About

“DAWdust” is the nom de tune of Richard Hartnell, a multidisciplinary artist with roots on the US west coast and a saga of performances across a dozen countries.

Trained in music and playing house parties as a youth, Dawdust earned his first nightclub residency at Rumors Cabaret playing industrial, house, pop, and electronic dance music and soon earned a nomination as one of “Bellingham’s Best Spinners” in What’s Up! Magazine after expanding to his second, third, and fourth residencies.

His hunger for a wider variety of music carried him to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he was recruited from the dancefloor to the cocktail lounge as a resident DJ of the MUA Art Bar in uptown Oakland.

DAWdust’s festival repertoire covers the fire festivals of the West Coast and the star-studded tents of the European Juggling Convention, which hosted him year after year as it floated from Ireland to Holland to Poland to England.

During the most acute part of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dawdust set up his turntables in a home studio and started playing an eclectic blend of bass and chillout music on the streaming site Twitch.tv, quickly rising to the top 1% of streamers on the site.

From their DJ Deck profile.