Cloud Surfing

This just in from Maile Hatfield, wife of Mark Karan:

Just wanted to share the joy… Mark has just gotten the results of his latest MRI.. ALL CLEAR!!! That’s one year now… and we’re grateful every day.

Now on with the music!!!!!

He’ll be performing with RatDog in Jamaica later this month, then working to finish his album this spring, and we’ll tell you shortly about a few special events!

From John Metzger’s online magazine The Music Box:

Last year, Music Box correspondent Douglas Heselgrave sat down with Ratdog’s Mark Karan to talk about the guitarist’s unique role within the band. A few months later, Karan was forced to withdraw from the road in order to seek treatment for throat cancer. Following up on their prior conversation, Heselgrave and Karan chatted about recent events, including Karan’s health, his forthcoming outing with Jemimah Puddleduck, and his return to Ratdog for the outfit’s spring tour. Read the article here.

And take a look at last year’s Music Box article on Mark.

From the ratdog web site:

our lead guitarist
2/12/08

Short and sweet, Dog Heads: If you were wondering who’s playing lead guitar for our upcoming spring tour, it would be one Mark Karan. In the words of our fearless leader Senor Weir, “Mark’s back. It’s pretty much a miracle.”

Mark added, “with much gratitude after long months of hard work, joy, fear, hope, affirmation… and finally triumph… i have been given the ‘all clear’ by my wonderful doctors @ UCSF and am really pleased and excited to be able to say i’ll definitely be on the RatDog bus heading your way this spring. yippee! i’m looking forward to seeing all y’all and to playing with and for you very, very soon… thank you for all the love and support you’ve given me thru my greatest challenge.

much love, MK”