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AWARDS:
2009
Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
1st Place Winner Acoustic
Blues
Competition
2009
Indie International Songwriting Contest
1st Place Winner Folk/Acoustic
2009
Utah State Instrumental Championshps
2nd Place Winner Finger style guitar
2010
Ashland Blues Society's Road to the IBC
1st Place Winner Solo/Duo Category
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Both a singer/songwriter and an acoustic blues
artist, Dana Hubbard
deftly combines the two genres with a warm and engaging personality on
stage, singing, telling stories, and playing both guitar and harmonica
at an impressive
level!
2010 is headed toward another award winning year. In 2009 he was
selected as a finalist in four national songwriter showcase
competitions and two national acoustic blues competitions in which he
garnered two 1st place wins!! He performed as a song competition
finalist at Wildflower Festival in Texas, Mountain Music Festival in
Utah and Tucson Folk Festival in Arizona, and was a finalist select at
the West Virginia Appalachian Blues Competition. His CD, The
Grounds Keepers, was included in the "Best of 2008" new releases list
on 90FM WWSP's Acoustic Revival show.
Born and raised on the Central Coast of California, he attended UC
Santa Cruz only long enough to finish an elective course on country
blues before he hit the road and never looked back. With his acoustic
guitar, he busked the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco. He
eventually put together his own band, The Delta Twisters which he led
for over a decade in the burgeoning Blues scene playing clubs,
juke-joints, biker-bars.
By the time Dana moved on to bigger venues and theatres, the guitar in
hand had become electric and he began sharing the stage with legends
like Albert King, James Cotton and Etta James and opening shows for
artists like Greg Allman, Chris Isaak and Robert Cray. All this
performance experience culminated in his first CD release, "Tummy Lust"
which showcases his impressive guitar skills as well as his songwriting
ability.
Dana returned to the acoustic guitar as his instrument of choice with
the release of his second CD "Livin' Live". What Dana does with the
guitar, using only his hands is amazing to watch and a joy to listen
to. You hear the bass and the back beat rhythm along with the melody
and chords. If you look around for his backup guitar, you won't
find one. This is Dana, performing solo.
On his latest CD "The Grounds Keepers" each track is a single guitar
performance with no overdubs, no re-makes. What you hear is a
singer/songwriter front and center, addressing issues of
environmentalism and social injustice in a voice that sometimes growls,
sometimes he lilts or laughs, but he's always got a little twinkle in
his eye. He has a social activist soul with a bluesman's grin.
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Instrumentation
Dana Hubbard
-guitar,
vocals and harmonica
Discography
LIGHTNIN'S CADILLAC -2012
THE GROUNDS
KEEPERS -2008
LIIVIN' LIVE -2002
TUMMY LUST -1997 |
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