Daphne Lee Martin
Daphne Lee Martin is a Singer-Songwriter based in New London, Connecticut.[1][2][3][4][5]
Daphne tours as well as records, and is the co-owner of a New London music store.[6] While her base is in American Roots music genre, reviewers describe her music as being heavily influenced by a range of genres. Daphne has described being influenced by early folk musicians, like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie.[7]
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Early life
Daphne grew up in southern Ohio, where she was home-schooled.[7] She described loving music at an early age, but that she only began writing music at "fourteen or fifteen years old".[1] She started college at 16 years old. Following some College she traveled to New York City to try her hand at performing. She spent several years working on sail training vessels on a program started by famous patriarch of the folk music, Pete Seeger.
Musical career
According to her web page, Daphne, her mother and her sister, released a folk music album when she was a teenager.[8]
Ida Red
Her first professional musical group was a trio, called Ida Red where she, Alison Kelley, and Erica Smith performed on traditional folk music instruments, like the banjo and fiddle, and sang traditional folk songs, and new folk song influenced music, in harmony.[9] Ida Red is the name of a traditional folk song recorded by folk music historian Alan Lomax.[10]
Roadside Attractions
By 2010, in addition to performing with her colleagues in Ida Red, Daphne was touring with a quartet called the Roadside Attractions, with Craig Edwards, Matt Gouette and Brad Bensko.[11] In 2010 the band released an album called Whispers.
Raise the Rent
Daphne is the lead singer and songwriter for a band called Raise the Rent. They are the band on her three most recent albums.
Recordings
| title | year | type | collaborators |
|---|---|---|---|
| ? | 199x? | album | The Windlasses |
| Whispers | 2010 | album | Roadside Attractions |
| Dig & Be Dig | 2011 | album | ? |
| Moxie | 2013 | album | Raise the Rent |
| Frost | 2014 | album | Raise the Rent |
| Fall on your sword | 2015 | album | Raise the Rent |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Westely Thompson (2014-09-22). "Daphne Lee Martin, others perform Morgantown Sound". The Daily Athenaeum. http://www.thedaonline.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_8cfaaa82-42e1-11e4-9a7b-001a4bcf6878.html. Retrieved 2015-08-01. "Now, Martin splits her time throughout the year. She owns a vinyl record shop with her husband and works there for a little more than half the year. The other five months, she travels on tour performing her music."
- ↑ "Daphne Lee Martin - Recorded in Austin Texas". The Outlaw Roadshow. 2015. http://www.theoutlawroadshow.com/daphne-lee-martin/. Retrieved 2015-08-01. "This is no damsel in distress! After a whirlwind affair with roots music, garnering her several songwriting and performance awards, including CT Music Awards' 2012 Country Artist of the Year and Whalie Awards' Album of the Year"
- ↑ Rick Koster (2015-06-18). "New London-based artists among 2015 CT Music Award winners". The Day. http://www.theday.com/article/20150618/ENT10/150619286. Retrieved 2015-01.
- ↑ "EXCLUSIVE: Daphne Lee Martin Covers Tom Waits – Listen". Elmore Magazine. 2015-03-02. http://www.elmoremagazine.com/2015/03/music-news/daphne-lee-martin-covers-tom-waits-listen. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
- ↑ Adrien Begrand (2015-07-27). "Daphne Lee Martin - "I'd Take a Bullet for You" (audio) (premiere)". Pop matters. http://www.popmatters.com/post/195840-daphne-lee-martin-id-take-a-bullet-for-you-audio-premiere/. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
- ↑ John Dankosky, Tucker Ives, Lydia Brown, Catie Talarski (2014-02-21). "New Releases From Goodnight Blue Moon and Daphne Lee Martin". WNPR. http://wnpr.org/post/new-releases-goodnight-blue-moon-and-daphne-lee-martin-0#stream/0. Retrieved 2015-01.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Faye Parenteau (2012-08-14). "Singer Daphne Lee Martin stays true to her roots". The Day. http://www.theday.com/article/20120815/GRACE05/120819841. Retrieved 2015-08-01. "This year is the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Woodie Guthrie — so now there's a resurgence of Woodie Guthrie tunes which is awesome — but it takes an anniversary to bring that to people's consciousness? That's not how it's supposed to work. Some of these songs have been around for 300 years and the only way they're going to be around for another 300 years is if young people do them."
- ↑ "History". http://daphneleemartin.com/daphnes-story. Retrieved 2015-08-01. "At 17, Daphne & her mom and sister recorded an album of harmony-rich old time and maritime songs."
- ↑ "FATHOM THIS! The monthly newsletter from San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park". National Parks Service. September 2008. http://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/news/upload/sept_email_newsletter_2008.pdf. Retrieved 2015-08-01. "Veteran sea music performers Alison Kelley (The Johnson Girls, The NexTradition), Craig Edwards (Forebitter), Daphne Glover (The Windlasses) and Erica Smith have teamed up to form this exciting and innovative maritime folk music band. Accompanying themselves on fiddle, banjo, and guitar, and singing a cappella, they have taken traditional songs through the spinner of modern influences and the byways of America, and have wrung out a new kind of folk."
- ↑ John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax. American Ballads and Folk Songs. Dover Books. p. 110-111. ISBN 9780486319926. https://books.google.ca/books?id=PHPCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA111&dq=%22Alan+Lomax%22+%22American+Ballads+and+Folk+Songs%22+%22IDA+RED%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAWoVChMIvYDFnbSHxwIVhpQNCh2wzQHG#v=onepage&q=%22Alan%20Lomax%22%20%22American%20Ballads%20and%20Folk%20Songs%22%20%22IDA%20RED%22&f=false. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
- ↑ "Roadside Attractions to open Saturday matinee". Elm City Popfest. 2010-03-28. https://elmcitypopfest.wordpress.com/category/artspace-new-haven/page/2/. Retrieved 2015-01. "Sweet singing chanteuse Daphne Glover has her roots in the folk community where she developed her wares from an early age with The Windlasses and later the still active Ida Red. With her new outfit, Roadside Attractions, she delves into the swinging jazz of Blossom Dearie and the sexy pop sensibilities of Feist and Neko Case."
