With a voice like a mountain stream and a suitcase of tunes for people of all ages, Daniel Mckell sings from the heart about the everyday wonders of our ever-changing and surprising world.

His songs carry the droning, circular quality of a Buddhist meditation, incorporating percussive found sounds from babbling brooks and Canada geese. His guitar playing threads together fine fingerpicked gentleness with pushed-out power chords, while his soft swinging tenor voice strikes a silly, speedy staccato. Lyrically he is just as likely to tickle your belly button as he is to wrap a blanket around hard times, spinning yarns that send prayers up in soap bubbles.

Daniel hails from the Chateauguay Valley region of Québec and has spent over 20 years in music — leading and playing in bands including the 90's punk trio Tiny Green Specks and, as guitar-picking, kazoo-tooting tenor, Lake of Stew — winner of a Mimi Award (Montreal's independent music awards) and nominated for a GAMIQ Award (2009) and a Canadian Folk Music Award (2012, for an album made with Old Man Luedecke). He's released several albums, EPs, and singles under his own name, and currently writes and sings in the alt folk-rock band Fieldstone Reverie.

His songs have been touted as "comedic, fantastical works of art, never once following any sort of standard formula for songwriting" (Roots Music Canada), and his live performances — solo or with a full band — are noted for being entertaining and eclectic without shying away from introspection. He's shared stages at festivals including the Ormstown Branches and Roots Folk Music Festival and Artswells Festival. Over the years he's also shared stages with artists including Bruce Murdoch, Ken Whiteley, The Durham County Poets, Annabelle Chvostek, and Julie Doiron.

His new full-length acoustic album, What Stands Before Thee, is set for release in Autumn 2026 .