T- Dan Hofstedt

T-Dan Hofstedt has played guitar and written songs since he was a teenager growing up between Southern California and Hawaii. His original Christmas compositions include a suite of songs called “Behind the Scenes in Bethlehem,” each written from the various points of view of different characters in the Nativity narrative. T-Dan spent a 40-year career as a classically trained character animator at Bluth, Disney, Sony and Warner Bros, helping create many films such as An American Tail, Aladdin, Lion King, Mulan, Treasure Planet, Polar Express and Green Eggs & Ham, to name a few. Brother Hofstedt has served as Primary Music Leader in the Peachland Ward in Newhall CA for the past 8 years. He and his wife Deborah have three grown children and eight grandchildren.