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    "I get to tour in Europe and I can't get sued for malpractice" are the reasons former psychologist Dan Hart gives for abandoning the 50-minute hour for the life of a singer/songwriter. Now based on the east coast, Dan has been performing his unique mix of folk, rock and comedy at clubs across the U.S. and Europe for 20 years.  Dan's tours have taken him to 30 states and 8 European countries.
    Dan was born in Chicago and grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a broadcaster and a writer.  Since leaving L.A. he has lived in almost every region of the U.S.; his lyrics combine Midwestern honesty, West Coast humor and East Coast cynicism.
    Hart applies these qualities to topics such as the environment, mass media, psychotherapy, and problems of everyday living in a confusing technological world. Hart's newest CD The Life of Dan features snappy, electric-folk arrangements and an assortment of characters including alienated kindergartners, retro fashion bugs, vegan cowboys; and yes, folkies and singer-songwriters. The CD put yet another of Dan's songs on "Funny Five" of the nationally-syndicated Doctor Demento radio program (to which Hart has been a regular contributor for 20 years) and appears on the Doctor's Basement Tapes vol. 10. Life of Dan also made the Folk-DJ top 100 in its first month.  The CD landed him an interview on National Public Radio's Here and Now program. Dirty Linen magazine said of  the CD: "in the best tradition of Tom Lehrer and Dr. Demento, [Hart] skewers anything and everything within choking distance."
    Life of Dan and Hart's previous CD Apocalypse Now and Then have received airplay on radio stations across the U.S., and two songs have been featured on National Public Radio's Car Talk program. Doctor Demento called his songs "very timely...quite amusing." His songs have received recognition in national songwriting competitions, including the Kerrville Festival's New Folk series. He has also been featured on New York's Fast Folk musical magazine.
   Hart's CDs are available for purchase at Dan's performances, by mail order, on the web at cdbaby.com, amazon.com, and at selected stores.  For further information about Dan Hart's performances and recordings, email StoneBoat@earthlink.net or visit him on the web at www.danhart.net.
 
 

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(partial) list of Dan Hart's previous appearances:

Clubs & Festivals:

Boston Folk Festival, MA
Godfrey Daniels, Bethlehem, PA
Bethlehem Musikfest, PA
The Cherry Tree, Philadephia, PA
Club Passim, Cambridge, MA
The Nameless Coffeehouse, Cambridge, MA
Two-Way Street Coffeehouse, Downers Grove, IL
New Folk Collective, St. Paul, MN
Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, TN
Canal Street Tavern, Dayton, OH
Speakeasy, New York, NY
People's Voice Cafe, New York, NY
Troubador Coffeehouse, Churchville, PA
Folk Factory, Philadelphia, PA
Circlewood Coffeehouse, Cherry Hill, NJ
Hurdy Gurdy, Paramus, NJ
333 Coffeehouse, Annapolis, MD
Mine Streeet Coffeehouse, New Brunswick, NJ
No Exit, Chicago, IL
Johnny D's, Somerville, MA
The Bull Run, Shirley, MA
The Left Bank, Blue Hill, ME
Philadelphia Folksong Society, Philadelphia, PA
Minstrel Coffeehouse, Basking Ridge, NJ
Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson, WI

...and in the following countries:
Belgium, England, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Italy
 

Colleges & Universities:

Allegheny College, Meadeville, PA
Beaver College, Glenside, PA
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
Drew University, Madison, NJ
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Eastern Montana College, Billings, MT
Fox Valley Technical College, Oshkosh, WI
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA
Lakeshore Technical Institute, Cleveland, WI
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
Menlo College, Atherton, CA
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Northcentral Technical College, Wausau, WI
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Green Bay, WI
Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
Ripon College, Ripon, WI
St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY
St. Norbert College, DePere, WI
Simpson College, Indianola, IA
Thiel College, Greenville, PA
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
University of Montana, Missoula, MT
University of California, Berkeley, CA
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Western Montana College, Dillon, MT
Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH

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Dan has appeared with:

Vance Gilbert, Tom Chapin, Garnet Rogers, John Fahey, Steve Forbert, Bill Morrissey, John Gorka, Robin & Linda Williams, Michael Smith, Steve Gillette, Sally Rogers, Bryan Bowers, Kim & Reggie Harris, Willy Porter, Faron Young, Tony Bird, Lui Collins, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Fred Small, Erica Wheeler, Bob Franke, Beth Wood

Live radio appearances:

"Here and Now", National Public Radio
"Acoustic Images" and "Live at Noon", WUMB, Boston
"The Coffeehouse," WERS, Boston
"Folk Music with Gene Shay," WHYY, Philadelphia
"Homegrown," WXPN, Philadelphia
"Folk Friday," WFDU, Madison, NJ
"City Folk," WFUV, Bronx, NY
"Kentucky Folk Radio," WNKU, Highland Hts, KY
"Forever Wild," WORT, Madison, WI
"Simply Folk," Wisconsin Public Radio
"Timmy the Hippie," WCSB, Cleveland, WI
"Catfish John," KUFM, Missoula, MT
"It's For You," WERU, Blue Hill, ME
"That's Life," WMSX, Brockton, MA
"Acoustic Eclectic," WDIY, Bethlehem, PA
"Homemade Music," WRSU, Rutgers University, NJ
Universitetsradioen, Copenhagen, Denmark
BBC Radio Stoke, Staffordshire, England
Radio Scorpio, Brussels, Belgium
Country Music Radio (CMR), Sweden


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Email Dan Hart at stoneboat@earthlink.net