Europe

Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland Dan has been singing, playing and writing music since an early age. He started his career as singer and songwriter in critically acclaimed Belfast band Watercress and penned many of their most popular songs including “Candlemaker”, which reached number 1 in the Irish indie charts and “Stars Shine On”, which also topped the same chart. He has played with Watercress, solo and with Joy Zipper all across the globe supporting bands such as, Air, The Levellers, The Darkness, Duran Duran, Ian Dury and Turin Brakes to name but a few.

Having gained considerable recognition as a singer and songwriter in recent years. Dan has supported Seth Lakeman twice on sell out tours of Britain. In the summers of 2006, 2007 and 2008 he played at festivals in the UK including the Beautiful Days Festival, Glastonbury Festival and The Big session Festival plus many solo gigs around England, Ireland, America, Germany and Denmark. In the latter part of 2006 saw the release of “The Beach E.P.” In 2007 Dan released the album “Yearning a Living” which has already sold considerably in The U.K. and U.S. Most recently Sonovagun released a live album “Live In NYC” in the summer of 2008 supported and played onstage with Oysterband for the last year in 2008 and is due to support them on their forthcoming 30th Anniversary tour of Germany, Austria and the U.K. in November.

He is one of the only artists that have performed with both The Levellers and Oysterband, arguably the finest folk rock acts in Europe.

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Dan Donnelly