About Us

Welcome everyone!

Many years of experience in the music business along with an ongoing desire for musical creativity, an insatiable love of performing, and a passion for creating and promoting original music has led Kimberly Baskerville and Dan Hare to create Dawn Haze Music (DHM). The primary goal of DHM is to publish and promote original music from Dan and Kim, The March Hare Band and other gifted and featured writer/performers. DHM will also provide more accessibility and information about their musical pursuits, career direction, live performances, history, and even some behind the scenes info and insights. This will be done in conjunction with the March Hare show band that continues to perform at corporate functions and casinos but it will be broader in scope and include a focus on developing and promoting original music for radio and publication as well as providing greater and easier access to CDs, information, merchandise and related products and services.

DHM provides access to Dan and Kim's extensive experience and resource base by offering services that include artist coaching and assessment, performance development, understanding music for the professional, etc. This will be done initially by private sessions and include written assessment if desired. Email Dan or Kim for more details.

Check back often to see what's new and feel free to email with any questions or comments.

Dan Hare is talent, passion and experience, a natural talent second to none whose love for entertaining is contagious. His high, crisp vocals and powerful, polished guitar playing are always a crowd pleaser. Many years of experience have made Dan an entertainer extraordinaire who is confidently impressive on any size stage.

Having performed literally thousands of shows over the years, Dan is trained and polished in rock guitar and voice. He has also successfully managed and booked the band for well over twenty years. For ten years, Dan, along with his partner, owned and operated a PA and Lighting Company (Omega Sound) doing live sound for many bands. In the 80s, the band Exodus, which he started with his brother Bob, had radio play with their single "Forever and a Day." At that time Dan also trained in studio recording and after many years has revived his recording skills in the digital age. Other pursuits took Dan to an acting course, video shoots, studio work, CD recording, a stand up comedy course, martial arts training, and many TV appearances with the band.

He also pursued higher education and holds three degrees. Dan had the opportunity to teach English for seven years, and was a guest commentator on two different TV shows for about two years (Online and The Big Picture). He has also done a great deal of volunteer work over the years at hospitals (having completed the hospice course) and prisons for which he sponsored an inmate and has performed for Christmas celebrations at a selected federal institution every year for over ten years.

Kimberly is the quintessential "natural." She sings, dances and entertains in every way as a person who was born to perform. This is augmented by her background in gymnastics, ballet, and clothes design which is evident by the way she commands the stage with her unique and intense style. A career musician, Kim has performed with countless top level performers (no name dropping), toured extensively with the Legends of Rock Show and been a key component in several successful groups including Monkey Business. Kim is front and center in March Hare performing live, recording CDs, shooting videos, and contributing to every aspect of the band, including the business in which she uses her experience with booking entertainment, graphic design and video editing.

In a word, Kimberly Baskerville is dynamic! She brings energy to every aspect of performance, whether singing, dancing, playing percussion, playing guitar or just having fun on the playground she calls the stage. Kim does it all with flare, and audiences everywhere love her.

The March Hare is a character in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. As Alice walks through wonderland she comes across the Cheshire cat. After a brief conversation Alice asks which way she should go. The Cheshire cat replies that it doesn’t much matter because one way is the Hatter and the other is The March Hare and they’re both mad. The phrases “mad as a hatter” and “mad as a March hare” were common expressions at the time Carroll wrote. Hatters were believed to have been driven mad by the mercury used in curing felt hats. “Mad as a March Hare” alludes to the frenzied capers of the male hare during March, its rutting season. So there you have it….

“Whoop It Up” was a favourite saying of our friend Dave MacDonald. He loved music and March Hare so we took him on some trips and let him experience the Rock and Roll lifestyle in his last days. Dave passed away Feb 4/2007. Two things Dave loved to do were dance and fish, and he did them both with passion. When he danced he’d always say we’re gonna “Whoop it Up,” and when he showed us what it was like when he hooked a big fish he’d pretend to pull his fishing pole up and say “whoop” in his own unique way. We got Dave to record both those sounds and they are in the song. He had lots of fun recording them and the raw tracks are very funny.

Dave was always talking about “catching the big one” and had caught many large fish, so we took the theme of catching the big one and applied it to life, to take Dave’s message and tell everyone to “Go For It!” So the song has lots of energy and a positive message from D-Mac that will live on now that he has left us.

After doing two years on the road in the Dan Hare Band, Dan started what turned out to be a very successful band called Hot Rails in 1990 with Dave Devindisch and Mike Leroux. Over the years the band had several drummers including Chris Murray Driver (1993), Mike Steinman (1993-1995) and Dave Gustafson (1995-2003). Dave Devindisch left the band in 1998 to tour with original band DDT and was replaced by Andy on keys/bass.

With Andy on board the band released a CD in 1998 under the name March Hare because the name Hot Rails was a registered trademark for a Seymour Duncan guitar pickup and not available for an original band. (As an aside, Dan did speak to Seymour Duncan in 2002 who said it would have been fine to use the name, but it was too late). So the band had two names for two years from 1998 to 2000, Hot Rails for the cover band and March Hare for the original band. This was confusing for some people so in 2000 upon the release of the CD “Thru the Looking Glass” the band decided to have only one name, so it was March Hare for everything from then on.

In 2003 Dave Gustafson left to move to England and was replaced by lead singer/drummer from successful local band House Party. March Hare was the most successful three piece band around and this only grew with the addition of Ian’s voice.

In 2004 it was time to become a full out rock show band and what better person to make that happen than long time friend and colleague Kimberly Baskerville. She was doing well fronting Monkey Business at the time but agreed to join March Hare to pursue a new and bigger venture. Kim had performed with Andy in the early 90s in the Legends of Rock shows and had also performed many other shows with Dan and Andy throughout the years. Kim was also involved in much of the recording the band did and is on the first March Hare CD in 1998.

The band in its present form has been enormously successful doing festivals, corporate functions and Casinos. In 2005 after four years work the band released Running in a Dream and in 2007 Wonderland.

So that’s how the band evolved to its present form.