Dan Cloutier is Jerusalem Perspective’s music and art journalist. A singer-songwriter with several recorded albums including Bottles and Seeds (2006), Blind Willie's Lighthouse (2011), and The Battle of Greenland (2017), Dan is well known in the Boston area folk music scene.

As an undergraduate student at Gordon College (1998-2002), Dan majored in Biblical and Theological Studies, taking courses such as Modern Jewish Culture and Biblical Hebrew with Dr. Marvin Wilson. He also spent a semester at Jerusalem University College, where he lived in the Gloria Hotel Annex, just inside the Old City's Jaffa Gate.

Dan's most recent album, The Iceberg (2025), has been received with critical acclaim. Learn more about Dan Cloutier at his website: https://www.dancloutier.com/.

Dan lives with his wife Kalina and his two children, Jonathan and Genevieve, in Massachusetts.

One of Dan's songs was featured in the Jerusalem Perspective article “The Power of Song” [https://www.jerusalemperspective.com/11694/].