Dan Treanor and the Crew

 Dan Treanor was raised in Pueblo, Colorado and began playing guitar at fifteen. Discovering Blues and R&B music he developed a life long passion for the root of all popular American Music - THE BLUES.  Listening to the likes of Ray Charles, B.B. King, Jimmy Reed and Slim Harpo, Dan tried to emulate their playing style.  By the age of sixteen, with his Silvertone guitar, he was playing in his first band - "The Steel City Blues Band".  In 1969, while serving as an infantryman in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, he was taught to play the harmonica by a fellow soldier and musician, Bernie Willer. 🎶 🎸 Dan has toured Europe twice and represented the Grand County Blues Society two times and the Colorado Blues Society twice at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. He is a charter member of the Colorado Blues Society and the Blues Foundation, and has received several awards from various Blues Societies in recognition of his Blues In The Schools contributions. He is the recipient of the KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE award from the Blues Foundation. In 2023 he was given a ‘Life Time Achievement’ award by the Colorado Blues Society. 🎶 🎸  In 2004 Dan was signed by the internationally respected independent label - Northern Blues. Teaming with the late R&B vocal legend Frankie Lee, of Duke/Peacock fame, he released the critically acclaimed CD - "African Wind".  The CD was named by critics as one of the top blues releases of the year and was nominated as Blues Album of the Year by the Independent Music Awards. The title track - "African Wind" - was named one of the top eight blues songs of the year by the International Songwriting Competition, and features Dan's handmade African string instruments. He began to make the instruments to use in his Blues In The Schools presentations to demonstrate the origins of the blues in African cultural music. They soon became an integral part of his live show and Afrosippi Blues was born. African and World beats, Delta, Chicago and Hill Country Blues, R&B, Funk and Soul  mixed together to create the Afrosippi Sound. 🎶 🎸  Dan continues to play festivals, club gigs and special shows  -  as a band, duo, trio, and solo artist. Dan also does 25-30 Blues In The Schools presentations a year, receiving the Blues Foundation’s - Keeping The Blues Alive - award for his Blues In The Schools program.