{{short description|American singer-songwriter}} {{Use American English|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Dawn Landes | image = Dawn Landes at the Chicago Winery 2015-02-03 21.39.45 (16255005127).jpg | caption = Landes performing in 2015 at the Chicago City Winery | image_size = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|12|05}} | birth_place = Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. | origin = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | instrument = Guitar, vocals, glockenspiel | genre = Folk, Rock, Pop,<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url={{allMusic |class=artist |id=p514559/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Dawn Landes|last=Phares|first=Heather|publisher=AMG | access-date=18 September 2012}}</ref> Country<ref>{{cite web|last=Freeman |first=Jon |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/how-indie-songwriter-dawn-landes-revived-lush-nashville-sound-on-new-album-707516/ |title=Dawn Landes Talks New Album, Nashville Producer Fred Foster |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=2018-08-08 |access-date=2020-03-19}}</ref> | occupation = {{hlist|Singer-songwriter| multi-instrumentalist| glockenspiel player| sound engineer | record producer<ref name="allmusiccredits">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic |class=artist |id=p514559/credits|pure_url=yes}}|title=Credits: Dawn Landes|last=Phares|first=Heather|publisher=AMG | access-date=18 September 2012}}</ref>}} | label = {{hlist|Western Vinyl|Cooking Vinyl|Fargo| Tummy Touch}} | associated_acts = The Bandana Splits, Hem, Sufjan Stevens | website = {{URL|dawnlandes.com}} }}
'''Dawn Landes''' (born December 5, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is originally from around Louisville, Kentucky but spent many years living and performing in Brooklyn, New York. As a recording artist she has released five full-length albums: ''dawn's music'' (2005), ''Fireproof'' (2008), ''Sweetheart Rodeo'' (2010), ''Bluebird'' (2014) and ''Meet Me At The River'' (2018) as well as five EPs: ''Straight Lines'' (2006), ''Two Three Four'' (2006), ''Mal Habillée'' (2012), ''Covers EP'' (2014) and ''Desert Songs'' (2015).<ref name="allmusic" /> In support of her releases, Landes has toured extensively in the US, Europe and around the world, often sharing the stage with artists such as Ray Lamontagne, Feist, Andrew Bird, José González, The Weakerthans, Midlake, Suzanne Vega, and Sufjan Stevens.<ref name="fest">{{cite web |url=http://www.festivalsearcher.com/artists.aspx?artist_id=dawn_Landes |title=Dawn Landes |access-date=2012-09-18 |publisher=Festival Searcher}}</ref>
She sings and plays glockenspeil as part of New York City American roots music band Hem, and as an instrumentalist, she has been a member of Sufjan Stevens' touring band (2015–2016). A producer and engineer, she worked at Stratosphere Sound in New York City and at Philip Glass' own personal recording studio. In 2007 Landes helped found Saltlands Studio in Brooklyn, NY. She has collaborated with contemporaries like Justin Townes Earle, Will Oldham and Josh Ritter in the studio.<ref name="wsj">{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704433904576212872931811088 |title=Rocking Near the F Train |last=Dollar |first=Steve |access-date=2012-09-21 |work=The Wall Street Journal|date=March 21, 2011 }}</ref> Her songs have been featured in popular films and TV shows, including ''The Good Wife'', ''Bored to Death'', ''Skins'', ''House'', ''Gossip Girl'' and ''United States of Tara''. She composed original scores for two feature films ''Blackbird'' and ''Familiar Strangers'' and wrote the end credit song for ''Savage Grace'' starring Julianne Moore.<ref name="IMDB">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2518924/ |title=Dawn Landes – IMDb |access-date=2012-09-18 |publisher=IMDb}}</ref> Landes has appeared with The American Songbook Series, Boston Pops, TED and in 2012 with the NYC Ballet at the Lincoln Center for the Benjamin Millepied ballet "Two Hearts" singing a ballad entitled "The Brown Girl" as part of composer Nico Muhly's score.<ref name="nyt2">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/arts/dance/millepied-and-muhly-collaborate-for-new-york-city-ballet.html?_r=0 |last=Sulcas |first=Roslyn |title=Two Heads Work Together for Multiple Feet |access-date=2012-09-21 |work=The New York Times|date=May 4, 2012 }}</ref>
In June 2012, she released ''Mal Habillée'', a collection of original French songs in the style of Ye-Ye. It features guest vocals by Matthew Caws (Nada Surf) and Tunde Adebimpe (TV on the Radio) and an interactive ebook with illustrations by the artist Danica Novgorodoff to accompany the text.<ref name="sensation">{{cite web|url=http://www.sensationrock.net/article-dawn-landes-mal-habillee-107291823.html |title=Dawn Landes, Mal Habillée |access-date=2012-09-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222142106/http://www.sensationrock.net/article-dawn-landes-mal-habillee-107291823.html |archive-date=2014-02-22 }}</ref> In February 2014, she released ''Bluebird'' which features guest appearances by Norah Jones and others ''Bluebird'' won the 2015 14th Annual Independent Music Awards for '"Folk/Singer-Songwriter Album of the Year".
On October 2, 2020, Landes released her latest album, ROW, featuring the music from the upcoming musical of the same name, written with book-writer Daniel Goldstein, under commission from New York Voices. The album project began with a Ted Talk Landes presented in 2015 on the musical's subject, transatlantic rower, Tori Murden McClure.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/dawn_landes_a_song_for_my_hero_the_woman_who_rowed_into_a_hurricane |title=Dawn Landes: A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane |date=May 8, 2015 |access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> The album features Will Oldham, Rachel Grimes, and Ben Sollee. The show was originally set to premiere in the summer of 2020 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref name="top40-charts.com">{{cite web | url=https://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=160786&cat= | title=Dawn Landes Releases New Album "ROW" }}</ref> The Williamstown Theatre Festival announced a partnership with Audible to release all seven of the productions originally expected to be performed during the 2020 festival.<ref name="top40-charts.com"/>
In 2024 Landes recorded and toured songs from the 1971 'The Liberated Woman's Songbook' by Jerry Silverman. In London, this included an on stage discussion with Peggy Seeger.
