Like many others of his generation, Dave Schaper was listening to the radio of the mid-sixties to early seventies. The music of The Beatles, Byrds and Beach Boys filled the airwaves. Growing up near Houston, Texas also meant exposure to country, Tex-Mex, blues…and the fine tradition of Texas troubadours.

Picking up the guitar in his early twenties, Dave picked up songs by Eagles, Jimmy Buffett and Dan Fogelberg as well as local music by Shake Russell, Rusty Wier and Willis Alan Ramsay.

A Colorado resident now for many years, Dave’s Texas roots still run deep, continuing to be inspired by the story telling of Lyle Lovett, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark and many others.

Dave's songs have appeared on CDs by Sandy Reay, Bill Barwick, Reckless Abandon, and the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society. He was a finalist in the Walnut Valley New Songs Showcase.

Sandstorm Rooftop Concert Sept 5 2021 (photo by Terry Georgia)

2016

David East and Dave Schaper at the Briarwood in Golden June 2015

David East and Dave Schaper, Fall Festival, Monument, Oct. 2010 (photo by Adrian Swenson)

with David East at the Warhorse, Spring 2007 (photos by S. L. Reay)

on stage at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival Winfield, Kansas with Steve McCartney and Bill Barwick (upper left) with Pat Barrett and Sandy Reay (upper right)         with Sandy Reay and Ernie Martinez   at Celtic Crossing      with Mary Beth and Hal Bird at Celtic Crossing with Chris Woods, the Usual Suspects

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