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D’Amato first emerged to international acclaim with the 2014 release of ‘The Shipwreck From The Shore,’ his New West Records debut. Inspired in part by time spent studying with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon, the album garnered rave reviews on both sides of the pond, with NPRinviting D’Amato for a Tiny Desk Concert and lauding that “he writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter,” and Uncutproclaiming that his songwriting “echoes with early Bob Dylan.” D’Amato followed it up in 2016 with the Mike Mogis-produced ‘Cold Snap,’ which landed him his first national TV appearance along with an Artist You Need To Know nod from Rolling Stone, who hailed his “folk music raised on New Jersey grit.” In response to mounting humanitarian crises overseas and at our own southern border, D’Amato returned the following year with a collaborative charity EP titled ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,’ which featured contributions from Josh Ritter and Nickel Creek’s Sean Watkins among others, and has raised more than $7,000 for refugee aid to date. Songs from D’Amato’s solo albums, meanwhile, racked up more than eight million streams on Spotify alone and landed him headline and festival performances in the US, Europe, and Australia, as well as support dates with Ben Folds, Valerie June, Shovels & Rope, The Old 97’s, The Felice Brothers, Tyler Childers, Langhorne Slim, and more.
