ABOUT ME

Daniel Tedford is a music teacher, touring performer and freelance session musician.

Daniel’s start in music began at seven years old, learning classical violin and picking up Irish folk tunes by ear from his father’s band. At 12 years old Daniel turned to guitar and with a growing passion of rock and pop composition, at 14 Daniel started writing songs solo and for bands. The first of his writing projects fully realised in his last year of high school with a band called CMYK Love.

At the time of tertiary study of music composition Daniel started to teach instrumental music and theory, which has remained a long lasting passion along side his performance career.

Joining the Klezmer band Lark gave Tedford the opportunity to level up, learning mandolin and arranging much of the Klezmer, surf rock and video game music.

In 2012 the remnants of the disbanded Lark would reassemble into The Willie Wagtails, a Trad-jazz Australiana folk act. It was in this band that Daniel found his niche for multi-instrumental duties, filling various roles (violin, mandolin, tenor banjo) as the line up would change. 

Over the years other groups such as Brick, Pourparlour, 8Foot Felix, Ice Cream in A Mug and Rhythm Kitchen have given opportunities to perform local events, as well as tour nationally and internationally. 

Since 2019 he has been the guitarist of GOGOGOGO (formerly known as Ogopogo) - a surf rock disco freak-out experience. They are due to release their debut album in 2021.

Daniel’s most recent release has been a long-awaited debut album ‘EGOBOO’ - the culmination of 3 years of slow recording work between projects and travel, it is an album rich with high production value, arranged with strings and brass throughout rock-pop writing.

‘EGOBOO’ is available now on Bandcamp.