"A dynamo with a brass-plated voice"     
                              - Los Angeles Times

Addi McDaniel is a NYC based performer, writer and composer. Hailed as "a dynamo with a brass-plated voice" by the Los Angeles Times, she has performed original work at National Sawdust, The Apollo, BAM Café, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, Rockwood Music Hall, Highline Ballroom and WNYC's Greenespace. She co-founded the genre-bending duo Addi & Jacq with harpist Jacqueline Kerrod, which would go on to be crowned the “Best Emerging Band in New York” by WNYC. As an actress she has performed leading roles in productions at Arena Stage, South Coast Rep, The Guthrie, North Shore Music Theater and played Luisa in The Fantasticks Off-Broadway. She is currently developing a musical with Dawn Cantwell called Hiraeth.