Dana Fuchs

“Dana Fuchs has one of those unmistakable voices, one perfect for exploring the confluence of blues and soul, the places where Otis Redding and Janis Joplin rub elbows and where the night and smoke get thick.” -Popmatters Dana Fuchs has never dealt in nostalgia. For this questing artist, it’s not about the rear- view but the road ahead. The next song. The next session. Tonight’s show and tomorrow’s bus ride. But as Dana sheds her musical skin with her triumphant fourth album Love Lives On, it seems a fitting juncture to rewind the reels and thumb a backstory as compelling as any in rock ‘n’ roll. This life and times doesn’t always make for easy reading. The triumphs are laced by tragedy, ugliness, injustice. But whatever the obstacles, music and love have been the beacons that guide her on. As one of New York City’s favorite daughters, it’s tempting to imagine that Dana’s career began amidst the subterranean throb in the clubs on the Lower East Side. It’s true: that city was her birthplace and springboard to fame. But to truly grasp her artistic motivations, you’d have to follow the family’s car towards Florida, and rattle along the dirt tracks until you hit Wildwood: a backwoods town, population 2000, where black and white were split along battlelines and distrust simmered in the air. “Back in the ’70s, it was a sorta small, racist town,” remembers Dana, who dropped a social hand-grenade by dating a black friend. “We were a big family from New York, Irish-Catholic, there was no one like us in the area. I tended to gravitate more towards the African-American community. I felt more accepted by them.” Dana and her five older siblings ran wild in the woods (she remembers herself as a “tomboy with dirt under my nails”). Yet this was no picture-perfect childhood, the family’s mood and rhythm set by her father: a former Marine in daily conflict with his demons. “He was a very tortured soul who had one of the most brutal lives of anyone I’ve ever known,” explains Dana of the patriarch commemorated in Faithful Sinner, one of the songs she wrote for the album. “He was tortured by his father and molested by his mother. His beatings only stopped because his father took his own life. My father found him. With all that pain, he was most certainly a flawed parent. He could also be very angry and scary, especially when he drank. Still, we knew he loved us.” If the household was fractious, then music was always the balm. Ostracised at school, Dana found solace in the stomp-and-holler gospel of her local Baptist church, but it was the British classic rock blasted out by her siblings – The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Fleetwood Mac – that lit a lightbulb over her head. “That’s when I knew I had to do music,” she explains. “When I started hearing that stuff, at 10 or 11, I stopped listening to other music completely. Later on, I appreciated my parents’ music – Hank Williams, Ray Charles, Billie Holiday – but when I heard the old classic rock ‘n’ roll, I lost my mind over that stuff.” Dana Fuchs Info Tickets Select Tickets LIMIT 6 PER PERSON General Seating $35.00 Preferred Seating $45.00 Delivery Method ticketFast FREE RECOMMENDED. Print your tickets out now! Mail $1.00 Please allow 10 days for Mail delivery. UPS $14.50 No P.O. Boxes, U.S. addresses only. Please allow 2-3 business days for UPS 2nd Day delivery. Will Call FREE Hold at venue box office. Terms & Conditions The Iridium is a fully seated venue. Ticket price does not include the $15 food and drink minimum at the venue. All sales are final. See Less MusicBlues rockSoul blues+1 About Dana Fuchs Dana Fuchs Artist This is the official Dana Fuchs page on Facebook. http://danafuchs.com Events with Dana Fuchs NOV 9 Going Dana Fuchs - DRU Cultuurfabriek Fri 2 PM · Ulft View Event NOV 10 Going Manifesto Sat 2:30 PM · Hoorn View Event NOV 11 Going Dana Fuchs at Muziekcentrum De Bosuil | 11 November Sun 10 AM · Weert View Event