Artist Information
Biography
Diana Wagner is an acoustic musician and folksinger who preserves and shares historic, traditional and acoustic folk music and blues. As an historian, collector, and performer, Diana gives voice to our musical traditions and tells the stories behind the songs.
Born in Northern Wisconsin and now based on Maryland's beautiful Eastern Shore, Diana plays acoustic and classical guitar, Appalachian dulcimer, banjo, strumstick, native flute and diddley-bow. She also plays multiple percussion hand instruments. Folk audiences know her show-opening trademark: to begin with an a capella mountain song. Whether singing Civil War songs, blue grass foot-tappers, Irish love ballads, or indie folk from from contemporary back roads, Diana is committed to telling the personal stories and sharing the histories of the people who have come before us and who walk with us.
Diana readily customizes her shows as necessary for thematic or audience-specific needs (women, womyn, children, social justice topics).
Diana is also a classical guitarist with a variety of musical interests. In addition, she directs the Maryland site of Guitars in the Classroom, an innovative program that brings guitars and music integration to classroom teachers across the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Instrumentation
Discography
Tradition Bearer, Full Length CD, 2008
Available on iTunes, CDBaby, Amazon and other electronic outlets
Official Website
Video
Photo Gallery
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Press
Setlist
Set Lists Vary Depending on Venue, Audience, and Type of Event. A one-hour set typically contains 10 songs.
Diana's song-list is ever-growing and changing.
The current list is available at
http://dianawagnermusic.com/song_list
Sets can be built to address particular themes (women, Civil War, coal mining, love songs, gospel, etc.)
Here is Diana's song list as of July 2010:
Amazing Grace
Ashokan Farewell (Jay Unger)
Barbara Allen
Blow the Candles Out
Boattail Riviera (Jim Colbert)
Bold Bangum
Boy Who Lived Here (Sarah Cleveland)
Bread and Roses (Oppenheimer/Farina)
Bright Morning Stars
Camp a Little While
Cane Press
Carolina Pines (Kate Wolf)
Common Thread (Pat Humphries)
Country Roads (John Denver)
Crawdad Song
Danville Girl
Darcy Farrow
Devil and the Farmer's Wife
Dixie Darlin' (Carter Family)
Down to the River
Fare Thee Well
Farther Along (Stevens & Baxter)
Farewell, My Friends
Feliz Navidad
500 Miles
Follow the Drinkin' Gourd
Froggie Went A-Courtin'
Give Yourself to Love (Kate Wolf)
Goin' Down That Road
Groundhog Song
Hands (Phil Ochs)
Hard Times (Stephen Foster)
Homeplace (Kate Long)
How Can I Keep From Singing? (Plenn)
Huntingdon (Wagner)
I'll Fly Away
I Wonder When I Shall Be Married
It's Gonna Rain (Scott Ainslee)
Joshua (Fought the Battle of Jericho)
Jubilee (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
Judgement Day/Parchman's Farm
La Bamba Last Train for Glory (Arlo Guthrie)
Lilac and the Apple (Kate Wolf)
Lion Sleeps Tonight
MTA Song
My Horses Ain't Hungry
Molly Malone
Mountain Dew
Mountain Song (Holly Near)
Oh, Freedom
Old Green Sweater (Dan Berggren)
Old Zeb (Larry Kaplan)
One Fine Day (Kate Bush)
One Vacant Chair
Owensboro
Parting Friends (Harp Song)
Prodigal Song (traditional)
Riddle Song
River of Jordan (Carter Family)
School Day's Over
Settle Down (Goin' Down to Tampa)
Shenandoah
Southern Girl's Reply
Sow 'Em on the Mountains
Summertime
Swimming to the Other Side (Pat Humphries)
Teardrops in the Snow
Then I'm Going Home
Through My Father's Door (Wagner)
Two Sisters
Vine and Fig Tree
Water is Wide
Wayfaring Stranger
Weeping Pilgrim
Whispering Jesse (John Denver)
Will My Mother Know Me? (Carter Family)
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Willow Tree
Whispering Jesse (John Denver)
Who Will Watch the Home Place (Kate Long)
Worried Man Blues (Carter Family)
You Say the Battle Is Over (David Mallet)
