Dan Tappan – Songs and Music, Old and New
On Labor Day I was honored to be invited to play in a songwriters-in-the-round as part of Club Passim‘s semi-annual Campfire Festival. The rest of the round was Audrey Bussanich, Kelly Flatley, and Tom Smith.
The set was live-streamed, and the video is here:
As part of the round I debuted a new song, on the banjo: Guinea Raise a Ruckus
Monday, July 19, was the nineteenth anniversary of the loss of the great songwriter Dave Carter (August 13, 1952 – July 19, 2002).
On July 20, I played a two song tribute to Dave at the Club Passim Virtual Open Mic, consisting of:
Last Sunday, June 20, I experienced the high point, so far, of my “career” as a songwriter when Laurie MacAllister, of the band Red Molly, covered my song “Nothing Endures But The Sea“, during her set at Club Passim
This was written from the prompt “Let’s Pretend”, for the songwriting group that Peter Mulvey is running on his Patreon page.
I wrote the first draft of this song as a joke, never intending to perform it. But, when I was doing my grocery shopping last week they were already playing Christmas songs. So that inspired me to finish the song. I did wait until after Thanksgiving to record it
Lyrics (a few edits since the recording)
ZoomForChristmasThis was written for a song-writers-in-the-round, based on a prompt chosen by the previous month’s audience: “Penny In The Well”
This was written for a songwriters-in-the-round, at the Serendipity Cafe in Maynard MA, December 11, 2019. One of the rounds had to be a new song, written for the occasion, based on a prompt selected by the previous month’s audience. This month the prompt was “Claire is leaving!”.
I put together a couple of autumn related songs: my own song “Only Autumn Knows” and the standard “Autumn Leaves“, and tried it out at the PCA Open Mike in Westford on October 27.
Here’s the latest song I’ve been working on, I played it out at the PCA Open Mike in Westford on September 8.