Dawn Landes

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Bridging the worlds of indie rock, alt-country, and folk, singer/songwriter Dawn Landes has played with a similarly diverse range of artists, including Fred Eaglesmith, Amy Rigby, John Gorka, and Rainer Maria. A Louisville, KY, native, Landes moved to New York to attend N.Y.U. and play music; she obtained a weekly spot at the Jack Hardy song exchange and also plays frequent shows in New York as well as on the campuses of Yale, Sarah Lawrence, Barnard, Columbia, Brown, and, of course, her own school. In May 2005, Landes released her full-length debut album, Dawn's Music.

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Dawn Landes is a Louisville, Kentucky-born, New York City-based musician who performs under her own name. She is also a sometimes-member of the band Hem, where she has lent her voice to harmony vocals, and plays glockenspiel. She has worked as an audio engineer at Stratosphere Sound in New York City and at Philip Glass' own personal recording studio. She has shared the stage with artists such as Suzanne Vega, José González, Feist, The Weakerthans, Andrew Bird, Midlake, Alexi Murdoch and many others.

As a solo artist, Landes has put out four records:

Dawn's Music (self-released-US/Ocean Music-Europe) 2002two, three, four (Boy Scout recordings-UK) 2006Fireproof (Cooking Vinyl-US/Fargo Music-Europe) 2008Sweet Heart Rodeo (Cooking Vinyl) 2009

Having released Sweet Heart Rodeo in Europe in September 2009, Landes is actively touring to support its release. She has been enjoying much critical success and has done a variety of radio performance including NPR's World Cafe.

Landes is a member of all-girl trio The Bandana Splits who are releasing their debut album August 16, 2011.

Landes was married to musician Josh Ritter.

Songs in Other Media

Two of her songs, "Kissing Song" and "You Alone", are featured in the 2005 film Winter Passing. "Kissing Song" was played during the ending credit.She also contributed a song (Lullaby for Tony) for the closing credits of the 2008 film Savage Grace.The song "Straight Lines" was used in an episode of the Showtime series United States of Tara. It was also used in a commercial for the Chrysler Town and Country.It was also used in a television advertisement for Transport for London in the UK."Straight Lines" was also used at the end of the documental "When Harry Left Hogwarts" released as special feature in the BluRay version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.The song "Drive" was used in the "Under My Skin" episode of the fifth season of the Fox series House M.D.The hidden track "Won't Back Down", a cover of Tom Petty, was used for a Human Rights Campaign video supporting the repeal of Proposition 8.The track "Toy Piano" from the album Fireproof was used in an episode of Californication and Bored to Death.The track "Twilight" from the album Fireproof was used as incidental music in an episode of Holby City.The track "Mud and Stars" was used in the fifth episode of the Australian mini-series Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities."All Dressed in White" was used in the series four premiere of Skins.