{"id":122,"date":"2011-03-09T00:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T00:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2013-04-20T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T15:03:05","slug":"mark-holihan-vocals-guitar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/bio\/mark-holihan-vocals-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Holihan: Vocals &amp; Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0720adj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"IMG_0720adj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0720adj-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Mark is the founding member of Mulligan Stew. \u00a0The band started as an offshoot\u00a0for him and his friend&#8217;s Rich Trumbo &amp;\u00a0Bob Stern while playing folk music together in the mid-seventies. \u00a0On his first trip to Ireland back in 1977, Mark fell in love with his rediscovered heritage and the music. \u00a0The transition \u00a0from Folk to Celtic was very quick and soon they were playing in the emerging Chicago Irish Music Scene. \u00a0Mark\u2019s musical legacy comes from the church choirs he has belonged to and his Lane Tech High School Music Teacher, George Rico. \u00a0This lead him to the American Conservatory of Music where he studied Voice with Frances Ernest &amp; Walter Kirchner\u00a0and Composition with William Ferris which has helped him in the arrangements for the band as well as the original compositions he has composed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark is the founding member of Mulligan Stew. \u00a0The band started as an offshoot\u00a0for him and his friend&#8217;s Rich Trumbo &amp;\u00a0Bob Stern while playing folk music together in the mid-seventies. \u00a0On his first trip to Ireland back in 1977, Mark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/bio\/mark-holihan-vocals-guitar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/243"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mulliganstewchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}