Singer Songwriter, Steve Mramor Invited to Perform His Song

Online, June 12, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Singer-songwriter Steve Mramor has been invited to perform his original song Uncle Johnny, chronicling the 1936 death of his great-uncle, Johnnie Femec, in Franklin's Mine 24, along with other original and traditional folk music June 21-22, 2013, at the Miners Hall Museum.

Mramor's performance coincides with the Smithsonian's traveling exhibition "The Way We Worked," which honors the heritage of Crawford and Cherokee County May 11-June 23. Spanning the years 1857-1987, the exhibit chronicles the effects of American ideals of freedom and equality, industrialization, labor unrest, immigration and working conditions in the mines, on farms and assembly lines.

Mramor, who was born and resides in Cleveland, OH, also will share anecdotal history of life in Franklin during the Great Depression passed down from his mother and grandmother, who lived in Franklin before moving to Cleveland.

In addition to discussing Franklin's Slovenian heritage, Mramor is donating a DVD dedicated to his family's life here, along with archival photographs, newspaper articles, letters, and family artifacts, to the Miners Hall Museum.

Other members of the band include cousins Steven Kacsmar, of San Francisco, and Jesse Settle, of Weirton, WV, who also trace their roots to Franklin, and Charley Brown, Cathy Finegan, and Troy Seymour, of Cleveland.

Steve, a self-taught guitarist, started his own musical career in a high school band in his hometown of Euclid, Ohio. After nearly 30 years, his love of playing music was reawakened when he heard Raven Dana and her daughter singing in a local coffee house.

Steve and Raven formed a band called Witch and Toad and collaborated on the album "You Can Never Go Home Again." Their original music is played on Cleveland area radio stations as well as several Internet radio stations including Muse Boat Radio, the Cox Radio Show, Woman of Substance and Live Ireland. They and their music have been featured on Celtica Radio's Underground Edition with Bill Everatt (Wales UK, Radio Hafren, 756kHz AM) and on Radio Seagull, 1602 AM, Harlingen, Netherlands.

Steve' first loves remain composition and songwriting. In addition to continuing with Witch and Toad, he pursues a solo career and currently is working on an album of new originals titled "Fat Tod and Other True Cleveland Stories." Steve is also involved in a partnership with fellow Clevelander Charley Brown. Steve and Charley play various venues in the area and continue to create new music together.