Daniel Bachman is an artist, musician, and independent scholar primarily interested in the folk histories of Virginia. Bachman has released fifteen full length records since 2011, and toured extensively internationally and throughout the US, garnering wide acclaim. Select performances include the NPR Tiny Desk Concert, Pitchfork Festival, and Solid Sound Festival, as well as a New York Climate Week exhibit at the Empire State Plaza, NY State Capitol, and a 2026 Yale Institute of Sacred Music screening of his new film “The Witness Tree”. In recent years Bachman has abandoned a rigorous touring schedule to explore multimedia projects centered on Virginia’s long history of settler colonialism and how it relates to contemporary climate breakdown. He currently lives in the Shenandoah Blue Ridge mountains, Madison County, Virginia, with his partner Aldona Dye and their cat, Little Baby.