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About Me

Blending classical, bluegrass, progressive rock, jazz, and folk may be difficult, even hazardous, but singer-songwriter and guitarist Dan Costello is up to the challenge. His performance experience ranges from hard rock bands to jazz ensembles to medieval instrumental troupes. He earned a Bachelors of Music degree in classical guitar in 2001 and works both in and out of the scholastic realm as a performer, accompanist, editor, composer, arranger, lyricist, teacher, and manager. Costello has shared the stage with Steve Miller, Third Eye Blind, Darius Rucker, Robert Earl Keen, Chris Botti and other excellent national and local talent.
Recently Dan performed as a guitarist for the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games, and was featured as a soloist on local access TV Channel 11's Boise City Limits and on the radio both as a performer and as host for KBSU's Music from Stanley . He also serves on the faculty at Boise State University's Department of Music. A myriad of other musical endeavors make for an eye-popping 250-shows-per-year performance schedule. Costello is an outspoken advocate of local grassroots music...

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Member Since: 14/11/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/godango
Band Members: Since I'm using this page primarily as my solo page, I'm the band. Dan. Me. I'm it.
My main instruments are my voice and guitar, but I also play harmonica, banjo, mandolin, bass, and hand percussion.

I cobble a band together now and then, calling it the Truck Stop Orchestra , and it is my great fortune that many other fantastic musicians have shared the stage with me in this get-up.
I also play some shows with the following:
Spindlebomb
Kelly Lynae Robinson
Mike Quinn

I was in a band called Stella (RIP) for a long time, which I miss for many reasons and think I'm supposed to NOT miss for others (even though that still doesn't quite make sense).
Anyway, the band consisted of two other very dear friends:
Rob Hill (bass, including fretless and fretted electric bass guitar and electric upright bass, vocals when he's had enough beers, and occasional mandolin)
and Scott Lindbloom (drums, percussion, vocals, 6- and 12-string acoustic guitar, PBRs)
And a few past members, including:
JB Allen (where's that boy's Myspace page these days?)
Gadrie "Gator" Edmunds
Vincent Miresse
Stella is dead; long live Stella!
Influences: All my teachers, and all my students.
All those I listen to, and all those that listen to me.
Those who I call friends, and those who call me the same.
and this bizarre, wonderful ever-changing world in which we live.
Sounds Like: ...(long awkward pause) Uh... you tell me. I've tried and tried and can't really find good comparisons anywhere.
...I love to sing. That's why I'm doing this, really.
...I can't make up my mind what style I wanna play tonight. My guitar work is a schizo-sonic mix of classical, bluegrass banjo, funk, grunge, and jazz.
...I refuse to settle for the easy score with a crowd. I love the spontaneous combustion of improvising and surprising people, trying to get people to like something they've never heard before.
Record Label: Fromage Records, Right Ear Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Box of lemons, pt. 3

OK, so the reason for the title...We've really been handed a box of lemons here. And if there's one thing I know about lemons... it's that they make some damn fine lemonade.So the idea that recently s...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:32:00 GMT

Box of lemons Pt. 2

Ok, so as I was saying...So we were all excited for the next couple shows. Friday, after lounging around Jen and Derek's wonderful home for most of the morning, we finally get some momentum to do some...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:34:00 GMT

Box of lemons...

First... I've been neglecting myspace a bit for a few reasons. My laptop was stolen (more later), which makes any sort of web activity a pain, since my only other computer is an iMac from 1999, and my...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:20:00 GMT

Ye Olde "Influences" Text

I've been messin' with stuff on the main page lately, and thought I'd clean things up a bit, aspire to a more aerodynamic aesthetic, drop a few pounds, optimize the optical, however you wanna think of...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:58:00 GMT

New live music venue: Lush!

Lush is a relatively new kid on the Boise block, arriving some time last year in the space that Square occupied for a couple years (760 W. Main St.), right next to the Pita Pit. They just started havi...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:23:00 GMT

link to recorded webcast video

Not much time for details here, gotta get to the next show, but wanted to post this link to the video from last night. No idea if this will work or not-- we had all sorts of interesting challenges wit...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:28:00 GMT

Bend to Sac’to

Thursday, 11:50PMSo I got up really early to get on the road... and Hwy. 97 south was still iced over. So I decided to wait until noon and give it time to thaw out. I’m so glad I did... About 60...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:50:00 GMT

On the road again... v.2008

11:50pmMy good friend Mindi and her wonderful husband Mike are my hosts tonight, as I lounge in their living room gathering thoughts and a cozy down blanket around me. A bright, beautiful sunset welco...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:49:00 GMT

NEED YOUR INPUT!! Please help me decide...

OKAY, y'all, I have a task for you. Please leave a response below and let me know what you think.Here's the deal: This week, I'm playing four nights at Grainey's. That's right, FOUR NIGHTS!! I'm lovin...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:03:00 GMT

Good news (mostly)

Good news from the doc-- the MRI results are in, and are completely clear. That means no tumors, and no weird blood vessel issues, either of which could cause serious damage to the brain.Now the other...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:09:00 GMT