M Ward live in concert.
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M Ward

65
critic concert reviews
folk

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

73
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Based on 
65
critic concert
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Critic Consensus

Based on 65 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that M Ward is rated as a watchable live performer, with decent shows overall. M Ward concert reviews describe live shows and performances as engaging and masterful.

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Latest Release

For Beginners: The Best of M. Ward (13 September 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
folk
Origin
Thousand Oaks, United States (10/4/1973)
Bio
Matthew Stephen Ward (b 4th October 1973, Newbury Park, California), known by his stage name M. Ward.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

Scenestr (Australia)

December 12, 2023
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Indie Americana artist M. Ward – or Matthew Ward, off stage – has long had a happy second home in Australia, on the other side of the world to his Portland, Oregon, base.

Scenestr (Australia)

December 6, 2023
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Portland, Oregon's Monster of Folk, sometimes Zooey Deschanel collaborator and Americana troubadour, M. Ward united with Melbourne's Folk Bitch Trio in his first visit to Adelaide to celebrate 20 years since the release of breakthrough album 'Transfiguration Of Vincent'.

Exclaim (Canada)

July 11, 2018
70
%
RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa on July 10, 2018

The Skinny (UK)

September 7, 2016
80
%
Gorilla, Manchester, UK on September 1, 2016

Exclaim (Canada)

September 10, 2014
60
%
Petit Campus, Montreal, Canada

Grateful Web (USA)

August 28, 2012
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Boulder, USA

The Guardian (UK)

July 4, 2012
80
%
After a decade spent forging a solo career in the cosy backwater of the US alt-country and indie-folk scenes the singer-songwriter from Portland Oregon saw his seventh album A Wasteland Companion flirt with the Billboard top 20 this year.

Past critic reviews published in

Buzz Magazine (UK), V13 (Canada), The Scotsman (Scotland), The Skinny (UK), The Arts Desk (UK) and more

Image Credit

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