In addition to his own CD's entitled Transformation, Tony Parker, Seven over Four, My Titanium Six, and A Song for Every Season, he has produced three additional projects including Another Family Christmas and Christmas Toledo (both used in fund-raising campaigns for Toledo's Homeless Awareness Project in 1996-1998); and The Bill Jenkins Trio: Jazz 1969 (a fund-raiser and public awareness project for MADD in both Philadelphia and northeast Ohio, released in October 2000). He is a recipient of an ASCAP Special Popular Award, and has made several solo appearances at various locations including:
Barnes & Noble (Fairless Hills, PA; South Bend, IN; Toledo, OH)
Booster's Coffee House (Bristol, PA)
Border's Books (Cuyahoga Falls, OH; North Canton, OH)
Brewed Awakenings (Toledo, OH)
Sufficient Grounds (Toledo, OH)
Media Play (Toledo, OH)
The Fall Harvest Heritage Festival (Pittsburgh, PA)
Border's Books and Music (Oxford Valley, PA)
Tony currently performs on a regular basis with the Contemporary Folk Choir of the Church of Saint Andrew in Newtown, PA. During his live performances, Tony sings and plays with guitar & harmonica (in his recordings, he adds his own piano and bass accompaniment).
For more information about Tony Parker or any of these projects, please e-mail
StarMacpar@aol.com.
THE STARLITE-MACPARK LABEL Starlite-MacPark was created by Tony Parker in 1996, and has established itself as a publisher dedicated to promoting the music of multiple artists, writers, and composers for the primary purpose of supporting the efforts of community service organizations.
After meeting Stephanie Eichenberg of Toledo's Homeless Awareness Project (HAP, a non-profit arm of the Toledo Metropolitan Mission), Tony Parker came up with the idea of using his own music to sponsor a fund raising project. With the help of several talented artists, A Song for Every Season (the title track of Tony Parker's first CD) was released as a single together with Another Family Christmas on the Starlite-MacPark label (ASCAP). Both songs received considerable airplay on popular local stations in December of 1996. This first production resulted in instant exposure for HAP and its cause, and it set the stage for bigger projects to come, including the 1997 Starlite-MacPark/HAP release of Christmas Toledo (a compilation of public domain songs by local artists including one of Toledo's home-grown celebrities, Jamie Farr). This compilation went on to raise more than $20,000.00 for HAP in 1997, and even more in 1998 and 1999.
Also released by Starlite-MacPark (in October 2000) was The Bill Jenkins Trio: Jazz 1969, a collection of jazz arrangements by the late Mr. Bill Jenkins. All of the proceeds from this disc will benefit the Philadelphia and Northeastern Ohio chapters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.