About the Artist

Dana Maragos returns to Hey Nonny with a full band featuring Unimaginable Things (Sept 2024), her 4th studio release. She’ll be joined by a core team of stellar musicians, revered regionally and nationally, with whom she records: Brian Wilkie, producer, guitar and pedal steel guitar master, John Abbey on bass and Gerald Dowd on drums.
Unimaginable songs are acoustic guitar-based roots and a blend of old and new folk with textures of pedal steel guitar, traces rock with electric, lap steel guitar, Hammond B3 and acoustic layers of guitars, mandolin and Dobro. Sharp lyrics will draw you into conversations and stories.

About: Her grandmother bought her a $25 guitar in Chicago’s Old Town when she was 6 years old. She spent her early years in south Chicago, singing and playing at a teenage neighbor’s vibrantly acoustic bathroom, learning how to apply eyeliner (after all, it was the 60’s) and playing Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Eric Andersen songs. She began writing poems in 2nd grade for her mother and wrote her first song at 14. After graduating from Libertyville High School and U of I, and as a stint as the GM at WPGU-FM, she worked as a cable tv “gypsy” living in the south, northeast and west before moving back to Chicago. A southside Chicago native, she lives on the city’s north side. Church choir is part of her routine.​