Dan Mangan is a two-time JUNO Award-winning and three-time Polaris Music Prize-nominated musician andsongwriter. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with his wife and two sons. Mangan has toured extensively inNorth America, Europe & Australia. He hasplayed Glastonbury & Jimmy Kimmel Live, collaborated with David Grohl,sold out Massey Hall and scored acclaimed soundtracks for television (Netflix, AMC) and feature films. In 2017, heco-founded Side Door, a community marketplace platform for the arts that seeks to democratize and decentralize theentertainment industry by allowing non-traditional spaces to be venues.

Mangan’s 6th album, ‘Being Somewhere’, released in October 2022 and produced by Drew Brown (Radiohead,Beck), is an album that unfurls like an overdue conversation with a dear friend. It’s a combative plea for mercy from amanic world and its effects on the psyche. Forging sonics well beyond the tropes of modern folk music, the albumfeatures a global cadre of top tier musicians includingJoey Waronker (Beck, Atoms for Peace), Jason Falkner (Beck,St. Vincent), Thomas Bartlett (The National, Taylor Swift), Dave Okumu (Arlo Parks, Adele) Mary Lattimore (Kurt Vile,Sharon Van Etten), & Broken Social Scene frontman Kevin Drew.

“He sings withthe soul of Woody Guthrie–if Woody Guthrie had listened to Godspeed (You! Black Emperor)”–NME

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