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Contact Information
Dan Mazer
201-B Main St.
Laurel, MD 20707
Tel: 301-789-2594
Cell: 202-489-3028
E-mail: banjerdan@yahoo.com
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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
SOLO AND BAND PERFORMANCE
- Member of The Jackstraws, San
Diego, CA. Performances at: San Diego Zoo, Sea World, Horton Plaza,
Seaport Village, The Lord Hornblower, Hyatt Hotel, Hilton Mission Bay,
Young Audiences, Wild Animal Park, Nov. 1995 - Nov. 2000.
- Solo performance at
First Night! New Year's Eve celebration, Alexandria, VA, 1994 &
1995.
- Strolling musician on
the floating casino Lady Luck, Natchez, MS, 1994.
- Strolling banjo player
at Opryland Theme Park and General Jackson Showboat, Nashville, TN,
1992-1994.
- Kurt Weill's
"Little Threepenny Music" with the Owensboro (KY) Symphony
Orchestra (Banjo), 1992.
- Member of Rockcreek.
Performances at: Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Hillsdale, NY; 1990 IBMA
World of Bluegrass, Owensboro, KY; The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA; Rocky
Gap Festival, Cumberland, MD.
- Backed up country
singer Cleve Francis at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC (Banjo).
- Member of D.J. &
the C.B. Pickers. Performances at: Gettysburg Bluegrass Camporee,
Gettysburg, PA; Appalachian Jubilee, Chambersburg, PA; 1988 Music Fest,
Bethlehem, PA.
- Performances and
busking in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway and
Austria, 1995.
- Selected solo gigs:
The San Diego Folk Festival, La Jolla, CA; Lestat's Cafe, San Diego, CA;
Mikey's Coffeehouse, Poway, CA; The Bean, Portland, OR; Appalachian
Jubilee radio show, Chambersburg, PA; Food for Thought, Washington, DC;
Mr. Smith's, Washington, DC; Chimney's Tavern, Fredericksburg, VA; The
Basement, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; The Earthling Bookshop,
San Luis Obispo, CA; Linnea's, San Luis Obispo, CA; Pitzer College,
Claremont, CA; The King of France Tavern, Annapolis, MD.
STUDIO
WORK
- Background music for a
segment of America's Most Wanted TV program (Banjo & dobro).
- Background music on
videotape for the Lyndon B. Johnson Memorial Library. (Dobro &
guitar).
- Score of Roger
Miller's "Big River" for Harlequin Dinner Theater production
(Banjo & guitar).
- "Balloons Over
America" radio commercial for broadcast in DC area (Banjo).
- "A Touch of
Blue" album w/ D.J. & the C.B. Pickers, WEBCO Records (All
instruments & vocals).
THEATER
- Country Music U.S.A. - Opryland Theme
Park, Nashville, TN, 1993 & 1994 seasons.
- Legends of Country
Music
and Country Music Jamboree - Fireside Playhouse, Ft. Atkinson,
WI.
- Pump Boys and Dinettes - Circle Players,
Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, TN.
- Robber Bridegroom - West End Dinner
Theater, Alexandria, VA; Le Petit Theatre de Vieux Carre, New Orleans,
LA; Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theater, Nashville, TN (band leader);
Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA (band leader).
- Cabaret - Tawes Theater,
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD.
- Chicago - Dominion Stage,
Alexandria, VA.
- Dark of the Moon - Source Theater,
Washington, DC.
- I Believe in Country - King's Dominion
theme park, Dosewell, VA.
TELEVISION
- David Wolper's Liberty
Weekend production at The Meadowlands, NJ (Banjo).
- Wayne Busbice and the
Busby Brothers,
Maryland Public Television (Banjo and vocal).
- The Larz from Mars
Show,
Northern Virginia Cable Channel 10, Fairfax, VA (Banjo, vocal and
interview).
PUBLICATIONS
- "Eddie Adcock:
Renaissance Man" (cover story) - Banjo Newsletter, November
1996
- "Linda Ronstadt
Talks Bluegrass!" - Bluegrass Unlimited, June 1996
- "Mark Vann:
Traditional Sounds Electrified" - 5-String Quarterly, Spring
1996
- "The Influence of
Bluegrass on Today's Country Music" - Bluegrass Unlimited,
July & August 1995.
- "Kieran Kane
Interview" (cover story) - Acoustic Musician, May 1995.
- "Run C&W: The
Fathers (and Sons) of Rhythm & Bluegrass" (cover story) - Bluegrass
Unlimited, March 1995.
- "Marty Stuart:
First and Foremost a Musician" (cover story), Acoustic Musician,
December 1994.
- "Andrea
Zonn" - Bluegrass Unlimited, December 1994.
- "Bluegrass
Special at the Grand Ole Opry" - Bluegrass Unlimited, May
1994.
- "Kathy
Chiavola" - Bluegrass Unlimited, July 1993.
- "Tribute to Red
Allen" (Concert Review) - Riff, July 1993.
- "Béla Fleck and
the Flecktones", UFO TOFU (CD Review) - Riff, Vol. 1, No. 2,
November 1992.
- "Reader's
Forum" - Bluegrass Unlimited, September 1991.
- "Pete Wernick
Interview" - Banjo Newsletter, November 1990.
AWARDS
& CITATIONS
- Second Place-Dobro at
the Old Time Fiddlers' Championship, Clarksville, TN, 1993.
- Second Place-New
York City Banjo Contest, Staten Island, NY,1991.
- First Place-Dobro,
Deer Creek Fiddlers' Convention, Westminster, MD, 1990.
- Rockcreek won First Place in
the band contest at 1990 Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Hillsdale, NY.
EDUCATION
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B.A. in Music Theory from George Washington
University, Washington, DC, 1984.
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