DAGMAR (the band)
DAGMAR, started in New York City in 2005, is the collaboration of singer/songwriter JIM BAUER and singer/actor MEGHAN McGEARY. Having met when McGeary joined the cast of Bauer's then-nascent, now fully-developed musical play THE BLUE FLOWER, they set out together on a trip from "here to wherever" to create and perform a "meta-folk" song cycle about a guy who can't get out of bed in the morning and an insect goddess who plunges through the ether to rescue him. After releasing three albums on Bauer's own Pontoon Records ("Door No. 1" 2006, "Door No. 2" 2009, and "Door No. 3" 2010) and performing in the clubs, streets and subways of New York City and Boston, MA for, as they call them, "people in motion", they are now collaborating with U.K. producer ROBBIE BRONNIMAN and drummer/percussionist DAVID ROZENBLATT on a "folktronica" setting of the songs that will be the foundation for a full multi-media theatrical show called "DAGMAR: EXO", with the first developmental production of the show planned for 2012. The roughly 90-minute stage show will morph organically from comedy, tragedy, love, loss and redemption to an ecstatic dance party for audience and cast alike, also fueled by DAGMAR folktronica tracks and a VJ.
MEMBERS: Jim Bauer (music, lyrics, guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals) Meghan McGeary (vocals, melodica, hand percussion, mandolin) David Rozenblatt (drums, mallets, percussion)
FORMED: 2005
GENRE: "free-folk", "meta-folk", "folktronica"
1st PERFORMANCE: June 25, 2005; Joe's Pub, NYC
1st ALBUM RELEASED: "Door No. 1"; September 2006 (self-released; Pontoon Records)
2nd ALBUM RELEASED: "Door No. 2"; April, 2009 (self-released; Pontoon Records)
3rd ALBUM RELEASED: "Door No. 3"; Sept, 2010 (currently available through direct purchase only)
Pontoon Records was established in 2006 by friends and collaborators Jim Bauer (Music Director), Pete Brevis (Idea Man), and Lars Onga (Numbers Guy) in response to climate change (specifically, global warming), the disintegration of American political and cultural life since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, and the inevitability of the end of the world as we know it. As a concept, Pontoon Records fosters the fervent hope and earnest expectation that alternative art can provide possible solutions for and avenues of escape from a world in pain, heydy-ho.
DAGMAR on YouTube
DAGMAR on i-Tunes
THE BLUE FLOWER official website