bart delaney began his professional career in 1998 as a street musician in Mexico. With a guitar on his shoulder and a wooden bowl in his backpack, he played and sang his way through the country's cantinas, plazas, and buses, finding his voice and discovering his true passion in music. Currently, bart is the upright bass player and Road Manager for the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra. He travels with the band 48 weeks each year, playing 300 shows throughout the United States, Canada and Japan. In addition to playing his bass every night with this 70 year old legacy, bart manages the only full time touring big band left in the world. Previously, bart has toured as lead guitar player for the Washington D.C. based ska band, the Velveteens; slapped some hard rocking bass with Peacetrain in Austin, TX and danced with his upright bass at Graceland in Memphis, TN with the Chorduroys. He has played for Doc Dockery, Susan Davidson, and Richard Abel and has been webcast live with his own Water Street Band from the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, NV. As a singer and songwriter, bart has catalogued his travels in song for his own West Water Street project. With each different experience that he encounters, he attempts to capture that particular window of time in an album. bart has played his songs across the globe and puts his own Water Street Band together whenever the occasion should necessitate. bart is the son of an U.S. Army Colonel and a free spirited mother from New Zealand. His love to play music has been realized through his predestination to travel. "You only go around one time, you’ve only got one song to sing." (One Life to Live, 1998)