Deardorff — singer, songwriter, musician, producer, mythologist, author, storyteller and visual artist — died Sept. 19 of natural causes stemming from post-polio sequelae, said his partner, Judith-Kate Friedman. He was 67.
Deardorff began his career touring for Seals and Crofts as their opening act throughout the 1970s. Over the next 40 years he performed throughout the United States and Canada, in South and Central America and the United Kingdom, released duo and then solo albums and produced albums for dozens of artists including Tingstad and Rumbel, Jim Valley, Michael Tomlinson, and Tickle Tune Typhoon, organizers said.
A survivor of two kinds of polio from the age of 17 months who moved via a wheelchair, Deardorff also became a pioneer for the rights of persons with disabilities, organizers said. In 1977, he performed and spoke at the first ever White House Conference on Disability with President and First Lady Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
In the 1990s, when the effects of polio sequelae forced him to retire from the music business, Deardorff moved to Port Townsend, authored “Video Talk: The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche,” (North Atlantic Books), and eventually began to teach internationally.
He founded the Mythsinger Foundation and began offering courses in myth and ritual, hosting monthly story nights, and mentoring younger generation tellers.
In his last eight years, Deardorff combined music and digital technology as health changes limited his mobility and public appearances, organizers said.
He composed and recorded dozens of new songs and stories using an iPad home studio. These recordings include an album’s worth of unexpected covers of John Lennon songs (Blue Lennon), a collection of songs detailing Deardorff’s experience as a polio survivor (Polio: A Blues Album), and explorations into the poetry, music and duende of flamenco music and “deep song.”
A full-length concert video, “Love Dogs: An Evening with Daniel “3D” Deardorff and Judith-Kate Friedman” recorded live at Key City Public Theatre (Valentine’s Day 2015) will be the first of these yet-to-be-published projects to be released this spring.
For more information, or to make a tax-deductible contribution to the Mythsinger Legacy Fund, contact Friedman at [email protected] or 360-385-1160.
https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/entertainment/daniel-deardorff-remembered-in-memorials-this-weekend/
Deardorff began his career touring for Seals and Crofts as their opening act throughout the 1970s. Over the next 40 years he performed throughout the United States and Canada, in South and Central America and the United Kingdom, released duo and then solo albums and produced albums for dozens of artists including Tingstad and Rumbel, Jim Valley, Michael Tomlinson, and Tickle Tune Typhoon, organizers said.
A survivor of two kinds of polio from the age of 17 months who moved via a wheelchair, Deardorff also became a pioneer for the rights of persons with disabilities, organizers said. In 1977, he performed and spoke at the first ever White House Conference on Disability with President and First Lady Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
In the 1990s, when the effects of polio sequelae forced him to retire from the music business, Deardorff moved to Port Townsend, authored “Video Talk: The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche,” (North Atlantic Books), and eventually began to teach internationally.
He founded the Mythsinger Foundation and began offering courses in myth and ritual, hosting monthly story nights, and mentoring younger generation tellers.
In his last eight years, Deardorff combined music and digital technology as health changes limited his mobility and public appearances, organizers said.
He composed and recorded dozens of new songs and stories using an iPad home studio. These recordings include an album’s worth of unexpected covers of John Lennon songs (Blue Lennon), a collection of songs detailing Deardorff’s experience as a polio survivor (Polio: A Blues Album), and explorations into the poetry, music and duende of flamenco music and “deep song.”
A full-length concert video, “Love Dogs: An Evening with Daniel “3D” Deardorff and Judith-Kate Friedman” recorded live at Key City Public Theatre (Valentine’s Day 2015) will be the first of these yet-to-be-published projects to be released this spring.
For more information, or to make a tax-deductible contribution to the Mythsinger Legacy Fund, contact Friedman at [email protected] or 360-385-1160.
https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/entertainment/daniel-deardorff-remembered-in-memorials-this-weekend/
Deardorff — singer, songwriter, musician, producer, mythologist, author, storyteller and visual artist — died Sept. 19 of natural causes stemming from post-polio sequelae, said his partner, Judith-Kate Friedman. He was 67.
