The curtain goes up the lights go on - onto the stage steps the next acoustic prophet of Rock and Soul.

Dann Russo pours rock, blues, country, gospel and every other type of real down-home music into his performance like the sweat that pours from his brow. He doesn't strum - he beats his guitar, wrenching emotion out of it. He doesn't sing - he energizes crowds with his sometimes gruff, sometimes gravelly, sometimes sweet voice.

Backed by The Whisky, a harmony-violin-guitar-drum-keyboard-driven group of five, Dann is a force to be reckoned with, a "soon to be phenomenon" (NorthEast In-Tune Magazine) with "rock-and-roll abandon" (Newark, NJ Star-Ledger).

As a solo performer and with The Whisky, Dann has become a regular in clubs, coffeehouses and theaters of Boston and New York.

As "Dann Numbers" on the wildly popular world of "Second Life" (http://www.secondife.com) Dann has become one of the more popular acts in-world, complete with over-filling venues and crashing servers! These shows' locations are listed as "other" on the calendar at http://www.sonicbids.com/dannrusso and are Pacific Time, streaming from the confines of his basement to computer speakers around the world. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.