Nico Dann has been playing drums and percussion for 10 years. Born in 1983 in Amsterdam to Canadian parents, he began playing music at an early age. In 2001 Nico began studying drums with world-renowned teacher Jim Blackley. From 2002 to 2006 Nico lived in Montreal while earning a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance at McGill University. During this time he studied with many excellent musicians including Remi Bolduc, Chris McCann and Michel Lambert. Since 2003, Nico has been playing in professional groups at venues in and around Toronto and Montreal. These have included, in Montreal, the Upstairs Jazz Club and in Toronto, the Distillery Jazz Festival in 2005. Nico’s various groups have included jazz ensembles, rock and funk bands, an African drumming ensemble and a latin band. In the in the summer of 2006 Nico was a participant in the Banff Summer Program for Jazz and Creative Music. There he studied and played with world class musicians Gene Lake, Clarence Penn, Marcus Strickland and Dave Douglas.
In the last three years, Nico has begun to perform more internationally. Notable engagements with bands ranging from Modern Jazz to Indie-Rock include the Boston Pride festival of 2004, and the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the Jazz Bar in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan, NY; all in the summer of 2006.
Nico currently lives in Toronto where he continues to be an active performer and teacher in the local music scene.
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Hey Nico, I'm playing in Toronto on may 28th at Horseshoe tavern, I would like to see you there, I put you on the guest list and give you some drinks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell me if you can come, you will like the music!!!
take care, I miss you, Montreal is not the same without you!!!!
Eric
don't worry, your secret is safe with me. i won't tell anyone about your new cymbal. don't worry.
shall we party this weekend? i know of a "spice girls" themed party on friday, at which steve and i are planning to wear mint and basil loincloths, respectively. interested? meh, i'll see you at l'utopik tomorrow. byeeeeeee!!!
How are things in Toronto? I hope splendiferous...or some silly word like that:)
I'm great, it's been an "all over the place" few months...I worked for my parents for a few months, went to kenya, came back and got my wilderness EMT & now I'm headed to Colorado and then to Rwanda to be a nanny for a bit...crazy eh? Tell me about you!
hey nico,
so i'm thinking of hitting up tdot on my way back from visiting my grandma and on my way to practicing with no phone before we record. is it cool if i crash chez toi for a couple days? and you wanna figure out some way of getting to montreal together?
Hey Nico, so i heard you were moving to boston, then i heard you weren't moving to boston. So where are you living now?
Also, why do i keep getting add requests from you?
