Dan & Faith

Hello!

This past month of shows near home was a delight! Much as we love traveling, it’s still a treat to have a show within an hour or two’s drive of home. This month we’re mostly sticking around home again for personal stuff — annual checkups, dental visits, etc. We’re also doing a bit of upkeep on our camper van. Nothing major, just a few things that need tweaking. That goes for both the van and us! And while we’re home, our music is still finding its way around in the world. The track My Name Is George from our recent album, Who We Are, is especially getting a lot of notice!

Rebecca Cullen, the founder and editor of Stereo Stickman, an online music magazine out of the United Kingdom offering the latest in underground music news, writes, “Reflecting on the nature of transition and wishing to be known as someone new, My Name Is George takes the traditional folk format of intimate, unedited musicianship, and a catchy, uncomplex melody, and proceeds to weave in a deeply honest and vulnerable take on the feelings experienced by a young trans boy.” Read her review here!

“Sometimes the quietest songs carry the loudest messages.” Thus begins a review of My Name Is George, along with a good mention of our Who We Are album as a whole, from The Industry Times. Since their founding, The Industry Times has established itself as the premier destination for discerning readers seeking thoughtful coverage across entertainment, business, technology, and culture. You can read what they have to say about us, the album, and the song here.

We’re even getting some good press on the other side of the planet! Broken 8 Records, an independent music platform and marketing group in Sydney, Australia, published an extensive interview with us. Check it out here!

Wiley Koepp at Coyote Music in Austin, TX has been promoting the careers of talented musicians all over the world for the past 25 years. He recently published a very thorough press release about My Name Is George, and a bit about us as well. That alone would have been pretty cool. But then he also published a review that put the song “in the tradition of Baez, Guthrie, Dylan.” OK, that’s excellent company right there! And beyond that, he clearly showed that he understood the song as a call for love and acceptance of transgender youth, and included links to the crisis support pages of PFlag and The Trevor Project at the end. We were wiping away tears by the time we finished reading it. Wow! Thank you, Wiley, for this amazing review.

Do you have any music venues in your area where you think we would be a good fit? Send us their names! Or if you’d like our music in a more intimate setting, consider hosting a house concert for us in your own home. We can talk you through how to do it if you’ve never done it before. Drop us an email if you’d be interested!

Our albums Who We Are, Then and Now, Seeking, and Simple Grace are available from us at shows and on our website, through Bandcamp, or you can find them at iTunes and most other online music stores. Our music is also available streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.

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Pete Seeger is quoted as saying, “I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.” Pete is the one who introduced the song We Shall Overcome to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Yesterday we sang that song along with many other folks at our local Hands Off rally in Bellows Falls, VT. Music is powerful stuff.

Dan & Faith