Daphne Willis - Dan Rodriguez (Billings, MT)

Daphne Willis - Dan Rodriguez

Thu April 7 - 7pm - 10adv 12door Daphne Willis Dan Rodriguez With Chicago roots and Texas ties Daphne Willis brings both musicality and grit to the songs she writes and plays. Born in San Antonio to a classically trained vocalist and audio engineer Daphne began singing at an early age and found her way to the guitar in high school. Since then she s developed the confidence melodic mastery and vocal range that have won her admirers from here to Beijing.Daphne didn t plan a career in music. But as a student at DePaul University in Chicago she found herself performing at open mic nights which led to regular Chicago gigs and eventually a decision to leave school and hit the road. So she assembled a band and began playing 200 shows a year across the United States. Daphne released her independent EP Matter of Time in September 2007 in a twist of fate Vanguard Records head Kevin Welk heard a track on an American Airlines flight....