Sonic Bids submissions to be included in the Sonicbids Listen Up Volume 3 Compilation CD , featuring 13 other songwriters from around the world!
* October 06 Australian Tour - Opening for Kelly Joe Phelps
Don't miss this opportunity to see one of the finest blues fingerstyle artists and songsmith Kelly Joe Phelps. Dave will be opening the bulk of his Australian dates.
* September 06 - American Songwriter Magazine : Sonic Bids Success Story !
Dave selected by American Songwriter Magazine as a top 15 finalist in their Craft Of Music Volume 1 Compilation CD . Check out the streaming audio from Knuckled Brass and Bone at American Songwriter Magazine !
* July 06 - American Radio Airplay
- 'Knuckled Brass and Bone' # 28 on WVIA's top Albums July 2006
* June 06 - American Radio Airplay
- 'Knuckled Brass and Bone' #55 on FolkDJ Chart, Richard Gillmans Top Albums of June 06
- "Got it, Listened to it! Love it! I am gonna play it'! Kevin Vance, KALW, San Francisco
* American Songwriter (Oct ’05)
Macdonald is one of those few singer/songwriters like Nick Drake, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) and Josh Ritter that can captivate his listeners armed only with a voice and guitar.
Evan James
* Sing Out! (Winter ’05)
A pretty damn good guitarist.
JA
* 'Far From Here' selected by Acoustic Guitar Magazine in "Reviewers Top Picks for 2004"
* Acoustic Guitar Magazine (Nov '04)
Best known as the drummer for the Australian folk group the Waifs, David Ross MacDonald revealed a different side of his musical persona on his 2003 debut solo album, Southern Crossing, a collection of original fingerstyle guitar instrumentals.
His most recent album is a further revelation, showcasing his substantial skills as a singer-songwriter.
MacDonald's vocals, lyrics, and intricate fingerstyle guitar playing bring to mind a collaboration between Nick Drake and a mid-1970s Bruce Cockburn. Like the latter, MacDonald's well constructed songs often use imagery drawn from nature, oceans and forests, in particular, but unlike Cockburn, MacDonald occasionally portrays the natural world as an unpredictable and potentially threatening realm. In 'The Pearl,' an epic tale of two pearl-diving brothers ends in tragedy, and in 'Cannery Row,' seven lives are lost to an ocean storm.
Ross' lyrics are dark and thoughtful, and in combination with his hypnotic fingerstyle guitar work, they create evocative songs with a haunting, poignant quality.
Ron Forbes-Roberts
* Dirty Linen (Jan ’03)
A gifted guitarist and composer.
JLe