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HAM concert East Yorkshire

Originally hailing from Teesside, but having performed mostly in the USA in recent years, this is Dan’s first concert in the north East of England for some time.

For this solo concert Dan will present folk songs and his original nature-themed compositions on dulcimer & guitar.

Expect quality musicanship, relaxed presentation and a little light humour.

dulcimer set at E-Scape festival

Dan will be performing a dulcimer at this international electronic music festival in Suffolk on the main stage early afternoon, around 1pm

Dan’s set will include original instrumentals and songs on acoustic and electric dulcimers

details on the poster

 

 

York House concert with Rebecca & Andy

enjoy the unique sound of the dulcimer, superbly performed by this country’s leading player, Dan Evans

English actress Rebecca Hallworth will take lead or harmony vocals and international jazzman Andy Crowdy will add string bass or nylon-string guitar – together they present a repertoire of beautiful and moving songs as well as Dan’s stunning, nature-themed instrumentals

don’t miss this first performance of Dan’s trio since 2017

expect quality musicianship, relaxed presentation and a little light humour

both Rebecca and Andy are featured on Dan’s highly acclaimed CD album: Au Vieux Moulin – ‘it’s all incredibly pure and all incredibly beautiful’ – Acoustic magazine

venue: the main hall, York House Centre, London Rd, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes MK11 1JQ – limited parking on-site / car park opposite

times: doors / bar open at 7:30pm for 8pm start

tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/568310

 

The Garden Waltz duet

the Garden Waltz is one of Dan’s nature-themed compositions – imagine having cream teas on the lawn of an English country garden – then, being in England, it rains, then thunders, then rains again, ending on a jazzy chord, symbolising a rainbow from a repentant sky

performed fingerstyle on my old Flyde Goodfellow guitar in Open C tuning (CGCGCE) with good friend and international classical guitarist Martin Vishnick

live at Kathy Brown’s garden ~ III

guitar instrumentals: Plain Sailing (D Evans) interlude & The Garden Waltz (D Evans)

performed on Dan’s Auden Chester cutaway guitar in Open C tuning (CGCGCE) using delay effects from the Boss DD-500 and sampling/looping using the Boss RC-30

The Garden Waltz is one of Dan’s nature-themed compositions – imagine having cream teas on the lawn of an English country garden – then, being in England it rains – you’ll hear thunder, the pitter patter of rain, a downpour, more rain then, at the end, the repentant sky offers a rainbow as an apology

live at Kathy Brown’s Garden ~ II

the guitar instrumental version of the song Which Will (by nick Drake) & (Evans’ own) Chinese Water Garden, about water cascading down small rock pools – is followed by Dan’s own Waves, a guitar instrumental about waves lapping on a lonely shingle beach

both are performed in Kathy Browns’ famous garden in Stevington, Bedfordshire on Dan’s Auden Chester cutaway acoustic guitar in Open C tuning (CGCGCE) using delay effects from the Boss DD-500 and sampled sounds from the Boss RC-30 loop station

Nick Drake (1948 – 1974), was a British singer/songwriter/guitar player, whose fame grew after his death – in the song Which Will, Nick perhaps airs his depression over his music not being more popular, a sentiment shared by many songwriters no doubt

book review: Pluck, David Schnaufer’s biography

‘Pluck – The Extraordinary Life and Times of David Schnaufer’

by Linda Paulus

an informal book review by Dan Evans

first impressions

At over £37 from Amazon UK and with over 500 pages for the main story alone, this paperback represents quite an investment of time and money.  So is it worth it ?

Schnaufer’s story is written in the present tense with an ease that seems to make the pages turn more quickly than usual.  I enjoy reading but I’m often put off by very long stories.  Here however, I found myself on page 300 in seemingly no time, eager to read on and find out what happens next.

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live at Kathy Brown’s garden ~ I

‘Mary’ a new original guitar piece by Dan Evans and his arrangement of Turlough O’ Carolan’s Si Beag Si Mhor, performed live at Kathy Brown’s famous garden in Stevington, Bedfordshire

both performed on Dan’s Auden Chester cutaway guitar in Open C tuning, capo’ed to key of D

‘Mary’ is dedicated to Dan’s wife: Mary Evans

Turlough O’ Carolan (1670 – 1738) was a famous blind Irish harper, considered by many to be Ireland’s national composer ~ many of his tunes are called Planxties, a term that O’ Carolan might have invented, meaning

Si Beag Si Mhor, meaning ‘Small Fairy Mound, Big Fairy Mound’, is one of O’ Carolan’s most popular compositions and might refer to two small hills, possible burial sites, from his birth county of Meath

concert at The Old Bakery Studios, Truro

from Dawn Donald on Facebook:
“Yesterday Fraser and I spent the afternoon in The Studio at The Old Bakehouse, which is literally across the road from us. Fraser spent some time doing a dulcimer workshop.  He is surprisingly good, he takes time to work out what he is doing until he gets the tune he wants from it.
Then in the evening we went to see Dan Evans in Concert, supported by Richard Trethewey.  Dan played the guitar and the Appalachian Dulcimer. He is incredibly talented playing and singing his own and classic compositions. The notes he was getting from the dulcimer were amazing and he finished his set with the most beautiful version of Let it be, showing how versatile an instrument it is.
Richard, played the violin and the cittern and gave us music and songs giving us the history of Cornwall and it’s people.  He is another very talented person who collects stories from the people who lived the history or are ancestors of and runs them into lovely music so they are never forgotten.
We had a fabulous day and evening and thank to Kerensa for organising it.”

 

Great kNight Folk Club with Rebecca

lovely feedback from friends present:

” What a delightful evening and thank you.  We enjoyed all of it very much. “

” I really enjoyed your carefully crafted arrangements and exquisite playing again last night, a musical treat. “

” Thanks for a great evening. “

” I loved that you played multi dulcimers at Tuesdays gig.  Plenty of variety in your set too, really did enjoy! “

 

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