Shaela Miller Performs at Ranchman's in Calgary I started this article a few weeks back before the West Anthem Report was released....

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-busking-street-performance-stephen-avenue-1.7206679 Taylor Braat recently interviewed me...

I'm off to see the Violent Femmes tonight in Calgary. I used to busk their most famous song "Blister in the Sun" a lot in the early days...

Two things drew me to move to Calgary from Ottawa: When I busked, the guitar case was fuller at the end of the day. Eau Claire Market...

Recently, Calgary announced the expansion design of its most prominent art space, Arts Commons. They're using the acronym ACT (Arts...

Busking is the art of performing in a public place for donations Busking has been around for a long time. I'm not going to bore you with...

Each month I gather musical and non-muscal act to come give the audience 20 minutes of material. I encourage the artists to take risks

My journey as a one-man band started in the spring of 1990. It was wasn't a decision based on attracting children, it based on economics....

10. You know the whole band is going to show up. 9. Dan provides great family friendly entertainment. 8. Dan has years of experience and...

For Cal. The year was 2003, Dave was a workaholic. He never wanted to go anywhere or do anything besides work. His wife Sherry had...

Here we are! After spending the last 3 1/2 years working for a tech start up company, I'm back to tooting my own horn as a full time...

Last year I released my first recording with young people in mind. It was no quick task, as I spent the last decade working on it, on and...

I first heard of Dave Kelly like everyone else. If you were in Calgary and you got up early and turned on the television in the 90's and...

Poetry in Calgary, Kirk Miles, Micheline Maylor, Sherri-D Wilson, Richard Harrison, The Governor General's Award.

A monthly variety show in Calgary Alberta called "The WhoKnows Variety Show".

Photo by David Bauer Last spring, I was asked to be a part of a variety show being hosted by Tim Tamashiro. He called it "The WhatNot...

In 1975, Johnny Cash recorded an album entitled "The Johnny Cash Children's Album". The first song on the LP was "Nasty Dan". I like...

As an elf, you can imagine it can be a pretty hectic time of year. It is a test of endurance. It’s the time when all the training is put...

Calgary Entertainer...Is that an oxymoron? As many of you know, I sing with a group called Revv52. I have been singing with them for over...

I guess a one-man band has to toot his own horn. No one else will. We're used to doing everthing ourselves. That's what I've always...