About me
Derek Fawcett has shared stages with Peter Frampton, Ben Folds, America, Lifehouse, Pat Benatar, Colin Hay, Gin Blossoms, Blues Traveler, and backed up Chance The Rapper at Lollapalooza. Across five albums with Down The Line, and three as a soloist, he has toured across much of the U.S. and parts of Canada, Europe, and South Africa. The Chicago Tribune has called Derek’s music "...austere singer-songwriter stuff of surpassing grace." His most recent releases as a soloist and collaborator have netted more than two million streams. Of his performance in Hands On A Hardbody (written by Phish’s Trey Anastasio), Chris Jones wrote: "...Derek Fawcett...give(s) the show its zest and its emotional core.". Derek has been recognized for Excellence in Teaching and several of his students have received Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards. He is Adjunct Music Faculty in the Songwriting and Vocal Performance programs at NYU, and works with 501c3 songwriter advocacy group MusicAnswers: leading their outreach and research efforts and hosting The MusicAnswers Podcast. He is a member of both the Jazz Education Network (JEN) and The Association for Popular Music Education (APME) and has presented at their annual conferences. He holds a Bachelor’s of Music in Jazz Studies from Western Michigan University and a Master’s of Songwriting from NYU.
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