Dan Plews
Dan Plews
Performer, Aortas coordinator
Dan Plews has sung and played traditional music most of his life, and written songs for half of it.
He’s toured and recorded with Eliza Carthy, Jon Boden, Dansaul and Ian Giles. In addition, he writes and performs solo and with Dansmall, and is a member of the Aortas Ceilidh Band.
Amongst many others, his influences include Martin Carthy, Nic Jones, Paul Brady, Richard Thompson, Guy Garvey, and Joni Mitchell.
TEACHING
He has extensive experience working with groups in schools, and since 2007 he has taught the History of Pop music, Songwriting, Professional Musicianship, Working as an Ensemble, and Arts Management on the National Diploma and HND music courses at Northampton College. He holds a postgraduate teaching qualification and teaches songwriting and guitar privately and for Northamptonshire ALS, and has organised and taught at songwriting workshops in Austria, Slovenia, Denmark, Romania and the UK. The SoundCloud links below represent rough recordings of co-writes written at GRUNDTVIG workshops.