Dan Schwartz

Dan Schwartz is an acclaimed acoustic guitarist with a degree in American Finger-Style Guitar Performance from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Dan has written and released eight CDs including the newly released debut recording from New Roots Duo, Roots Run Deep, which features Dan on acoustic lap-steel and Ben Woolman on acoustic baritone guitar. His work as a producer and sideman has grown to over 20 recordings. He has been featured on several acoustic guitar compilations including the Internationally released Narada compilations: Masters of Acoustic Guitar, and Guitar Fingerstyle 2. As a part of the Milwaukee Foundation for Guitar Studies, and Stropes Editions, Ltd., Dan is at the forefront of developments in the transcription, notation and editing of finger-style guitar music. This work has been published in Guitar Player, Acoustic Guitar, Fingerstyle Guitar and the Italian guitar magazine Chitarre.