Performances and Speaking Engagements

Angie Mack is a musical director, performing artist, blues educator and writer who has a wealth of experience and connections in the arts and entertainment industry.

Angie Mack Musician Bio

Angie Mack is a musician who was born in the “Hardware Capital of the World”, also known as Sterling, Illinois.  To ease her boredom and creative itch, she played her Vintage Magnus Electric Chord Organ as a child, tried to give her little brother drum lessons, choreographed dances for her and her sister to dance to, and directed neighborhood musicals.  Angie’s main love was the performing arts from an early age.  She was gifted in the arts yet had a lot of adverse childhood experiences.  Music was how she coped.  She wrote her first song in third grade, wrote another song for her high school graduation ceremony in Fort Atkinson, WI and then self-produced two albums, Comfort My People and Momentum using the minimal tools that she had at home while raising her three little boys.  Her dream is to record the songs with the full orchestral and live musician sounds that she originally heard in her head when she was in her early 20s.  

Angie’s main goal in life was to be a female composer and to possibly write music for films or musicals.  She started out with a full scholarship to UW-Whitewater as a Music Theory Major and Vocal Minor.  But life had its tragedies and turns, and she found herself becoming the music director at Spirit Life Church in Mequon, WI. Teammates included singer/songwriter Lori Wilke, progressive rock guitarist Rob Wessel and Milwaukee brothers Will and Kevin Bush of Immortal Girlfriend.  Angie continued to write songs because they were constantly in her brain.  She recorded some and put others in boxes to be used at a later date.  Several were written and sung as congregational songs including, “It’s Good to Be Home” which was recently pulled out of her archive and released as a new single.

A piece of mail from a record collector that she thought was junk mail led her down a 20-something year of becoming a globally recognized advocate for the musicians who recorded for Paramount Records just a stone’s throw from where she currently lives at the “Grafton House of Blues”.  She also had the adventure of discovering Blind Blake’s unmarked grave which made headlines around the world. Grafton now has a giant piano otherwise known as the Paramount Walk of Fame in the heart of its downtown thanks to Angie’s spearheading efforts of networking and educating.  The show PBS History Detectives even came to film in Grafton upon Angie’s story submission.  Angie also worked with playwright Kevin Ramsey on Grafton City Blues/Chasin’ Dem Blues and contributed to Jack White’s Grammy Award Winning Paramount Box Sets. 

Meanwhile, she found herself teaching music to youth, directing at least a hundred youth events and musicals and began her own music business, Ozaukee Talent, in 2016.  Her annual music on the porch concerts have hosted a series of heavy hitting musicians.  Angie has played with a lot of musicians over the years primarily and intentionally in improvisational, jam-band style and low-key settings.  Her primary instruments have been vocals and keys.  Her passion is percussion, and she dabbles with rhythm guitar playing and cedar flute blowing.  She played with a European Rock band called Rock Berlin.  The lead asked her to work with him on a song that he wrote called, “Just Fly”.  Angie wrote the storyboard for the music video.  

Her personal spiritual walk, desire to use her multidisciplinary arts skills and recent deaths of her sister and father have been instrumental in leading her back to her first love which is performing and songwriting.  She spent her lifetime lifting up others and the arts but now hopes to have the support to record her songs which primarily offer inspiration and hope.  She has a musical inside of her and would like to have an extended period of time to focus solely on writing it.  She has written for musicals on a smaller scale in the past.   A serendipitous meeting of Sarah Fierek of Sincerely in Song has begun to open her world which has primarily been dedicated to working with youth in the arts and advocating as a volunteer for the Paramount recording artists.  She will be performing three of her many originals at the 3rd annual Wildflowers on the Water Festival in Milwaukee, WI. 

Wildflowers on the Water hosted by Sincerely in Song in support of Friends of Lakeshore State Park Photo Credit: OMJ MEDIA