Provided
the digital recording & mastering
of The Black Squirrels Of London. Dan
is a true Londoner and wanted to offer his services to
help make the song a reality. We had contacted other local
recording studios, but they did not have the excitement
Dan showed. The net result was a studio quality recording
we have on the web site and hope to have it playing on
the air waves.
Dan is a multi-talented musician, recording engineer, singer
and computer consultant. If your company needs any recording
for jingles, telephone messages, audio for web sites,
CD-ROM's - "Dan is the Man"
Dan
has the equipment to get the job done and is fully equipped
with his portable studio to handle anything you can imagine.
Dan Rutledge Studios www.DanRutledge.com 519-686-9278 (Please mention you heard our
song)
Dan
Rutledge – Music
Bio
In grade 4 he arranged to have a representative from
the local guitar studio come to meet his parents. Were
they
surprised!
Finally, there was a little blonde acoustic guitar for
Christmas. The following year this turned into a beautiful
Gibson L48
f-hole jazz guitar and then shortly afterward, it blossomed
into a ’58 Fender whiteneck Stratocaster. Music around
summer campfires drew so many hundreds of people that the
nearby dance hall complained until park officials shut
them down.
Then the bands: the Remingtons, Electras and the Traytors
who opened for the Turtles, McCoys (Hang on Sloopy), Bobby
Vee,
and Toronto’s Grant Smith and George Oliver. High
school concert bands led to European Tours including private
performances
and audiences with the Pope in Rome and the Queen Mother
in England. While in Europe, he sold his touring guitar
to a Swiss
traveller which raised a few dollars and a few eyebrows
at home. Instrumentation now also included trombone, clarinet,
string
base and fanfare trumpet. This led to playing with a marching
band at the half-time shows at college football games in
Ann Arbor Michigan.
Folk music then compelled the purchase of his first banjo and a chance to
jam with the Brewery Bay Singers. But the banjo had to be sold to pay for
a bigger
amplifier.
By now Dan was being regularly invited to recording sessions in
London and Toronto including sessions for the National
Film Board. A flood
of instruments
and bands followed, including the Common People and the Great Canadian Music
Company.
He took a few years off for family and
became very involved in church music and classical guitar lessons. After
doing liturgical music workshops throughout Southwestern Ontario he settled
into playing
string bass in the community symphony.
After crushing a finger bone in a scuba diving incident and a side trip to
Nashville, Dan turned to writing music as an opportunity to do something
more lasting. He
wrote and recorded a CD and book titled, ‘The Mass of St. Thérèse’.
This CD has been sold
throughout Canada and the United States and in 12 other
countries. Two more CD’s are near completion: one new country and one
religious. While he listens mostly to new country and old rock, he has always
enjoyed playing
a wide variety of music.
He has served on the
board of directors for a United Way sponsored charity and
has worked extensively with United Way. Besides playing in 3 groups, he
has
a digital
recording studio and in his spare time he is an avid canoe tripper, scuba
diver, cyclist and runs 32 kilometers per week. He is also a web master
and invites
you to visit his site at www.massofsttherese.com
