All Ages Show (only 44 tickets, so grab them while you still can since its Fiesta)
Adults $50. Kids $40. Seniors $45
Acoustic Songwriter and Performer Dan King has been keeping crowds entertained around Cape Ann for many years with his quiet charm, soulful vocal delivery, and roots and folk rock acoustic style. His music and cover selections are the perfect compliment to a sunset cruise around gorgeous Gloucester Harbor where Dan has performed countless times on large cruises, schooners, and private events.
Excerpt from Dan King Website:
DAN KING
Dan King is a songwriter and performer born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Gloucester is a fishing city on the rocky shoreline north of Boston called Cape Ann also famous as an inspirational destination for poets, artists, sailors, and musicians.
His first memories of music were his fathers Chet Atkins and Glen Campbell records recording in the far away land of Nashville.
Famous original Berklee College of Music Professor and Jazz Trumpet player Herb Pomeroy encouraged Dan to take music more seriously after hearing Dan play bass and guitar during a high school jazz assembly telling him "you've got something special so don't learn too much".
Dan performed around Cambridge and Western Massachusetts while attending Harvard University and Umass Amherst. Traveling cross country, it was in San Francisco, CA where Dan got his first songwriter Showcase and held his own weekly acoustic pub shows in the Lower Haight district.
Forming The Prolz in the mid 90s, featuring Nelson Bragg ( Brian Wilson, Beach Boys) filling the drum seat with Vincent Briguglio on bass, the direction turned much more experimental and psychadelic with all the latest production tools at their disposal including early versions of Pro Tools. Guitarist Mark Pelosi and drummer Dom Lentini guested as they worked with Cove Studio owner Doug Brown and engineer Dave Henshaw.
The Prolz added guitarist Brian DeFort and drummer Pete Koeplin and for the next two years and played many shows locally, both electric and acoustic, hosting an open jam every Monday at favorite local pub the Rhumb line. Highlights included the Nemo music conference where the Prolz played at Mama Kin Music Club in Boston the same night as the owners Aerosmith for the hottest ticket in town. The single Fell in the Pocket got radio play from Maine to DC but most importantly on Dan's favorite radio station Boston's WBCN.
A second Prolz record was Recorded at Breakwater Estate Studio by David Brown and Produced by Grammy nominee and award winner Tom Hambridge ( Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger) in late 96' and finished in 97'. Titled Instinct it was the finest recording project to date with exceptionally produced gems like Beatles in my Room, Whistle Bye, and the title track Instinct recorded on Twin 24 track 2 inch tape machines through a Neve Console and Sony Nashville automated Sound Board all within an impressive estate with tennis court and private beach.
The next project would be even more focused on Dan's acoustic roots and turned into his first Solo effort. Time Move Over was recorded mostly in the summer of 98' at Room 9 From Outer Space in South Boston by Ducky Carlisle with Tom Hambridge producing again. It was finished in late 99'. The recordings featured many friends Dan had met and worked with over the years, Nate Richardson (John Brown's Body), Tom West (Peter Wolf), Mike Tucker (Arturo Sandoval), Ben Zecker (Soundtrack Production), Benny Benson (Los Sugar Kings), Dan Graziani ( The Adicts), with Hambridge on backing vocals and Prolz era veterans Kopelin, Pelosi, and Briguglio making appearances.
The songs were performed live with L.A musicians Graziani, Doug Forsdick, Bret McConnell, Joe Mora, as Dan King and the Mac. Grapeshot Records picked up Time Move Over in 2000 and released it nationally in March of 2001. King appeared in New York City and Los Angeles ( the indie music awards at the famous Biltmore Hotel where the Oscars were first held) to support the record. Another fond memory from a different time was seeing the CD on the shelves at Tower Records Hollywood, a long way and many bands later from where it all started. Boston Radio played "Never Once" on the WXRV the River which became the local home for the burgeoning alt country scene.
During and after the push for Time Move Over Dan turned to producing and performing with NYC based artist Luke Temple, playing bass guitar in the live band. They made a couple dozen demos and self released a few EPs before Luke got signed to Mill Pond Records on the west coast. They played lot's of great NYC clubs around the upcoming Williamsburg Brooklyn scene including Arlene's Grocery and the Knitting Factory. The trips and gigs in New York City were a much needed diversion into indie rock production and influenced Dan's next album Two Kinds Of Mind. Recorded by indie stalwart Tony Goddess (Papas Fritas, Guster) starting in spring 2001 and released spring 2003 it was the first to feature all of KBMG and friend Russ Lawton(Trey Anastasio). Two Kinds of Mind got radio support for "After the Round".
Around this time Dan started rehearsing with Whoopi Goldberg for a NBC special through friend Jamie Kehoe and they put on shows at his waterfront club Captain Carlos. Whoopi, David Brown, Michael Troy, and Craig Tramack, played a few shows over the years before Whoopi went full time on The View. Highlights include jamming onstage doing Stones and Beatles tunes with Robin Williams and Goldberg for Whoopi's 50th birthday at New York's Cutting Room in 2005. Another fond memory being at Cornell U. in upstate New York at the famous Barton Hall field house where the Grateful Dead's Cornell 77 was recorded. Dan remembers sound checking that day while he listened to that famous room's reverberation coming back at him. Lastly, a big memory was when Whoopi brought Dan backstage to Keith Richard's dressing Room at Boston's Fenway Park where he met Keith, Ron Wood, Bobby Keys, Blondie Chaplin, who were many of Dan's childhood musical heroes.
Solo Recording projects included drummer James Cohen( Ryan Montbleau) and old friend Burke Sampson (Caleb Stine and the Brakemen) which were done in Boston with Dave Minehan (The Neighborhoods, The Replacements ) at Wooly Mammoth studio, and with Andrew Mazzone at High n Dry studio (Mark Sandman, Morphine) in Cambridge, featuring Lawton, Ginandes, and Dana Colley on saxophone (Morphine). More recent Solo efforts outside KBMG with Lawton on Drums include In the Sun and Bathed in Dream Light featuring Sampson and Tucker on Sax. In 2018 Dan recorded his first Solo acoustic collection You're Not Alone featuring KBMG live favorite Closing Time Dear.
Dan also co-wrote and performed in the original performance art piece "Big Top Road" with co-creators artist Jon Sarkin and director Ian McColl (Gloucester Stage, Blackburn Performing Arts). Dan continues to perform with Sarkin for his show The Unchained Brain recently featured at Worcester Art Museum and Boston's HUB fest sponsored by Boston Globe, MIT, and Harvard. Sarkin has provided the artwork for a few releases.
Other successes were achieved with The Bandit Kings (Renee Dupuis, AnnMarie Clark, Joe Cardoza, Dennis Monagle) as a writer, producer, and performer which put Dan's songs on Sirius XM with Meg Griffin's special Having Words with Meg and in rotation, plus a couple fabulous trips for gigs in LA at the famous Mint and Molly Malones.
Always keeping busy Dan plays bass locally in the strictly fun Reggae outfit Glostafarians and the 80's retro band Safety 80s. 2019's big personal highlight was being invited onstage to help sing Meet on the Ledge and conclude Fairport Conventions Cropredy Festival in Oxfordshire, England in front of over 20,000 with many thanks to DM and Caron for making that happen.
Concluding, it is certainly KBMG that has been the main focus for Dan's original material, see above, but forever thankful to all the other projects that help influence, give respite, fun diversion, and all in all help the art move forward. “