21st MWSF Community Sing with Dan Chouinard
From the Twin Cities, 'The Piano Man,' Dan Chouinard will help celebrate the Ten Pound Fiddle's 50th season, and the 21st Mid-Winter Singing Festival. An incredible musician and favorite Singing Festival song leader, Chouinard chooses songs from all genres of the Great American Songbook, adding accompaniment on the grand piano or accordion. Lyric booklets provided. So, sit back, relax, sing any part you dream up, and make a gorgeous sound with hundreds of other voices, all led by one of the best, Dan Chouinard.
Dan Chouinard is a St. Paul-based multipurpose pianist, concert soloist and accompanist, street accordionist, sing-along enabler, Italian and French teacher and bicycling vagabond. Host of monthly sings in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Creator and host of many live music-and-history variety shows for broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio and Twin Cities Public Television. Performer on a dozen live radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, and rehearsal pianist for Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin and Lindsay Lohan on the 2005 movie. Recording artist with Peter Ostroushko (of blessed memory), Prudence Johnson and Maria Jette and many others. Co-creator with Prudence Johnson of shows on Randy Newman, Leonard Bernstein, Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael and more. Leader of the classic country band, Lush Country, comprised of Prairie Home Companion veterans.
RECENT: Since summer 2021 Dan has joined Garrison Keillor and Prudence Johnson for concert appearances around the U.S., including Holland, MI and Crystal Falls in the U.P.
(2017) The Minneapolis Star Tribune calls Dan Chouinard “Minnesota’s Accompanist”:
With lyrics projected on a screen, Chouinard lets fly with inventive, often playful, accompaniments, rarely glancing at the keyboard, a feat that one regular considers magic. “It’s kind of his calling,” said the man who’s attended these singalongs for ten years. “I mean, you know he could be playing with anyone, but here he is with us.”
Dan Chouinard is a St. Paul-based multipurpose pianist, concert soloist and accompanist, street accordionist, sing-along enabler, Italian and French teacher and bicycling vagabond. Host of monthly sings in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Creator and host of many live music-and-history variety shows for broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio and Twin Cities Public Television. Performer on a dozen live radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, and rehearsal pianist for Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin and Lindsay Lohan on the 2005 movie. Recording artist with Peter Ostroushko (of blessed memory), Prudence Johnson and Maria Jette and many others. Co-creator with Prudence Johnson of shows on Randy Newman, Leonard Bernstein, Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael and more. Leader of the classic country band, Lush Country, comprised of Prairie Home Companion veterans.
RECENT: Since summer 2021 Dan has joined Garrison Keillor and Prudence Johnson for concert appearances around the U.S., including Holland, MI and Crystal Falls in the U.P.
(2017) The Minneapolis Star Tribune calls Dan Chouinard “Minnesota’s Accompanist”:
With lyrics projected on a screen, Chouinard lets fly with inventive, often playful, accompaniments, rarely glancing at the keyboard, a feat that one regular considers magic. “It’s kind of his calling,” said the man who’s attended these singalongs for ten years. “I mean, you know he could be playing with anyone, but here he is with us.”