Sharkey McEwen

Mark "Sharkey" McEwen is an American, California-born musician and record producer, currently living in the Hudson Valley area of New York .

[1] Born into a musical family, Mark "Sharkey" McEwen began learning to play the electric guitar from his older brother from the age of 11.

In 1980 McEwen moved to Hollywood, CA and in 1981 was a founding member of the LA based group Boy along with Freddy Moore, who released the EP "Boy Next Door" in 1983.

Shortly after moving to New York in 1990, Sharkey joined the New York City based hard rock group, The Ancestors, who released the album Brigadoon in 1994 which he co-produced.

In 1998, Joziah Longo, Tink Lloyd, Tony Zuzulo and Sharkey McEwen formed the Hudson Valley-based group, Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, with whom he continues to perform.