Dawn Landes

  • Louisville, KY
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  • Singer/Songwriter
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  • 1999
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About Dawn Landes

“Studios showed her how hard the business is. She continued to write and perform, but she also learned how to engineer and produce… And then, as the female singer/songwriter Bible dictates, she went to Paris. Where, according to that same Bible, she got her first contract and made her first CD.”
- HUFFINGTON POST profile on Dawn Landes

Kentucky born Dawn Landes first traveled to Paris to perform in the Les Femmes s’en Mêlent festival as a 22 year old songwriter. Her hand-made cds caught the attention of indie label Ocean Music who released her first album “Dawns Music” in France in 2005. She toured the country for the next few years, not speaking a word of French. Picking up bits of slang from the musicians she met on the road, Landes started to learn the songs of French greats Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy and Georges Brassens. When Paris-based label Fargo released her second album “Fireproof” in 2008, it was praised by the European press and she appeared on many French radio programs, touring the French countryside with artists such as Feist and Andrew Bird. Shortly after, Landes moved from New York to Paris into a little flat near Parc Georges Brassens. One morning she found herself at an antique book fair in the park and discovered a picture book with a 45” vinyl record titled “George Brassens Chante Pour Les Enfants” (George Brassens Sings for Children). The songbook inspired her to write the first song on this album “Mal Habillée” (Badly Dressed) in nursery rhyme style: part sweet, part sinister.
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Tour Dates

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  • May 28 Tuesday
    New York, NY, US Cornelia Street Café
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  • Jun 1 Saturday
    Cambridge, MA, US The Sinclair
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  • Jun 27 Thursday
    Brighton, UK Sticky Mike's Frog Bar
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  • Jun 28 Friday
    London, UK The Water Rats
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Discography

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  • Sweet Heart Rodeo (2009)
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    Sweet Heart Rodeo (2009)
    Essential Media Group
  • Fireproof (2008)
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    Fireproof (2008)
    Fargo
  • Dawn's Music (2005)
    Dawn Landes
    Dawn's Music (2005)
    Ocean Records
  • Re:Live (2005)
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    Re:Live (2005)
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  • Mal Habillée
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    Mal Habillée
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