Steve Dawson is an award-winning Canadian guitarist, originally from Vancouver. He is a solo artist, songwriter, pedal steel player, multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer now living and working in Nashville, TN. Over the past two decades, Steve has become such an indelible fixture on the Canadian musical landscape that it’s tempting to take him for granted. The music that flows out of him is so natural and authentic that it’s possible to forget all of the toil that went into producing it. He has produced, engineered and mixed over 100 albums for many artists from all over the world, and continues to work as a side-person and freelance musician both on stage and in the studio. Whether he’s turning heads on the concert circuit with his incendiary playing, or pulling the best possible performances out of the many artists that he works with in the studio, Dawson is always striving to take things to the next level.
Steve has forged an impressive career full of highlights and awards, including:
~ 7 Juno Awards as artist/producer, 18 times nominated
~ 3 times named “Producer Of The Year” at Western Canadian Music Awards
~ 3 times named “Producer Of The Year” at Canadian Folk Music Awards
~ Recipient of many other awards including Maple Blues Awards, Grand Prix De Jazz De Montreal, Blues Blast Awards, and many Western Canadian Music Awards and Canadian Folk Awards as an artist and producer.
Steve sees production as an exciting step in the creative journey that a song takes from its beginning as a songwriter’s idea to a final recorded product. The producer has to understand the music and be able to know what will open possibilities in it. Being a musician is not essential, but it helps, and Dawson brings enviable chops to his work. He also owns a vast collection of unusual instruments, many of which he plays on the recordings he helps to craft – modern electric instruments find themselves blended in with weissenborns, marxophones, pedal steel, pump organs and other odd antique instruments.
REVIEWS: “One of North America’s best roots artists, bridging inspired songwriting, mastery of multiple stringed instruments and creative production.” – The Record
“Anyone who can hear Dawson play and not be moved is made of stone!” – Penguin Eggs Magazine
“One magazine has referred to Steve Dawson as the T-Bone Burnett of Canada. I tend to think of him more as a Canadian version of Ry Cooder… his fine slide guitar and storytelling, everything seeming to flow effortlessly.” – Toledo Blade
April 19 at 8:00 p.m.
MEL LEHAN HALL AT ST. JAMES
3214 West 10th Ave, Kitsilano
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=214430
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All ages