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Great venue in a great neighbourhood in a great city. This was the biggest headline show I’ve ever had in NYC. I hit the merch table afterward and heard stories of folks flying in from North Carolina, Michigan, Arizona - just wild. Means a lot to me that folks would go to all…
Want to “Ask Me Anything”? Add your question in the AMA section HERE. Dear Sera, Thanks for writing. Not to minimize that we live in a complicated era with some existential comeuppances on the horizon… but I do think that these chilling moments of quiet terror have maybe been a…
Available NOW! Listen or view merch bundles HERE 571 emails. 100+ hours on the phone and thousands of text messages. A mere 3 days spent in-person together over two and a half years of long-distance work. Such a displaced recording process might make anyone question the concept…
Hello love, I’ve known Felix Cartal for a few years. He’s a multi-platinum selling artist, but he’s also a genius remixer. There’s always a sense of whimsy in his work, and he doesn’t take himself too seriously, which I appreciate. Like, for instance, his piano house anthem remix…

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WATCH: 03.28.20 | ZOOM | #Quarantunes Vol. 2
GUITAR TUTORIAL - "Cold In The Summer"
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This was the first show of the “An Evening with Dan Mangan” series. Small rooms. Me and a guitar. No setlist - just taking requests and telling stories…
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Want to “Ask Me Anything”? Add your question in the AMA section HERE. Dear Niki, Thanks for being there. I love Glasgow. I love so many places in…
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Hello love, USA loves “initialism”. NYC. DC. LA. I learned that these are not acronyms. Acronyms are initials that can be said as a new word (like…
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Some time last year, I discovered Leith Ross on TikTok, thanks to a recommendation from Said The Whale’s Tyler Bancroft. At the time, I thought TikTok…
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Want to “Ask Me Anything”? Add your question in the AMA section HERE. Dear Tessa, I’m particularly proud of that line. Years ago, I was in a cab on my…
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Sorry to hit ya twice with this. I’m such an eBay rookie - I thought there’d be a landing page before the auction went live but there was not. Link…
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Guitar auction for Abortion Funds!Watch now (2 min) | I’m auctioning my Taylor 310-KCE acoustic guitar (made in California, 2000). This was my first "real" guitar. Every song from…
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