Music & Films

13th April 2020

Beatles’ Let It Be as dulcimer-yangqin duet

recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic – cover of Beatles Let It Be popular song played on my Doug Berch mountain dulcimer in Ionian tuning EBB (DAA but in key of E) with remote accompaniment by on yangqin by my friend in Hong Kong Yanki Ma Sze Yan – she is an excellent musician and her playing here is most sympathetic to the song

17th December 2019

Abba’s I Have A Dream film+TAB

ABBA’s I Have A Dream arranged and performed on my Doug Berch mountain dulcimer in Ionian EBB tuning (DAA but in key of E) using the analog delay on Boss DD-500 FX unit

17th December 2019

Twix Moon & Lea film+TAB

an original contemporary mountain dulcimer duet, again on a nature theme imagine rolling countryside under light from a full moon

25th October 2019

The Dipper film+TAB

another original dulcimer composition by Dan Evans inspired by nature

17th September 2019

The Price Of Love

prelude: Awakening and song of unrequited love The Price Of Love

17th September 2019

Fast Train To Istanbul film

a new guitar instrumental, another train ‘song’ for my 3rd piece of the recording session with Auden Guitars at their Higham Ferrers showroom

26th February 2019

Farewell, Farewell film

a dulcimer arrangement of Richard Thompson’s haunting folk song Farewell Farewell, beautifully sung by Rebecca Hallworth – the melody and introduction are from the traditional English folk song Willie O Winsbury, to which Richard Thompson added his lyrics

26th February 2019

with David Schnaufer film+TAB (The Spider’s Dance)

I had the privilege of meeting the late, great David Schnaufer at two festivals in Kentucky in 2000, thanks to Nancy Johnson Barker for setting up my first Kentucky tour

26th February 2019

Bullet Train at KMW film

the first live performance of Dan’s adventurous minimalist solo dulcimer composition Bullet Train at Bardstown Baptist Church, Kentucky as part of the 2014 Kentucky Music Week festival (KMW)

7th February 2019

Amazing Grace film

this short film of Amazing Grace music shows photographs by Dan Evans of Olney in Buckinghamshire, England, near Milton Keynes – Olney is the home of Amazing Grace, the words for which were written by John Newton – Newton and Cowper collectively wrote the Olney Hymns, of which Amazing Grace is perhaps the best known

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