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Current Berklee student and former member of the band Crunge, Dan started playing guitar at the age of 5 and was performing at the age of 8 with adult bands in and around the Lowell area.
Dan has won numerous awards including the youngest to place in the Guitar Centers King of the Blues top 9 blues guitarists in New England at the age of 14 and again at 16 (2005, 2007). Gary Hoey has since asked him to perform at his guitar cllinics. His band Crunge had taken 1st place wins in numerous competitions including head to head with 64 bands for Jam Solid Productions. Crunge has also opened for Recycled Percussion and Ayla Brown.
He now plays guitar out of the Boston based band Mindwalk Blvd. who regularly plays in clubs in the Boston area such as The Middle East Downstars, Harpers Ferry, Mojitos, and the All Asia.
Dan has been teaching guitar, bass and drums from the age of 14 and taught an Advanced Guitar Lab course at North Middlesex for a semester at the age of 16. He loves teaching and is pursuing a dual major at Berklee College of Music for Music Education and Songwriting. He will teach any style and all levels and makes each lesson as fun as possible.
"Dan is a great guitarist who has some amazing blues chops! He will blow you away! (Gary Hoey)
"I can already tell you are going to do great things at this school" (Jon Finn - Berklee)