Dan Rosenberg is a journalist, artistic director of the Scarborough Folk Festival (in Toronto), publicist and music producer who has worked on over 100 albums since the 1990s, using music to shine a light on human rights abuses.
Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango (which won the German Weltmusikpreis in 2024, as well as a Canadian Folk Music Award and Album of the Year at Folk Music Ontario) tells the story of women who were Holocaust survivors, and the long term trauma they still face as a result of their childhoods spent in war zones.
He is currently working on the music/human rights project with Marichka, Daughters of Donbas – Songs of Stolen Children, which deals with the ~20,000 Ukrainian children that have been abducted from occupied regions in Eastern Ukraine and taken to Russia.
Rosenberg also produced the Grammy nominated album Yiddish Glory, the Lost Songs of World War II, which resurrected music written by Holocaust victims and survivors. Prior to that, he did more than 60 albums for the Rough Guide to World Music CD series.
He has also reported about music for numerous publications and radio shows, including the Peabody Award winning Afropop Worldwide, CBC News, NPR’s Artbeat, Cafe International, The Times (UK), The Rough Guides and more.
As a publicist, Rosenberg has worked on Juno-Award winning albums by Lenka Lichtenberg, OKAN, Jeremy Ledbetter, Hilario Duran as well as Canadian Folk Music Award winning albums by Kiran Ahluwalia and Kune: Canada’s Global Orchestra.