Dana Lyn

Dana Lyn is a violinist/fiddler, pianist and composer. Lyn has collaborated with Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Hank Roberts, D’Angelo and Louis de Paor, among others. She has received commissions from Brooklyn Rider, A Far Cry, Palaver Strings and the Apple Hill String Quartet. Her projects include the sextet Mother Octopus, a collaboration with D’Onofrio called Slim Bone Head Volt and a duo with guitarist Kyle Sanna. She was an Artist in Residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in 2017, an awardee of the 2018 ACF Create Commission, a recipient of the 2020 NYFA Women’s Fund Award and a 2021 Sundance Composer Lab Fellow. Besides being a well-versed fiddle player in the Irish tradition, Lyn is also a visual artist. She has made stop-motion animations for Taylor Mac and jazz musician Ben Goldberg as well as for her own projects. In 2022, she released her eighth album, “A Point on a Slow Curve”, via In-a-Circle Records.