Dan Tappan – Songs and Music, Old and New
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:
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.
A seasonal song. I wrote this at the tail end of the winter of 2015 (the winter that the Boston area got 108 inches of snow). However, it’s relevant to any winter with snow, so I like to pull it out around February/March. This is a video of a performance at the Club Passim Open Mic on March 9, 2017.
https://youtu.be/2_G2T9KG8eE&w=512
Over President’s Day weekend I attended the 2017 WUMB Winter Acoustic Music Weekend, and had the pleasure of having Jackie Damsky accompany me on violin on one of my songs (Abraham).
https://youtu.be/iFGhiovJigg&w=512
On January 22, 2017 I was the featured performer (1/2 hour set) at the PCA Open Mike in Westford MA.
The setlist was:
Video of the full feature:
https://youtu.be/hU4Fh4bEX3I&w=512
On December 22, 2016, Club Passim put on a “12 Hour Open Mic” as part of their year-end fundraising effort. I performed a four song set, consisting of: