Storyteller/singer-songwriter, Dawn is a 5th generation Taney County Ozarker who grew up amid lots of mountain music, arts, storytelling, beautiful hills and rivers. She taught herself to play guitar at 13. At a family gathering at about that age, after she had finished singing and was taking a break, her mother pulled her aside and asked, "Don't you know anything besides death and dying music?" She's proud to play Americana music, which is full of "death and dyin," an integral part of the human condition.
She's been described as: "Part Patty Griffin... part Todd Snider...part Linda Ronstadt...ALL honest, soulful lyrics combining Americana, alt-Country, Blues, and Folk musical styles while exploring life as a progressive hillbilly girl living in the deep south."
These days her day job is as a professor of theatre. She's currently touring three original solo shows: a companion piece to The Vicious Hillbilly CD, The Vicious Hillbilly or Dating in the Deep South; a companion to CD Hillbillyland, Granny's FixIt: An Ozark Guide to Healing the Heart and Soul; and Corn Under Canvas: An Evening with a Tent Show Actress. She founded and operated the last traveling Toby tent show in the country and researches and publishes about that and tent theatre.
She's been described as: "Part Patty Griffin... part Todd Snider...part Linda Ronstadt...ALL honest, soulful lyrics combining Americana, alt-Country, Blues, and Folk musical styles while exploring life as a progressive hillbilly girl living in the deep south."
These days her day job is as a professor of theatre. She's currently touring three original solo shows: a companion piece to The Vicious Hillbilly CD, The Vicious Hillbilly or Dating in the Deep South; a companion to CD Hillbillyland, Granny's FixIt: An Ozark Guide to Healing the Heart and Soul; and Corn Under Canvas: An Evening with a Tent Show Actress. She founded and operated the last traveling Toby tent show in the country and researches and publishes about that and tent theatre.
Link to Dawn's Academic Website: HERE