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Profile GeneratorBe prepared to tap your feet or dance in the aisle. Dan Livingstone is a musician who bridges the worlds of the Delta blues, swing, and Cajun folk traditions to create an expressive music that delights his audiences. Whether playing Dobro or acoustic guitar, this exceptional fingerstylist and singer takes the earliest themes of love, humour, loss and redemption and makes you believe the stories.Born and raised on the west coast of Canada, Livingstone now makes his home in Montréal where he regularly plays the clubs around that city. Playing alone, or with his band, the Dan Livingstone Trio, he is well known to festival audiences all over Québec; in June, he played the pre-show for BB King at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and in October, the Norand Blues Festival. In the fall of 2004 (and again in 2007), he toured Europe, wowing audiences in clubs and concert halls of Norway, Germany and France. His appearances and concerts across Canada over the last decade have included festivals such as Rimouski en Blues, Carleton International Blues festival, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, the Pan Am Games (1999), Mt-Tremblant International Blues Festival and the 16th Islands Folk Festival on Vancouver Island where audiences ranked him as one of the top performers of the weekend.Livingstone is inspired by the magic of the Piedmont, Delta and Texas blues traditions. One of his aims as a musician is to immerse his audience in the music of Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Fred McDowell, and Robert Johnson. But it is not his intention to simply play these tunes from a bygone era: through the introduction of swing, West African and other rhythms, Livingstone recreates the music for a modern audience’s ears and imagination. And Livingstone’s originals – very popular with his fans – are a thoughtful mix of these influences and his own lyrical style. Dan's work has also been featured in a variety of media such as radio, television and cinema.Livingstone’s debut CD was released in June 2000 and is entitled, Dan Livingstone.
