Daniel Donato Brings Cosmic Country to Cleveland

Daniel Donato brings Cosmic Country to Cleveland for an evening of improvisational country rock. A guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Donato founded the band as a vehicle for a sound he describes as a mix of roadhouse twang, crunchy rock and roll, improvisational fireworks, and psychedelia. His deep roots in Nashville's honky-tonk scene — years busking on the street followed by a long residency at Robert's Western World — feed a live approach built on interplay and extended jams.

At a typical show, the band stretches out for three hours or more, mixing covers of country, outlaw country, R&B/soul, and rock classics with Donato's honky-tonk inspired originals and songs written by bandmates McGee and Aronowitz. The touring schedule is relentless — more than 150 shows a year — and the live stage is where Donato's Cosmic Country vision is said to come into full focus. For fans of guitar-driven improvisation, this is a chance to hear a player who came up through Nashville's honky-tonk circuit.