Editing Dan Bern (section)

==Early life and education==
Dan Bern was born in [[Mount Vernon, Iowa]].{{cn|date=September 2024}}
He is of [[Lithuanian Jewish]] ancestry ; on a trip to Lithuania, he learned Bernstein was his family's name before immigration to the United States.<ref name=achorage>{{cite web |url=http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/documentee59.html |title=Press: One Thing Real |website=www.anchoragepress.com |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030522175559/http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/documentee59.html |archive-date=22 May 2003 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Bern learned to play cello at age six, and the guitar at 14<ref name=post>Kathleen Phalen-Tomaselli, [http://poststar.com/lifestyles/the-artistic-genius-of-dan-bern/article_b678735d-3e70-5433-9118-cfaf3a57aed3.html The artistic genius of Dan Bern] The Poststar. April 2, 2017</ref> or 16, after he heard his first Bob Dylan songs.<ref name=salon>Dan Bern [https://www.salon.com/2015/10/07/bob_dylan_called_me_a_scurrilous_little_wretch_with_a_hard_on_for_comedy/Bob Dylan called me a “scurrilous little wretch with a hard-on for comedy] Salon.com 10.08.2015</ref>

After college, he played seven open mics a week in Chicago and started to be invited to Chicago folk clubs such as The Earl of Old Town, Holstein's and The No Exit.<ref name=salon/>