Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, Joni Mitchell, Nanci Griffith, Over the Rhine, Iron & Wine
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The Waking Hours is a six song EP with elements of folk, alt country, and rock, produced by Jeff Hiatt (The Lowlands, Johnny Miles) at Turtle Studios in Old City and includes collaborations between Dawn Iulg and singer/songwriter Kyle Swartzwelder, guitarist Carl Cheeseman (Joshua Park, The Spinning Leaves), Andrew Keenan (Citizens Band Radio, Hezekiah Jones), Fred Berman (Amos Lee), members of The Lowlands, and singers Adrien Reju and Andrew Lipke
Born to a family of musicians and race car drivers, Dawn grew up singing in church in Western New York. The family eventually resettled to the farmland of Southern New Jersey outside Philadelphia. After finishing college Dawn relocated to New York City where she began writing and performing original songs. Dawn taught inner city middle school students in New York, was a nanny in Chicago, and cared for orphans in Guatemala.
Since returning to Philadelphia Dawn has gone on to perform sold out shows at Philadelphia's premier listening room, The Tin Angel, as well as performances at World Cafe Live, The Bethlehem Musik Fest, and The Kimmel Center.
The album "The Waking Hours" has received regular airplay on WXPN 88.5, been featured as XPN's "Pick of the Day" and featured on 93.7 WSTW Hometown Heroes.
Dawn Iulg was a winner of the 2008 Philadelphia Songwriters Project Songwriting Contest and is currently a finalist in the 2009 Philadelphia Songwriters Project Songwriting Contest
Her music is dark yet hopeful. Her lyrics are personal yet inviting. She is both yearning and sincere. She has a vocal range, strength, and vulnerability like Patty Griffin or Emmylou Harris and the ability to rock like Lucinda Williams.
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