Folk Bands and Artists
Dan Croll
A British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (piano, trumpet, guitar, bass, drums, and organ among them), Dan Croll combines folk elements and classic Paul Simon-like melodies with electronic beats, African polyrhythms, and guitar hooks, giving his work a lot of varying sounds and dimensions. He was born July 18, 1990 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, moving to Liverpool when he was 18 years old to attend the Paul McCartney-founded Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. While there, he won the national Songwriter of the Year award presented by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, and the attention the award generated eventually led Croll to sign with Turn First Records ...early in 2012. The label released a debut single, “From Nowhere,“ in the fall of the same year, with a second single, “Compliment Your Soul,“ arriving in the spring of 2013. His debut LP, Sweet Disarray, finally arrived in March 2014.
