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BIO:
Eddie Danger is a touring Wisconsin songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has built an entirely original sound from folk, roots, jazz, world music and looping. He's released 11 albums, played thousands of shows, and created his own music community around a 170-year-old hydro-powered mill in Iola, WI.
Contrary to popular belief, Eddie Danger’s last name does not come from Polish immigrant ancestors known as the Dangerouski’s who shortened their name when they came to Milwaukee.
As a young snowboarder Eddie went off a large jump and ended up landing on a skier that crashed before him. Later that night he was at a party at the ski lodge telling the epic tale of the evil skier who thwarted his landing when someone in the crowd shyfully admitted that they were the skier in the story!
The two became friends and rock climbing partners. Because rock climbing gear is expensive Eddie and his new friend started free climbing and bouldering without ropes or harnesses giving him his new name, Eddie Danger.
There are two other Eddie Danger’s in the world. One is a heavy metal drummer in Sweden. The other is an exotic go-go-dancer/roller-skater who has been interviewed on a podcast titled, "Eddie Danger Has a Perfect Penis.”
One thing is for sure… They don’t call him Eddie Careful!
Eddie Danger started his career in music as an alto sax player in the 5th grade. In the 9th grade he was kicked out of the Jazz band and stopped playing music for about 4 years. At age 18 an enlightening experience in the parking lot of a Grateful Dead concert reintroduced Ed’s Love of music and he started frequenting drum circles.
Now he plays the upside-down guitar (right-handed guitar played left handed), bass, ukulele, and banjo. He also plays the didgeridoo, piano/keys, a portable suitcase pump organ, saxophone, flutes, and a plethora of percussion instruments he has collected in his world travels.
Eddie plays solo using a loop pedal to layer voices-instruments AND with his folk/rock trio. He has played thousands of shows and has toured the US & Canada. The latest album was produced by Jerry Garcia & David Grisman percussionist and all around musicologist, Joe Craven.
Eddie Danger is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, author, playwright, festival & parade organizer, story teller, sound & lighting tech, stage manager, master of ceremonies, actor, blogger, puppeteer & entrepreneur.
Danger has bicycled from Canada to Mexico, worked on organic farms, has been a sea kayak instructor in Alaska, a school bus driver, a whitewater raft guide, a Waldorf teacher, and co-starred in a film about jug band music with Garrison Keillor from A Prairie Home Companion. He has been the volunteer coordinator for the world's largest renewable energy fair and for Folk Alliance International.
He created the Feel Good Festival and continues to run events in its new incarnation, The Feel Good Revival (FGR). FGR Productions is a full audio, film, and events planning company that has created festivals, music videos, haunted houses, triathlons, touring puppet shows, parades, and other gatherings.
The base of operations for Eddie Danger and FGR Productions is a 170 year old hydro-powered Historic Mill in Iola, Wisconsin that is an eco-powered music venue, event space, recording studio, and artist-in-residence program. It's also a cafe where Eddie makes handmade Gelato.
Eddie Danger Sounds Like:
Eddie doesn't sound like other artists. That's precisely the point. Comparing them can help describe the neighborhood. HE HAS HIS OWN HOUSE!
For reference, Eddie Danger occupies some of the same artistic territory as Beck, Bobby McFerrin, Dr. John, Tom Waits and Paul Simon—In the Americana world similarities to John Prine come to mind, the indie/alternative fans will see parallels with Ween, and he can spin a story between songs like folk legend Arlo Guthrie himself. The common thread is the willingness to push roots-based songwriting into unusual rhythmic, instrumental, and theatrical territory.
Eddie is an artist who combines roots sensibility, unusual musical identity, whimsical personality, deep and personal story telling, and an exceptional live performance to Create A Cosmic Experience.
What Genre?
Eddie Danger’s musical journey traces an eclectic evolution from jazz and improvisational music through folk, roots, bluegrass, and country, eventually arriving at his distinctive blend of cosmic folk, world music, and jazz. Drawing on influences from the jam scene, drum circles, and traditional singer-songwriter music, Eddie layers acoustic storytelling with tribal percussion, didgeridoo, flute, saxophone, looping, and experimental textures. Over the years, what began as roots-oriented songwriting has expanded into a genre-bending sound he describes as “Cosmic Folk with a Tribal Twist of Jazz”—music that bridges Americana, improvisation, world rhythms, and playful experimentation. It is Indie Folk at its Roots with a positive message for change. The world is Eddie's stage and we are all players in it.
Eddie Danger in Media:
Eddie Danger's media history is unusually interesting because the coverage has never
been confined to one genre or one type of outlet. A lot of his press footprint is generated by touring rather than by major-label promotion. Over roughly two decades, he has appeared in music magazines, alternative weeklies, public radio, college newspapers, folk-music publications, festival media, podcasts, event listings, film projects, and local hometown press.
The media narrative around him has been remarkably consistent: writers tend to focus on his eccentric instrumentation, humor, live performance, songwriting, environmental/community work, and ability to sound like an ensemble while performing largely by himself.
PRESS QUOTES:
“Dangers most important instrument is his voice: He scats and oomps and sings through clever compositions, sounding not unlike folks answer to Bobby McFerrin!”
-THE ONION av club
“Danger is effective and environmentally aware electro-folk with an acoustic, almost spoken word vibe that reminds one of the late Frank Zappa’s monologue inflections.”
– MAXIMUM INK
"A little bit world/bushmen, a little bit small furry creatures grooving with a pick, a little bit twisted dairyland folk" – CALIFORNIA RECORDING INSTITUTE
“Danger blends poetic whimsy with folk sensibility, suffusing the mix with rhythm-heavy melody, and an injection of jazz-style phrasing when you least expect it. Sounds bizarre doesn’t it? Well, it is. But it’s unique, and it works!”
-LAKE SUPERIOR SOUNDER
“A hallmark of Dangers performances and his music in general, is his sharp wit. He’s extremely entertaining live possessing a common-sense and ample humor which he weaves both into and between songs. The sheer variety of sounds is astounding & at times there are extended breaks that become hypnotic” -RICKS CAFE
Danger’s brilliant and worldly shows play more like an ensemble. He delights in finding snappy audio tricks and playing them on dozens of instruments, sometimes with an electronic aid- it’s funky, heady folk. -THE CITY PAGES
“I’ve found myself listening to a wonderful songwriter who is really making a name for himself in the Folk scene”. -Steph Elkins, SIMPLY FOLK Wisconsin Public Radio
