Uncategorized – Dan Tappan Music

Spring (Dirty Snow)

Dan — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:12:30 +0000

This is part of a project to make demo recordings/videos of more of the songs I’ve written

Open Mike Feature Set – June 8, 2025

Dan — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:22:20 +0000

On June 8, 2025 I played an approximately 1/2 hour Feature set at John Ferullo‘s “PCA Open Mike“, at the Parish Center the Arts in Westford MA

Songs I played:
Garden in the Grass
Sunday Morning
Penelope
A Little More Time
The Wind That Shapes the Stone
Home (In Ohio)
Nothing Endures But The Sea
Ain’t No Cure for Worry (encore)

8 Song Set (PCA Open Mike)

Dan — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:23:03 +0000

On February 12, I was the feature performer at the PCA Open Mike in Westford MA (every 2nd and 4th Sunday, hosted by John Ferullo) and played a 1/2 hour set consisting of 8 songs:

The video is available on YouTube

Club Passim Labor Day Campfire Festival

Dan — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 13:56:28 +0000

Club Passim Labor Day Campfire Festival – September 2022

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:

Club Passim Labor Day Campfire Festival

As part of the round I debuted a new song, on the banjo: Guinea Raise a Ruckus

The Thrill of Being Covered

Dan — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 01:29:54 +0000

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

New Song: Let’s Pretend

Dan — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:18:12 +0000

This was written from the prompt “Let’s Pretend”, for the songwriting group that Peter Mulvey is running on his Patreon page.

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New Song: We’ll Be On Zoom For Christmas

Dan — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 23:48:19 +0000

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)

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New Song: Penny In The Well (Dig Deep)

Dan — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:23:44 +0000

This was written for a song-writers-in-the-round, based on a prompt chosen by the previous month’s audience: “Penny In The Well”

Lyrics

New Song: Karma

Dan — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:18:50 +0000

This was written based on a prompt “Find a phrase from the Presidential debates”

Lyrics

New Song: Claire

Dan — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 03:09:48 +0000

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!”.

Lyrics