TEN STEPS (08.09.23)

“Gorgeous… intriguing” The Guardian

Max ZT and Dan Whitehouse combine their inventive energy to present their debut album using spoken word and virtuoso playing to create pieces with a belief in the healing power of music at its core.

Reflections On The Glass Age (28.04.23)

Stripped-back, acoustic, emotional and vulnerable performances captured live in various studios in England and Denmark. Simple and sparse arrangements for guitar, piano and voice. 

The Glass Age

The way we feel about one another hasn’t changed, but the way we communicate has.

Dan uses his exceptional storytelling to look at how our human experience and ways of connecting have changed through the ‘glass’, the screens, of virtual meetings and communication.

Voices From The Cones

Celebrating 400 years of glassmaking in Stourbridge.

A song cycle created to represent the long history and surrounding community of glass making in Stourbridge.

Songs (by Dan Whitehouse) and narration (by poet/storyteller John Edgar) born from an incredible archive of interviews with glass workers.

Live touring
Join Dan and special guests as he steps out from behind the glass 

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About Dan

Award-winning singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse continues to renew, reinvent and reimagine – touching listeners with his observations and moving them with his sensitivity and impeccable songwriting.

“Wonderful” – BBC 6 Music

“Nothing short of beautiful” ****  – RnR Magazine 

Sitting on the foundations of teenage touring and recording with Naomi and Sonara, Dan’s early career culminated with a Reading Festival appearance in 2003. After going solo, Dan then signed to Reveal Records with whom he released three celebrated albums.

The son of a Wolverhampton community radio pioneer, Dan starting his recording and touring career as a teenager with Naomi before fronting rock band Sonara and playing Reading Festival.  After deciding to go solo Dan then released his first two albums on his own label before signing to the Reveal Records roster alongside Joan As Policewoman and The Little Unsaid. 

Dan’s 2020 release Dreamland/Tomorrow, was described as unveiling a “strikingly new maturity and willingness to push the envelope” (Folk Radio UK), featuring collaborations with John Elliott (The Little Unsaid), Eric Lane (Joan as Police Woman), minimalist composer Richard J. Birkin, and BBC Jazz Award winning Saxophonist Xhosa Cole.  

2022 saw Dan continue to develop and evolve his offering whilst showing how he carefully nurtured his creativity during an imposed stay in Japan from January 2020 to June 2021. Releases included The Glass Age (out 22 July) – a collaboration with Swedish musician Gustaf Ljunggren, which looks at how our human experience and ways of connecting have changed through the ‘glass’ of virtual communication.  Another, his Arts Council funded song-cycle Voices From The Cones draws from the oral history archive of Stourbridge Glassworks. Voices From The Cones – shot into the Folk Charts at #15 and was nominated for ‘Innovative Project 2022’ by FATEA.

In 2023 Dan continues his collaboration with New York hammered dulcimer player Max Z-T. Their debut record  Ten Steps will be out in September and the duo will tour in October. April sees the release  of Reflections On The Glass Age – an acoustic sequel to The Glass Age – presents the same songs stripped-back, in emotional and vulnerable performances captured live in Devon and Copenhagen.

The coming together of community through music has always been important to Dan, and is something he draws upon both in his own work, and as a songwriting mentor and skilled workshop leader. Dan also presents a monthly production on Brum Radio – The Glass Age Show.   

“Subtle and delicate melodies” — The Sunday Times??

“There is, somewhere, an alternate reality, one in which Ed Sheeran is a cult singer-songwriter whose work gets critical acclaim from those in the know but never manages to trouble the charts, but where, the equally deserving Dan Whitehouse basks in universal praise for his brilliantly constructed melodies and insightful, emotionally resonant lyrics and whose albums sell by the truckload across the world.” Mike Davies, Folk Radio UK

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Live Performances

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“A fine songwriter, a unique vocal talent and a talented multi instrumentalist / performer” – MAVERICK

Workshops

Dan runs songwriting workshops and lectures for BIMM, mac Birmingham and for Company of Song as well as offering popular one to one mentoring.

“I believe in the power of creativity and self expression and this fuels all of my work” – Dan Whitehouse