Dayna Kurtz

McGonigel’s Mucky Duck presents Dayna Kurtz at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 16, 2016.

Dayna Kurtz is a New Jersey-born, New Orleans-based singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer.

The Washington Post called her voice “a deep-hued garnet of lifeblood and beauty,” while L.A. Weekly rhapsodized, “Kurtz tilts her head back at an angle and spins melodic, earthbound poetry that sets loose demons only to dismiss them into the ether… Kurtz makes ordinary misery voluptuous.”  The Boston Globe stated, “There’s no logical reason why Dayna Kurtz is not a full-blown star,” star,” and prominent Dutch op-ed writer Frits Abrahams recently referred to her as the “female Dylan.”

A restless musical truth-seeker whose ongoing pursuit of inspiration has led her to follow her creative muse in unexpected and rewarding directions, Kurtz has spent the past decade and a half building a powerful body of recordings on her own uncompromising terms.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/daynakurtz