Bio
After fifteen years
as a guitarist and professional
musician in New York City I decided it was time to come back to live
and work in the D.C. area. I left D.C. the first time to attend Berklee
College of Music, in Boston and returned to live in the 80’s. At that
time, I played with Root Boy Slim
and Jr. Cline and the Recliners
and
many other groups. I also held the guitar chair at the National Theater
for a while, playing “Sweet Charity” and “Cats”. In 1989 I moved to New
York because, well it’s New York- it’s happening. And it was. I played
in music clubs almost every night, and did a good amount of studio work
by day. I recorded with such artists as; Don Byron (Don Byron Plays the
Music of Mickey Katz), Eric
Anderson, Jim
Allen, Ben E. King,
Roscoe
Gordon (Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love) as well as my own bands; the
Long Shadows, Dan Hovey Group, The Haunted Lobsters and Dan Hovey &
Bad Daddy!
In 1999 I appeared on a Broadway stage about 470 times in
the show “Swing!”
where I was featured playing guitar and lap steel.
The run lasted 14 months, and when it was over I started subbing for
guitarists in other shows, including Full Monte, Thoroughly Modern
Millie, Aida and Mamma Mia! But New York had changed alot under the
reigns of mayor "Rudy" and even more post 9/11, and I noticed that a
bunch of music clubs were gone; The Supper Club, The Bottom Line,
Tramps, Manny’s Car Wash, McGoverns, Chicago Blues, The Speakeasy,
Fannies Oyster Bar, Jack’s Joint, Mondo Cane, Mondo Perso, The
Wetlands, Brother’s Bar-B-Q, Louisiana Bar and Grill, Windows on the
World (top floor of the World Trade Center), The Angry Squire, Smalls
and The Village Gate. I could go on all night. With a couple of
exceptoins almost every place I had played or listened to music was
gone. So I decided it was time to return to my roots in Washington, DC.
And here I've been since "04."
Back in DC I'm gigging like crazy with my
bands. “Dan Hovey & Bad Daddy!” - a re-creation of the last band I
led in NYC which is a swingin’ and rockin’ retro style trio with Dave
Elliot and Rico Petrocelli on drums and bass respectively, and GHz
(gigahertz) with 2 other great musicians, Scott Giambusso on Bass
and
John Zidar on drums. GHz, a power trio performs hard-driving rock of
the classic era, Cream, Hendrix, Zeppelin and the like. The band also
performs a fair number of my originals. I also work weekly with a super
talented singer from the area, Mary Ann Redmond.
And in an effort to keep
learning, I study with reknown Boston based jazz teacher, Charlie
Banacos. Stay tuned..........more to follow!
Copyright © 2005 Dan Hovey