Dana Immanuel

Dana Immanuel

Dana Immanuel is a UK-based singer-songwriter associated with folk and country, and known for playing guitar and banjo. She begins by busking on the London Underground after a route that includes occasional employment and playing in bands, and this work shapes her performance skills.

Based in North London, she performs both as a solo act and with other musicians, often in public music shows with a rotating group of collaborators, many of whom are Greek. Her solo sets feature guitar or banjo, played one at a time, and she also works with the five-piece all-female Dana Immanuel & the Stolen Band.

Her playing is linked in her own account to early childhood trauma, which leads her towards the banjo. She is also described as a whiskey-drinking, poker-playing singer-songwriter.