Mark Mulholland is a travelling singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer, whose musical peregrinations have taken him from his native Scotland through most of Europe and North America, via Haiti and Mali, where he lived for several years, and now to France.

Always combining his solo career with various bands and projects including Two Dollar Bash, an acoustic folk/country/blues group with whom he has recorded 4 albums, the Celtic/Mandingue fusion Alba Griot Ensemble, and collaborations with the Haitian poet Frankétienne or the Malian griot singer Kankou Kouyate, to name but a few, he is also in demand as a session musician, having made recordings over the years with Nikki Sudden, Captain Sensible, Toumani Diabate, Tony Allen and many other artists, and as a producer and engineer, producing several albums for Glitterbeat Records, as well as work with Rachid Taha, Tony Rose, Wesli and Afel Bocoum, whose album, “Lindé” he recorded and co-produced with Paul Chandler, Damon Albarn and Nick Gold. “Baarakelaw”, the album Mark produced for the Malian legend Samba Touré, reached #1 on the Transglobal World Music Chart on its release in January 2025. His influences include Celtic folk, country, reggae, blues, jazz, rock and punk, and beside acoustic and electric guitar, he also turns his hand to other stringed instruments including banjo, mandola, bouzouki, bass and lap steel guitar.

Mark’s songs have been covered on albums in the USA (Barleyjuice, Sharla June and the Mayhaws), the UK (George Stott) and the Czech Republic (The Lazy Pigs) and also feature in the live repertoire of a wide variety of artists throughout Europe, America and beyond.

As well as multiple albums with bands, he has released four critically acclaimed solo albums, “The Devil on the Stairs” (2008), “The Cactus and the Dragon” (2011), “Revolutions go in Circles” (2022), and “Fighting with your Shadow” (2024), all now available on Ports of Call Music.

2024 saw Mark singing lead vocals on “Playing with the Big Boys”, a song he co-wrote with French trip-hop/electro-pop pioneer Kid Loco, on Kid Loco’s album “Concrete Islands, Lies & Vanités”, along with several remix versions. The pair have continued their collaboration, with Kid Loco producing Mark’s song “Another Sunset”, released as a single on 19/12/25, and further projects in the pipeline for 2026.

Mark has also recorded a new album, “Setting Sail Again”, with the Australian drummer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Hughes, revisiting some of Mark’s older unreleased songs, which will be released in 2026.

Mark is touring regularly, solo and with a variety of different combinations.