Dawn Landes

Dawn Landes is a Louisville, Kentucky-born, New York City-based musician who performs under her own name. She is also a sometimes-member of the band Hem, where she has lent her voice to harmony vocals, and plays glockenspiel. She has worked as an audio engineer at Stratosphere Sound in New York City and at Philip Glass’ own personal recording studio. She has shared the stage with artists such as Josh Ritter, Suzanne Vega, Jose Gonzalez, Feist, The Weakerthans, Andrew Bird, Midlake, Alexi Murdoch and many others.

As a solo artist, Landes has put out three records:

Dawn’s Music (self-released-US/Ocean Music-Europe) 2002
two, three, four (Boy Scout recordings-UK) 2006
Fireproof (Cooking Vinyl-US/Fargo Music-Europe) 2008
Having released Fireproof in March 2008, Landes is actively touring to support its release. She has been enjoying much critical success[2] and has done a variety of radio performance including NPR’s World Cafe. Landes has made videos for two songs from Fireproof: one for «Bodyguard» in which Juna Drougas and Ray Rizo costar and another music video for «Twilight».

Two of her songs, «Kissing Song» and «You Alone», are featured in the 2005 film Winter Passing. «Kissing Song» was played during the ending credit.

She also contributed a song for the closing credits of the 2008 film Savage Grace.

The Song «Straight Lines» was used in an episode of the Showtime series United States of Tara.

The song «Drive» was used in the «Under My Skin» episode of the fifth season of the Fox series «House, M.D.»