DANIEL KAHN
videos:
Children in the Woods, by Daniel Kahn
performed by Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
I Shall be Released (in Yiddish) by Bob Dylan
translated and performed by Daniel Kahn
performed by Daniel Kahn and Jake Shulman-Ment
“Dan Kahn brings a powerful blend of intelligence and romance to his music.”
A Detroit area native, Daniel Kahn attended the University of Michigan where he studied acting, directing, playwriting and poetry, winning the University’s most prestigious writing award, the Hopwood, three times, and publishing Daylight Savings, a collection of his poems, with Ornithology Press. After finishing his studies he lived, played music, recorded, acted, directed plays and composed theatre music in New Orleans, Detroit, New York and Ann Arbor. He moved to Berlin in 2005 and founded his band The Painted Bird, which went on to tour the world and win several awards with their 5 albums – They released the albums through German world music label Oriente Musik. Their music is described as “a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk.”
Theatre Gigante loves Dan’s musical poetry, and would love to work with him again, but he’s so damned booked up … someday soon! …we, at Gigante, never give up!
Gigante productions:
Woyzeck (2006)
for more: https://www.paintedbird.de
