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DANE TERRY
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MUSIC
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PERFORMANCES
Dreamboy is on tour with Weclome to Night Vale all of 2019!!
US and Canada!
Cities include: New Haven, Montreal, Buffalo, Detroit, Champaign-Urbana, Bloomington, Columbus OH, Charlottesville, Asheville, Athens GA, Santa fe, Denver, Boise, SLC, LA, Sacramento, Eugene, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.
Dane Terry at
The Wexner Center
Fri Nov 22
2019
Columbus OH
PHOTOS
VIDEOS
PRESS/QUOTES
"Dane Terry is the millennial Cole Porter. He's got the hooks of Elton John, the jokes of Tom Waits and the heart of Leonard Cohen."
- John Cameron Mitchell, creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
"outrageously talented"
-TIMEOUT NEW YORK
"...this guy is fucking incredible, as a songwriter, a lyricist, and a multi-instrumentalist. He could be the next Elton John, the next Mark Eitzel, the next Randy Newman, and he has the potential to best all three."
-Doug Mosurock, STILL SINGLE
"...gifted with such a voice, a weird mix of Antony and Woody Guthrie, somehow both world-weary and bleary-eyed."
-Shane Barnes, FLAVORWIRE
"...a natural-born storyteller, a wizard whose power to delight, crack up, and terrify an audience comes from the traditions of the uniquely American world he brings so vividly to life."
-Drew Harper, GAYLETTER
INFO
A Brief History
I am a storyteller, composer, pianist and singer from Ohio now anchored in New York City. I have been playing piano for 22 years and am completely self-taught. At first I played exclusively boogie-woogie for 6 hours a day in my underwear, but I later branched out into many other styles including late romantic and 20th century classical, latin, folk, jazz, pop and pants. I learned by ear and gradually absorbed the characteristics of certain styles and genres and incorporated them into my increasingly kaleidoscopic improvisations. I started writing songs in 2007 and performed my first set in August of 2008 at The Bean Holler Music Festival on a "farm" outside of Columbus, Ohio. I had a penchant for stage banter from the beginning and it soon became a staple of my live sets. People started suggesting that maybe what I did was theater and after a few eureka moments (it takes a few when you're stubborn) I packed up and moved to New York City.
These days I make music and stories in many media.
I make plans for dark rooms in the future.
CV
THEATER:
Bird in the House - premiered at La MaMa (NYC) in 2015 and went on to be in Under The Radar at The Public Theater in 2016 and subsequently toured.
Jupiter's Lifeless Moons - premiered at PSNY for COIL 2018
PODCASTS:
Dreamboy - Co-created with Ellie Heyman. Distributed by Night Vale Presents.
ALBUMS:
The Wild of Town - 2017
Color Movies - 2015
Something for the Ladies - 2015
7 Songs - 2011
News
DREAMBOY soundtrack vol 1 is out now at daneterry.bandcamp.com
DREAMBOY on tour with Welcome To Night Vale! - Dates in US and Canada throughout 2019.
Lots of fun projects in the works...a musical called Grey Lagoon, a gospel theatrical song cycle called Skyfire, and a few I cant talk bout just yet...