MWSFF Community Sing with Songleader Dan Chouinard
With lyrics supplied, 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 honky-tonk 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 broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, and rehearsal pianist for Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin and Lindsay Lohan on the 2005 movie. Recording artist with Peter Ostroushko, Prudence Johnson and Maria Jette and many others. Leader of the classic country band, Lush Country, comprised of Prairie Home Companion alumni. danchouinard.com
Dan Chouinard is a St. Paul-based honky-tonk 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 broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, and rehearsal pianist for Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin and Lindsay Lohan on the 2005 movie. Recording artist with Peter Ostroushko, Prudence Johnson and Maria Jette and many others. Leader of the classic country band, Lush Country, comprised of Prairie Home Companion alumni. danchouinard.com