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landes the debut concert of bryan ferry 's north american stop in of his world tour 2014 , for which she was september the special guest -lrb- opening act -rrb- 2014 , posing in chicago after the bandana splits , hem western touch vinyl , cooking vinyl , fargo , tummy solo_singer dawn , sunday , 21 september 2014 -lrb- 15130556730 -rrb- . landes jpg , chicago theater , chicago , il dawn landes
 dawn landes / dawn landes singer-songwriter , record producer , multi-instrumentalist , glockenspiel player , sound engineer
dawn landes

dawn landes -lrb- also dawn landes -rrb- -lrb- born december 5 , 1980 -rrb- is an american singer-songwriter and musician .
she is originally from around louisville , kentucky , having claimed on stage as having been born in southern indiana , but has been for many years a brooklyn , new york transplant , having arrived as a new york university undergraduate student .
as a recording artist she has released five full-length albums : `` dawn 's music '' -lrb- 2005 -rrb- , `` two three four '' -lrb- 2006 -rrb- , `` fireproof '' -lrb- 2008 -rrb- , `` sweetheart rodeo '' -lrb- 2010 -rrb- , and `` bluebird '' -lrb- 2014 -rrb- and two eps : `` straight lines '' -lrb- 2006 -rrb- and `` mal habillée '' -lrb- 2012 -rrb- .
in support of her releases , landes has toured extensively in the us , europe and around the world , often sharing the stage with artists such as ray lamontagne , feist , andrew bird , josé gonzález , the weakerthans , midlake and suzanne vega .
as an instrumentalist , she plays the glockenspiel with the new york city american roots music band hem .
a producer and engineer , she has worked at stratosphere sound in new york city and at philip glass ' own personal recording studio .
in 2009 landes helped found saltlands studio in brooklyn , ny .
she has collaborated with contemporaries like justin townes earle , will oldham and josh ritter in the studio .
her songs have been featured in popular films and tv shows , including `` bored to death '' , `` skins '' , `` house '' , `` gossip girl '' and `` united states of tara '' .
she composed original scores for two feature films `` blackbird '' and `` familiar strangers '' and wrote the end credit song for `` savage grace '' starring julianne moore .
landes has appeared with the american songbook series , boston pops and in 2012 with the nyc ballet at the lincoln center for the new benjamin millepied ballet `` two hearts '' singing a ballad entitled `` the brown girl '' as part of composer nico muhly 's score .
in june 2012 , she released `` mal habillée , '' a collection of original french songs in the style of ye-ye .
it features guest vocals by matthew caws -lrb- nada surf -rrb- and tunde adebimpe -lrb- tv on the radio -rrb- and an interactive ebook with illustrations by the artist danica novgorodoff to accompany the text .
in february 2014 , she released `` bluebird '' .
landes is a member of all-girl trio the bandana splits .
landes was married to musician josh ritter , with whom she also toured .
