Daniel Kahn

Styles: Yiddish Songs / Klezmer / Eastern European

voice, accordion, piano, guitar

A Detroit area native, Daniel 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.

In fall of 2005, Kahn formed “The Painted Bird." Named for the infamous book by Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird concocts a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk. The band features a rotating roster of some of Berlin and New Yorks best young Klezmer and Balkan players

He continues to tour Europe and the US intermittently, still taking on theatre and music projects as they come. In October he performed Tom Waits' songs for a Milwaukee theatre production of "Woyzeck." As Buechner said, a man's soul is like the abyss. You can get dizzy if you look in too deep.

www.paintedbird.net