# Happy Montana

> Happy Montana is the artist name of Danny Kastner (Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kastner), an award-winning American musician, pianist, songwriter, composer, producer, director and entrepreneur based in Nashville, Tennessee. Official site: https://happy.mt

Happy Montana and Danny Kastner are the same person; he performs, writes and produces as Happy Montana today. Highlights: Master's in music composition from Boston University; two-time BMI Composition Award and two-time ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award winner; keyboardist in Kiefer Sutherland's band since 2015; his jazz group Jazz Punks held #1 on the CMJ Jazz Radio chart in 2012; music director of Songa; founder of Move On A Dime and If So, Then Joy Corporation; Founding Partner and Executive Director of the Milt Olin Foundation (#StopWrex). His project Happy Montana and the Southern Lights launches before the end of 2026.

## Profile

- [Full profile (Markdown)](https://happy.mt/about.md): music, Jazz Punks, songwriting and production credits, composition awards, The Weather Report Legacy Project, companies (FanRocket, POPstick, Music Interactive), television, service
- [Everything in one file](https://happy.mt/llms-full.txt): this index plus the full profile

## Music and live sessions

- [Songs from the Room](https://happy.mt/faith/): live session recordings and the songwriting experience
- [Songa.LA](https://happy.mt/songa.la/): audio player for live session recordings

## Projects

- [Move On A Dime](https://moveonadime.com): launching soon. Create together, own your rights, grow your content, publish everywhere, build your music career.
- [Happy Gives Foundation](https://happy.gives): a 501(c)(3) public charity that funds music education for children in K-12 schools through partnerships with mission-aligned businesses
- [GenC Coffee Club](https://clubgenc.com): a coffee club where $10 from every bag goes to Bloom Arts Foundation, which puts working musicians in kids' classrooms
- Song Social: song promotion and fan engagement
- Song Nashville: a community connecting Nashville songwriters with producers, musicians and other music professionals
- Happy Montana and the Southern Lights: music project launching before the end of 2026

## Optional

- [Wikipedia: Danny Kastner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kastner)
- [Official site](https://happy.mt)