Dan Sheehan is an award winning songwriter, international performer, and social activist taking on corruption and environmental devastation with music and lyrics.
Solo and as leader of the bands Banter and The Dan Sheehan Conspiracy, Sheehan has toured the U.S., U.K., Ireland and Spain, receiving airplay on hundreds of radio stations and podcasts worldwide. He has performed or recorded with Patrick Moraz (Yes, the Moody Blues), Dave Krusen (Pearl Jam, Candlebox), John Densmore (the Doors), Spencer Cobrin (Morrissey), Darrel Herbert (the Toadies) and Bob Both (James Brown); and has opened for legends including Courtney Love, the Meat Puppets, and Kíla.
With his current live concert experience The Seas Are Rising, Sheehan builds on his acclaimed show and 2019 album Tales from Earth Incorporated, with a musical cry to attention of the urgency of the climate crisis currently threatening the worlds’ inhabitants. Rock, soul, world, jazz and classical musicians join forces with stories of those around the world already facing devastation from climate change and environmental destruction. Songs about the recent fires scourging lands from California to Brazil to Australia, hurricanes devastating populations from Louisiana to Puerto Rico, drug cartels and fossil fuel companies exploiting natural resources from South America to Africa and sinking islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans tell the story of a planet and its people in peril and the need for an urgent response.
Sheehan has received two awards from ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and received grants for The Seas Are Rising and Tales from Earth Incorporated from the Puffin Foundation and from the Center for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation. For Tales from Earth Incorporated, he was named “Overall Songwriter of the Year” at the Elephant Talk Indie Music Awards the album received “Best Political Subject Album” distinction from the music director awards at WHFR-FM radio (Dearborn, MI). He has performed at festivals throughout the US, UK and Ireland including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK), the Galway Fringe Festival (IE), the Manchester Americana Festival (UK), Le Cheile Music & Arts Festival (Oldcastle, IE), the Texas Rockfest and Red Gorilla Music Fest in (both in Austin, TX), the Shuttle Shuffle Festival (Bradford, UK) and many more.
Dan Sheehan through the years!
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- DSC @ Knitting Factory NYC
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- The DSC at the Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ
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- With Greg Holt at Le Cheile Fest, Oldcastle, Ireland
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- Reflected in Patrick Moraz's studio monitor reording for TFEI
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- Backstage with John Densmore and band
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- In the studio with Dave Krusen (Pearl Jam, Candlebox) during the recording of Tales from Earth Incorporated
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- Rogues Gallery (early Banter) at Mama Kin Music Hall, Boston
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- Being interviewed by Bosstone Tim Burton at Emerson College TV
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- Ciccone Theatre, NJ
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- DSC meets Banter @ SXSW, Austin, 2011
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- With Patrick Moraz and Alan White on Cruise to the Edge
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- At Twain Recording with Bob Both
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- Dan and Gian with Meat Puppet Curt Kirkwood at SXSW
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- Recording The Dan Sheehan Conspiracy with Spencer Cobrin of Morrissey
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- Singing with John Densmore and Sue WIlliams
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- Manchester Americana Festival in Stalybridge, UK
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- Performing live on Radio Starlion, Stockport, UK
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- Taping a show for Radio X Belgium
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- Live on the air at Medway Radio, Gillingham, UK
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- Live at DeBurgo, Galway Songwriter Showcase.
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- With the fellas from Tameside Radio, Stockport, UK
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- Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ.
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- WIth Cris Kirkwood after a Meat Puppets/Dan Sheehan show at Debonaire Music Hall, Teaneck, NJ
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- Urban Pastures, released May 2002.
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- Cover for The Dan Sheehan Conspiracy, Bryant Park, NYC
