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Dave Von Bieker

Indie folk to haunt your heart with small stories and big questions.

This Song Just Got Way Sadder

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This Song Just Got Way Sadder

All New Dumb Hope To Hear Today

dumb hope album Featured

All New Dumb Hope To Hear Today

everytime you go away Featured

You'll Laugh, We'll Cry - NEW VIDEO OUT TODAY!

Adventures With My Slightly-Less-Small-Tones

Adventures With My Slightly-Less-Small-Tones

My new song with Lindsey Walker is out TODAY!

It's taken months for singer-songwriter Lindsey Walker and I to finish our cover of a mutual favourite 80s tune, Everytime You Go Away. Partly, this song took its time because of the months those were - holidays and training-away and moving and ... well that'd be enough. Throw in a bunch

Andy Warhol and Three Songs for Easter

Andy Warhol and Three Songs for Easter

Picture of me in a colourful room with a googly eye on my forehead.

Reflection Featured

Many Things Many Places All At Once

I Pay Good Money to Be Judged (Awards Season Secrets)

I Pay Good Money to Be Judged (Awards Season Secrets)

I Need Your Dumb Hope

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I Need Your Dumb Hope

Performing at Arcadia on Saturday night

Money, Gains and Growing Pains

Hear My New Album (So Far)

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Hear My New Album (So Far)

I’m Digging Out Religious Shrapnel

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I’m Digging Out Religious Shrapnel

Religious moments and teachings – set by others and left to detonate – have left shrapnel deep under my skin.

Folk Alliance FOMO and You Can't Do Everything

Folk Alliance FOMO and You Can't Do Everything

Goodbye Patreon, Hello Backstage

Goodbye Patreon, Hello Backstage

Today marks my months-in-the-making transition away from Patreon to my own community of supporters – Von Bieker Backstage. Why the switch? The short answer is that Patreon has become burdensome and limited for me, while taking a cut of my support and not offering much control over the user experience. When

Will You Still Love Me? (Full EP) 📀

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Music Library Featured

Will You Still Love Me? (Full EP) 📀

Peggy's Cove sunset

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My Big Dumb Goals for 2023

Every year I sit back, take stock and set a general roadmap for the days ahead. Then I get a little lost on the way. Which is fine. I consider these goals the hope I need to keep moving forward. Occasionally, I get where I'm going. Often I get somewhere

Thunder Cove shoreline, PEI

How I Won and Lost in 2022

As It Was (early listen) 🎵

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As It Was (early listen) 🎵

Bailen at Edmonton Folk Fest 2022

Sonic Surprises at Edmonton Folk Fest

I just got back from a massive Edmonton Folk Fest and I made some wonderful music discoveries. Here are some songs that caught my ear from the stage. Face Down In The Moment Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats I knew S.O.B. – the crowd-shout-party-anthem that put Rateliff on the

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Run Slow 🎵

Summer Song (early demo)🎵

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Summer Song (early demo)🎵

Nothing At All (early demo) 🎵

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Nothing At All (early demo) 🎵

Song Story 9 - I Hope You're Home by Emmet Michael

Song Story 9 - I Hope You're Home by Emmet Michael

Powered by RedCircle In this Song Story, I chat with Edmonton Music Prize winner Emmet Michael about feeling far from home in his own community and his own body. Growing up queer and trans Emmet learned self-hatred from a faith tradition that was supposed to offer unconditional love. After a

grove of Aspen trees

Song Story 8 - In The Long Run by Ryan Carnduff

Radio (early demo) 🎵

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Radio (early demo) 🎵