Dan Schaefer

St. Louis native Dan Schaefer was voluntarily transplanted to Nashville in the mid-‘90s, and a hook-heavy pop writing style was treated to an infusion of folk, country and Americana influences. His songs have been cut by independent artists including Mark Hatt, Cindy Standage and Kathy Hussey. Dan is part of Nashville's acclaimed writing/performing consortium The Variety Pack, and can often be found playing tunes at random watering holes in Nashville and elsewhere. He’s hit the circuit as a finalist at festivals including the Gum Tree Festival in Tupelo, Mississippi, and the Riverbluff Acoustic Music Festival in Ashland City, Tennessee.

Dan has released four full-length CDs on his independent Ten Fish Music label--Separate Vacations (2005), So Romantic (2007), Wild Ideas (2010) and Where the Days are Golden (2011). So Romantic was named the Nashville Independent Music (NIM) organization's 2007 Album of the Year. The songwriter/singer’s imaginary autobiography Three Cuts and a Day Job is still a work in progress.