DAGMAR: BIO

DAGMAR (the band)

DAGMAR free-folk duo Jim Bauer and Meghan McGeary have been singing and playing together since 2001, when McGeary joined the cast of Bauer's then nascent, today fully developed and still active theatrical song cycle "THE BLUE FLOWER".

Bauer writes the music and lyrics, sings, and plays guitar, keyboards and computers. McGeary sings and plays assorted percussion, ukelele, melodica, flute and accordion.

Bauer lives in Boston, McGeary in New York City, and they skitter back and forth.

They started DAGMAR in 2005, and presented DAGMAR in its first public performance as a 6-piece band at Joe's Pub in New York City on June 25.

They've played the rock/folk small club scene in Boston (Lizard Lounge, Toad, Middle East, Bulfinch Yacht Club, Cantab, Mercury Lounge, The Church) and New York (Joe's Pub, The Knitting Factory, CBGB's, Arlene's Grocery, The Cutting Room, Galapagos Art Space, The Living Room).

Since 2007 they have been playing almost exclusively as a duo in the subways of New York under the MTA's "Music Under New York" (MUNY) banner. As they've carefully calculated, they play to over 6,000 different people every hour. In 2009 they'll begin hitting the streets and subways of Boston/Cambridge/Somerville.

"Door No. 1", their first CD introducing the 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, was self-released in September 2006. Joining Bauer and McGeary on the recording are David Rozenblatt (drums), Pablo Rieppi (percussion), Mat Fieldes (bass), and Vessko Gellev (violin).

"Door No. 2", the second CD, a duo album with Bauer and McGeary covering all the bases, was self-released in April 2009. It takes the transmogrifying song cycle from the surreal to the real, tracking Dagmar on its misadventures from "here to where", as their homespun video documentary series on YouTube is called.

"Door No. 3" is under way, and is rumored to be a dance party record.