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What I Do: Booking Agent

For: ANNIVERSARY GROUP ARTS
(2022-Present)


    Case Studies
Pierre Kwenders
Newport Jazz / Big Ears
Desert Daze


What I Did: Sales Lead

For: SESSIONS
(2020-2021)


    Case Studies
Andrew Bird
Desert Daze (Livestream)
Jukebox The Ghost
Bombino
Vieux Farka Toure & more


What I Did: Founder, Producer, Performer, Composer, Sync Licensing, Booking Agent

For: MATTSON 2
 (2003-2024)


    Projects
Recordings
Synch Licensing
Touring


What I Did: Music Consultant, Global Music Marketing

For: SPECIALIZED BYCICLE COMPONENTS 
(2016-2023)


    Projects
  1. 2018
  2. 2019
  3. 2020
  4. 2021
  5. 2022


What I did: Music Director

For: COAST UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 
(2016-2017)



    Mark

    DESERT DAZE
    Since day one.


    I was there in Mecca, CA (2014)—when Tinariwen played a daytime set and stirred up a literal sandstorm. Blonde Redhead headlined just before Vincent Gallo’s elusive, no-photos performance (not that it stopped me from getting one with him and my twin earlier that day).

    Jonathan Mattson & Jared Mattson (The Mattson 2) w/ Vincent Gallo at Desert Daze



    Client HOOVERIII, billed on the highly anticipated 10 year anniversary & return of Tame Impala - post torrential downpour chaos.

      Desert Daze poster (2014)


    Since then, I’ve kept close. Partnered events. Festival bookings for my clients. Leading the deal on a livestream partnership (see HERE).


    From the dust to the main stage. Still growing. Still connected.


    Projects with Desert Daze include:
    booking my clients Tino Drima and Vicky Farewell at DD’s new “Mountain” incarnation at Sweet Water - Mill Valley, CA (manifested in 2023) 
    Performing w/ my own band Mattson 2 at Desert Daze nights at ACE Hotel Palm Springs & at Desert Daze’s memorable 2018 Sunrise Set, where we played Coltrane’s A Love Supreme

    Booking showcases at Gold Diggers, Hollywood & San Diego Freakout Festival for my cleint Pearl & The Oysters

    Hooveriii’s Record Release show at Gold Diggers in Hollywood, and their appearance at the highly anticipated 10 year anniversary/return of Tame Impala - post torrential downpour disaster (poster above).
    Mark
    Running on Cargo