Bluegrass / roots musician, vocalist, composer, and conductor
If you live in the Great State of NYC, be sure to swing by Bar East this Friday to see me play with Ray Mazza and the Gutter Bandits! Excellent original tunes, superlative volume levels!
New York City denizens rise up and get yourselves to Fontana’s on the Lower East Side this Friday night! You’ll hear me play with Ray Mazza and the Gutter Bandits. If you don’t have time to celebrate Valentine’s Day on Valentine’s Day, or you just plumb forgot, what could be more romantic than indie folk-rock?
EDIT: It looked something like this:
The Sparrows, getting it done!
http://www.bard.edu/about/giving/greeting/2012/
Bard College Holiday Video 2012 from Bard College on Vimeo.
In addition to credited Sparrows, major shoutout to Johanna Warren ’11, provider of perfect harmony for Chris Rubeo’s original “Brave.”
Okay, been a while! Upcoming show at High Falls Cafe on Acoustic Thursday, November 3, with collaborator C.B. Smith!
I’ve been working with a friend on a new banjo logo. Ladies and gentlemen, the winged banjo. Art by Sara Lynch.
QUEER NOT COOL will take place SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8th at 10:30pm at THE SECRET THEATRE (44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, Queens). For transportation, take the G, 7, E, or M trains to Court Square or the NR trains to Queensboro Plaza.
This is an extremely cool thing – I’ll be playing with fellow Bard alum Chris Rubeo as we support the web-series The Outs, created by fellow Bard alum Adam Goldman! Bard in the house!
Now you can Facebook RSVP to Friday’s Two Boots Americana Jamboree with Young Lungs, Odetta Hartman, and Dan Whitener. It’s still free and you can just show up, but RSVPing is fun too.
My new album with my dad is available now! This was definitely a family effort, with the watercolor on the album cover–as well as many of the vocal harmonies–provided by my mom. This, of course, just covers two of the four generations–you’ll have to check out the album for the rest of the story.
You can pick it up in CD or digital form at stores like Amazon and iTunes. The album is also for sale through our CDBaby page or directly through me–contact me via my Facebook artist’s page.
Busy time for me, folks – I’ve recently moved to the greater NYC area. Look for upcoming gigs with Blue Plate Special, a New Jersey jazz-bluegrass band I’ve been playing in for a while now. I’m happy to finally be living close enough to play with them more often.
Also on the horizon, I’ll be working this season with C4, the Choral Conductors and Composers Collective (I think I got that in the right order) out of NYC. Look for a concert in November on their website.
Finally, my dad and I got around to recording and releasing a CD together, a project I’m very personally happy about. Mark and Dan Whitener – Under One Roof: Four Generations of American Music will be available online soon, and I’ll have copies at upcoming shows.
That’s all for now, stay tuned!