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Dan Quinn

About Me

Lives in Brighton - plays Hohner melodeons - pokerwork two-rows and various one-row-four-stops - founder member of seminal English dance bands Flowers and Frolics and Gas Mark 5 - currently in duo with Will Duke playing and singing English traditional music and in Duck Soup (concert band and dance band) with Adam Bushell and Ian Kearey - English traditional again plus various oddities played on melodeons, marimba, dobro plus bits of piano, harmonica, triangle, mandolins and phono fiddle - anyone out there interested?
HOT OFF THE PRESS!!
THE WATCH: New dance band featuring myself on melodeons, Rob Murch (of The Dartmoor Pixie Band and Moor Music) on banjo and Gareth Kiddier (late of The Bismarcks) on piano. Open for bookings.
EVEN HOTTER OFF THE PRESS!!
THE MIGHTY QUINNS: New duo featuring me and my son, Matt Quinn, on fiddle, mandolin, mandocello and mandolin banjo. Desperate for work!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/01/2007
Band Website: www.danquinn.co.uk
Influences: Other melodeonists: Oscar Woods, Tufty Swift, Rod Stradling, Jim Bainbridge, John Kirkpatrick, Simon Ritchie, Martin Ellison, Alfred Monmarquette, John J. Kimmell, Katie Howson.
Other instrumentalists: Will Atkinson, Gabriele L'Abbe, Will Duke.
Singers: Freddy MacKay, Bob Davenport, Wiggy Smith, Norma Waterson, Shirley Collins.
Other indispensibles: Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Tom Waits, The Beatles, The Rakes (Messrs Hall, Plunkett and Gross, not the other lot), Brass Monkey, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, The Tiger Lilies.
I love movies - nearly all of them! My top three movies (in the spirit of David Thomson's "Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema") are: Les Enfants du Paradis, Sunrise and The Crimson Pirate. Ask me again tomorrow.
Sounds Like: me
Record Label: Hebe Music
Type of Label: Indie

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