Landes also performs as a member of all-girl trio The Bandana Splits.<ref name="clash">{{cite web |url=http://www.clashmusic.com/news/introducing-the-bandana-splits |title=Introducing... The Bandana Splits |last=Murray |first=Robin |date=June 6, 2011 |access-date=2012-09-18 |publisher=Clash Music}}</ref> Landes was once married to musician Josh Ritter, with whom she also toured.<ref name="play">{{cite web |url=http://www.adn.com/2012/01/12/2261167/a-way-with-words.html |title=Literate songwriter Josh Ritter finds time for fans |access-date=2012-09-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112050652/http://www.adn.com/2012/01/12/2261167/a-way-with-words.html |archive-date=2013-01-12 }}</ref> She now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is married to composer Creighton Irons, with whom she has two children, Callan and Wright.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://chathammagazinenc.com/dawn-landes-reflects-on-her-career/ |title=Singer-Songwriter Dawn Landes Reflects on Her Career So Far|access-date=13 January 2022}}</ref>
==Discography== ; Albums * ''dawn's music'' (2005) * ''Fireproof'' (2008) * ''Sweetheart Rodeo'' (2010) * ''Bluebird'' (2014) * ''Meet Me at the River'' (2018) * ''ROW'' (2020) * ''The Liberated Woman's Songbook'' (2024)
; EPs * ''Straight Lines'' (2005) * ''Two Three Four'' (2006) * ''Mal Habillée'' (2012) * ''Covers EP'' featuring Jim James (My Morning Jacket) (2014) * ''Desert Songs EP'' with Piers Faccini (2016) * ''My Tiny Twilight'' (2019)
==Songs in other media== [[File:Justin Townes Earle & Dawn Landes - 2010-01-27 Nashville, TN.jpg|thumb|Landes on stage accompanied by Justin Townes Earle in Nashville, Tennessee in 2010]] * 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.<ref name="IMDB" /> * She also contributed a song (Lullaby for Tony) for the closing credits of the 2007 film ''Savage Grace''.<ref name="IMDB" /> * 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.<ref name="ascap">{{cite web |url=http://www.ascap.com/playback/2010/05/radar_report/nobull.aspx |title=No Bull |last=Rickman |first=James |access-date=2012-09-18 |publisher=ASCAP}}</ref> * "Straight Lines" was also used in a television advertisement for Transport for London in the UK.<ref name="LondonTransport">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1nYWIfwm7k |title=London Transport |date=May 12, 2007 |access-date=2012-09-18 |publisher=YouTube}}</ref> * "Straight Lines" was also used at the end of the documental "When Harry Left Hogwarts" released as special feature in the Blu-ray version of ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2''.<ref name="IMDB" /> * The song "Drive" was used in the "Under My Skin" episode of the fifth season of the Fox series ''House M.D.''<ref name="IMDB" /> * 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfPNO7G7qqY|title=Won't Back Down - help repeal Prop 8|date=May 22, 2009|access-date=December 5, 2024|via=YouTube}}</ref> * The track "Toy Piano" from the album ''Fireproof'' was used in an episode of ''Californication'' and ''Bored to Death''.<ref name="IMDB" /> * The track "Twilight" from the album ''Fireproof'' was used as incidental music in an episode of ''Holby City''.<ref name="holby">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sqx1w |title=BBC One – Holby City, Series 12, Episode 37 of 55 |access-date=2012-09-18 |publisher=BBC One}}</ref> * The track "Mud and Stars" was used in the fifth episode of the Australian mini-series ''Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities''.<ref name="gaga">{{cite web |url=http://www.gaga.com.au/underbelly-a-tale-of-two-cities |title=Underbelly: A Tale Of Two Cities |access-date=2012-09-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302181340/http://gaga.com.au/underbelly-a-tale-of-two-cities/ |archive-date=2011-03-02 }}</ref> * "All Dressed in White" was used in the series four premiere of ''Skins''.<ref name="skins">{{cite web |url=http://www.skinsmusic.co.uk/php/Season_4/skins_Season4_episode1.php |title=Skins Season 4 Episode 1: Thomas |access-date=2012-09-18}}</ref> * Landes has scored two feature films, ''Blackbird'' (2007) and ''Familiar Strangers'' (2008).<ref name="IMDB" /> * The song "Home" was featured on the CBS series ''The Good Wife''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dawn Landes Song "Home" in The Good Wife |url=http://saltlands.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/dawn-landes-song-home-in-the-good-wife/ |website=saltlands.wordpress.com |date=April 19, 2014 |publisher=Saltlands |access-date=7 October 2014}}</ref>
==References== thumb|Landes in September 2014, posing in Chicago after the debut concert of Bryan Ferry's North American stop of his World Tour 2014, for which she was the special guest (opening act) {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.dawnlandes.com/ Official homepage] * [http://www.myspace.com/dawnlandes Official MySpace page] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120924210604/http://archives.nodepression.com/2008/05/ingenue-engineer/ No Depression Town and Country Featured Artist] * [http://www.facebook.com/thebandanasplits The Bandana Splits Facebook Page] * {{TED speaker}} * {{Discogs artist|Dawn Landes|dawn Landes}} * [https://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=160786&cat= Dawn Landes Releases New Album "ROW" @ Top40-Charts.com - New Songs & Videos from 49 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 30 Countries]
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