Deardorff began his career touring for Seals and Crofts as their opening act throughout the 1970s. Over the next 40 years he performed throughout the United States and Canada, in South and Central America and the United Kingdom, released duo and then solo albums and produced albums for dozens of artists including Tingstad and Rumbel, Jim Valley, Michael Tomlinson, and Tickle Tune Typhoon, organizers said.
A survivor of two kinds of polio from the age of 17 months who moved via a wheelchair, Deardorff also became a pioneer for the rights of persons with disabilities, organizers said. In 1977, he performed and spoke at the first ever White House Conference on Disability with President and First Lady Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
In the 1990s, when the effects of polio sequelae forced him to retire from the music business, Deardorff moved to Port Townsend, authored “Video Talk: The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche,” (North Atlantic Books), and eventually began to teach internationally.
He founded the Mythsinger Foundation and began offering courses in myth and ritual, hosting monthly story nights, and mentoring younger generation tellers.
In his last eight years, Deardorff combined music and digital technology as health changes limited his mobility and public appearances, organizers said.
He composed and recorded dozens of new songs and stories using an iPad home studio. These recordings include an album’s worth of unexpected covers of John Lennon songs (Blue Lennon), a collection of songs detailing Deardorff’s experience as a polio survivor (Polio: A Blues Album), and explorations into the poetry, music and duende of flamenco music and “deep song.”
A full-length concert video, “Love Dogs: An Evening with Daniel “3D” Deardorff and Judith-Kate Friedman” recorded live at Key City Public Theatre (Valentine’s Day 2015) will be the first of these yet-to-be-published projects to be released this spring.
For more information, or to make a tax-deductible contribution to the Mythsinger Legacy Fund, contact Friedman at [email protected] or 360-385-1160.
https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/entertainment/daniel-deardorff-remembered-in-memorials-this-weekend/
Deardorff began his career touring for Seals and Crofts as their opening act throughout the 1970s. Over the next 40 years he performed throughout the United States and Canada, in South and Central America and the United Kingdom, released duo and then solo albums and produced albums for dozens of artists including Tingstad and Rumbel, Jim Valley, Michael Tomlinson, and Tickle Tune Typhoon, organizers said.
A survivor of two kinds of polio from the age of 17 months who moved via a wheelchair, Deardorff also became a pioneer for the rights of persons with disabilities, organizers said. In 1977, he performed and spoke at the first ever White House Conference on Disability with President and First Lady Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
In the 1990s, when the effects of polio sequelae forced him to retire from the music business, Deardorff moved to Port Townsend, authored “Video Talk: The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche,” (North Atlantic Books), and eventually began to teach internationally.
He founded the Mythsinger Foundation and began offering courses in myth and ritual, hosting monthly story nights, and mentoring younger generation tellers.
In his last eight years, Deardorff combined music and digital technology as health changes limited his mobility and public appearances, organizers said.
He composed and recorded dozens of new songs and stories using an iPad home studio. These recordings include an album’s worth of unexpected covers of John Lennon songs (Blue Lennon), a collection of songs detailing Deardorff’s experience as a polio survivor (Polio: A Blues Album), and explorations into the poetry, music and duende of flamenco music and “deep song.”
A full-length concert video, “Love Dogs: An Evening with Daniel “3D” Deardorff and Judith-Kate Friedman” recorded live at Key City Public Theatre (Valentine’s Day 2015) will be the first of these yet-to-be-published projects to be released this spring.
For more information, or to make a tax-deductible contribution to the Mythsinger Legacy Fund, contact Friedman at [email protected] or 360-385-1160.
https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/entertainment/daniel-deardorff-remembered-in-memorials-this-weekend/
