Press Info

www.DanLaVoie.com

http://www.xs4all.nl/~guitars/determination.html

Influences

Too many to list....

Bio

Dan LaVoie has been obsessed with playing guitar for almost as long as he has been alive. At age 15, having surpassed 4 teachers in 4 years, Dan's maniacal approach led him to begin teaching the instrument to others. About that time, Dan began writing and performing his own material in coffeehouses and small folk venues. He also began a quest to seek out very possible source of inspiration known to the folk guitar world. Dan credits Richie Havens, Michael Hedges, Harry Chapin, Will Ackerman, Vance Gilbert, Vinx, George Winston, Michael Manring and Jim Croce for their subtleties of song and his main source of inspiration. It was the late innovative guitarist Michael Hedges who sent Dan on his mission to bring back from obscurity, the long neglected harp guitar. Harp Guitar in tow, Dan LaVoie set off to not only demonstrate the amazing possibilities of sounds he could produce with this instrument, but to conquer the mainstream of singer/songwriter audiences. This he has been successfully doing for the last 3 years.