HIT
N RUN (Biography)
Thanks
for your interest in Hit n Run, Buffalo's premier party band.
Hit N Run is a 6 piece band that was recently inducted into
the Buffalo Music Hall of fame in 2009. Hit N Run has won
9 years in a row "Buffalo's Music Awards" Top Pop
Rock band. We are Channel 4's reigning winner over the last
few years for "Best-Of Cover Rock Band" and have
won the Peoples Choice award for Top Rock band, just about
every year they had it. In 2010, HNR won Top Keyboardist,
Top Guitarist, Top female and Top male Vocalist in the BMA's
and NightLife awards. In May 2011, we won our third Art Voice
award for top rock band along with top Male Vocalist and then
in December Guy Nichols won another award for Top Rock bassist
& both Mark Valentino (Vocalist) and Hit n Run was given
"Lifetime Acievement" awards. In 2009 Hit N Run
was signed to a National Recording Contract with Rhapsody
records & cut our first CD.2
The
band has won 24 awards for the group alone. For individual
awards, Mark Valentino (Lead Vocalist) started Hit n Run
and has Buffalo's Top Male vocalist 18 times between the
Buffalo Music Awards, Art Voice Awards NightLife and the
Peoples Choice awards. Mark was flown to NYC by promoters
to sing on Broadway with members of American Idol. Dan Kaplin
(Top Guitarist) and Pat Annunziata (Top Rock Keyboardist)
have won 4X each. Joe Suplicki (Top Drummer) along with
Kelly Wahl (Top Female Vocalist) have won 3X each. Joe Suplicki
was also inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame. Guy
Nichols (Bass Player) has won so many times that he was
put into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame. In October of 2009
Hit n Run, the band was inducted into the Buffalo Music
Hall of Fame, which is a tribute to all present & past
members.
Hit
n Run has opened for such National Acts as: The Kinks, Brett
Michaels of Poison (2X), Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons,
The Tubes, Honeymoon Suite (5X), Jeff Healy, The Fabulous
Thunderbirds, Rick Derringer, Edgar Winter, The Rascals,
The Tokens, Blue Oyster Cult, Steppenwolf, Firehouse (2X),
Asia, The Little River Band and many more. We have also
received offers from Styx, Kim Mitchell, Eddie Money, the
Grass Roots, and Boston to open for them. To be able to
open up for groups from the 60's, 70's 80's and 90's, a
band has to be both, very good and very versatile. We exceptionally
reproduce anything from ACDC, to Neil Diamond, Bon Jovi,
Boston, Styx, Rush, Franki Valli, Kansas, Supertramp, REO
Speedwagon, Michael Jackson,, Goo Goo Dolls, Def Leppard,
Motley Crew, Poison, Cheap Trick, Theory of a Dead Man,
Van Morrison, Van Halen, Train, Garth Brooks, Lynard Skynard,
Grand Funk, 3 Doors Down, Dion & the Belmonts, Pat Benatar,
Foriegnor, Prince, Queen, Journey and more.
Hit
N Run promotes all the functions that we play at. We send
out 1500 weekly emails to loyal Hit N Run followers and
weekly invites to our over 4000 Facebook friends and send
over 500 postcard each month. Our website (www.hitnrun.net)
has over 470,000 hits and you can see the crowds that we
draw on each and every show through the website in the "Club
Pics" area. We have a number of local radio stations
provide us some free plugs on the band and where we play
(97 Rock, WBEN, WYRK, 102.5 and more.) You can call (I will
provide references) any of the larger local clubs (Macaroons,
The Aud, Rhino's, Club Paradise) or Lawn fetes chairs (Queen
of Heaven, Clarence Carnival, Alden Carnival, St John Vianney,
Resurrection, St Johns in Alden, OLBS and more) and they
will tell you that Hit N Run is the best drawing band for
their club/function in the area.
With
the wide array of material (mostly Dance and sing-along
Classic Rock, with some Oldies, newer Alternative material,
and a touch of Country, Disco and Blues) we strive to play
something for everyone. This is why we are such a success
at the outdoor, all ages performances, like the Erie County
Fair, The Canal Concerts, All major huge Lawn Fetes, The
Taste of Buffalo, Fire hall parties, Bisons Park Shows,
Wingstock, Christmas parties, Town Park Shows (Lancaster,
North Tonawanda, Cheektowaga and Williamsville) and Carnivals.
All
of that means nothing. You can put it on a website. But
to realize the true representation of a band is to go and
see them "LIVE" with their current line-up. This
way you can judge the actual talent, see the crowds they
draw and the reasons behind it. Our CD's and clips are from
live shows. The tracks have a typical sound, and typical
mistakes. We did not go to a studio and make multiple takes,
or use pitch correctors in order to get the perfect sound
or eliminate mistakes, because that is not what you will
see live. We want you to feel that what you hear and pay
to see, will be exactly what you get. I would NEVER recommend
that you book a band without seeing them in person. 99.9%
of the people who has seen us live, have booked Hit N Run
and been extremely happy.
We
look forward to working together with you on an upcoming
date. You can call us at 656-1522, or email us through the
website www.hitnrun.net
or at markjvalentino@yahoo.com.
Sincerely,
Mark Valentino
Hit N Run