Dan Corcoran is a local keyboardist/songwriter who has been performing blues, jazz and pop repertoires at restaurants, bars, weddings and music festivals in and around London for the past 37 years. He started playing for dances at public school auditoriums in 1971 following several piano competitions at the Kiwanis music festival in the late ‘60s.  He played trombone and tuba with the Catholic Central High School band including performances for the Pope in Rome and for other dignitaries across Europe. During high school and University he also performed and won entertainment competitions at the Brass Rail and played his way across Canada and busked on the streets of Vancouver.

                He has performed with Mettle, an experimental offshoot of the punk band Hard Ensemble which he co-founded, and the Demics. He also performed with Dogs On Parade and in solo performances at Home County Festival on acoustic pump organ. He helped form the Dry Eyes Blues Band, and later, Eddie and the Buttheads which performed at bars, weddings, private parties and corporate functions. He also entertained at restaurants and lounges with his daughter Daizy, performing blues/jazz piano arrangements follow the styling's of Canadian artists Diana Krall and Carol Wellsman. His favorite keyboardists and musical influences include Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Keith Jarret, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Oscar Peterson.

                He can now be heard playing with 'Blackrock', and occasionally at Thursday night blues jams at the London Music Club.