About Dan Bern
Dan Bern is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, novelist, and painter. His music has been compared to that of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Ochs and Elvis Costello.
He is a prolific composer, having written over one thousand songs. He wrote the novel Quitting Science under the pen name Cunliffe Merriwether and wrote the preface under his own name.
Bern describes his music as "ndefinable by genre, crossing over and through folk, rock, singer-songwriter, and kids music" with sardonic, literary lyrics. He has toured with Ani DiFranco, The Who, and Roger Daltrey.
Dan Bern was born in Mount Vernon, Iowa. He is of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry ; on a trip to Lithuania, he learned Bernstein was his family's name before immigration to the United States.
Bern learned to play cello at age six, and the guitar at 14 or 16, after he heard his first Bob Dylan songs.
After college, he played seven open mics a week in Chicago and started to be invited to Chicago folk clubs such as The Earl of Old Town, Holstein's and The No Exit.
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