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Artist
Daniel Kahn
12+ albums
jewishklezmeryiddishfolkamerican
about
A Detroit area native, Daniel attended the University of Michigan where he studied acting, directing, playwriting and poetry, winning the University’s most prestigious writing award, the Hopwood, three times and publishing Daylight Savings, a collection of his poems, with Ornithology Press. In 2001, he settled down from travelling in New Orleans to focus on music and theatre. There he did everything from late night piano lounge lizard gigs to bluegrass jams, leading punk circus parades to directing, producing, acting and composing music for a production of Brecht’s Man Is Man at the ARK Theatre (One of “the best productions of the Year”-Times-Picayune). Even did a little union organizing in the deep south. In 2003, he produced the acclaimed New Orleans elegy album "River Mouth" with Mike West. After leaving New Orleans he lived, played music, recorded, acted, directed plays and composed theatre music in Detroit, New York, Ann Arbor and northern Michigan (where he his a part of the Earthwork Music Collective), winning awards and nominations for his original theatre scores (including an OPIE for 2004's "The Dybbuk" at the Jewish Ensemble Theater). His experimental folk rock Detroit CD "Uprooted Oak" was released in 2005. Daniel moved to Berlin in summer of that year. He joined a local dance band as well as Berlin’s most notorious emigrantski raggamuffin klezmerton band Rotfront and has, within a very short space of time, become an integral part of the city’s folk and kle
