Dan & Faith

Hello!

Ever notice that sometimes the universe conspires to put you in a place you wouldn’t otherwise have ended up, and exactly at the best possible time? That just happened to us. We decided this year we would stick around home during the winter, and not travel south. And then a family gathering was scheduled for early February. In Florida. It was too late to book gigs for the trip, but hey, we figured we could visit friends and relatives along the way. So we decided to do the trip. Then, right before we left, Elon Musk said that SpaceX was going to launch the Falcon Heavy rocket (with his Tesla roadster as its payload) the following week, while we would be in Florida. And suddenly what was going to be a laid-back trip down and back, with a nice family party in the middle, suddenly became a once-in-a-lifetime trip! You can see Dan’s photos of the launch and subsequent double booster rocket landing here.

Because of the road trip, it’s been a quiet month gig-wise.

Have you ever tuned into a concert online? You get the best of both worlds — you get to watch a live concert, and you don’t need to leave the house to do it. You can interact with us via the chat window, and nobody has to know that you’re curled up on the couch in your PJs, snuggling with the cat. We’ve been doing a regular monthly Concert Window online concert on the third Tuesday of the month. This month, that’s this coming Tuesday, February 20th. Just tune in to http://www.concertwindow.com/danandfaith from 8-9pm Eastern time, sit back with your favorite hot toddy, and enjoy! You don’t have to be in the same timezone with us. Or even in the same country. How cool is that?

We finally have our home music studio set up well enough to start recording demos of possible songs for our next CD. We don’t have a timeframe on the CD yet, but we certainly have enough material for it! We’re recording a bunch of our newest songs, but also a few of the older ones that we love and want to consider re-releasing. Since this past week was Valentine’s Day, we figured the love song that Dan wrote for Faith’s birthday would be the perfect thing to share. Please enjoy In My Dreams, and share it with your sweetheart!

Our CDs Seeking and Simple Grace are available from us at our shows, on our website, or you can find them at CD Baby, iTunes and most other online music stores.

As always, you can find additional schedule information on our website, https://www.danandfaith.com. For more frequent news updates and information, check out our Facebook fan page and follow us on Twitter (@danandfaith).

Got young kids? grandkids? nieces or nephews? Bet they’d love to hear live local music! They might just grow up and become the next generation’s musicians. Music shouldn’t be a contest — it’s something to share with everyone.

Dan & Faith

Hello!

Happy new year! We’re happy to report that our house in NH holds the heat very well. This is important when you consider that we’ve been in the middle of a rather brutal cold snap since the day after Christmas. Tonight should be the last of it, but Mother Nature is taking it out in style — our overnight low tonight is supposed to be somewhere down around -18F, and it’s windy.

Thankfully, things are supposed to be a bit warmer by the time of our first show this month! We’ll be splitting the afternoon of Saturday, January 13th with Bruno’s Human, our friend Charles Collins, at the Farm Cafe in the Toadstool Bookstore in Keene, NH. We were disappointed to have our last show at the Farm Cafe in December cancelled by an ice storm, so we’re looking forward to all the wonderful baked goods we missed, and to share some musical fun with Charles. There will definitely be collaboration! We play 3-5pm.

We’re continuing our monthly online Concert Window concert series on Tuesday, January 16th at 8pm Eastern time. Let us take your mind off all the cold and snowy weather with some warm and friendly music! Curl up on the couch in your snuggliest PJs with your laptop, a cup of hot cocoa and a blanket, and enjoy an hour of Dan & Faith in the comfort of your own living room. Just bring up http://www.concertwindow.com/danandfaith and enjoy the show. If you’re on your laptop, there’s a chat window where you can chat with us during the show (haven’t found the chat window on our phones or tablets yet, but it might be there if you hunt!).

On Tuesday, January 23rd, we’ll be doing a slightly different online show. Harmony in Unison, a virtual stage on Facebook, runs daily performances Sunday through Thursday. Just go to Harmony in Unison’s Facebook page and ask to join the group. At 8pm Eastern time that evening, go back to the group page, and we’ll be playing live through that Facebook group. You can interact with us via comments on the feed both during and after the performance. And if you miss the show, you can still watch it at via the archived video. Don’t forget, you need to join the page beforehand. Do check out some of the other artists’ performances that are archived in the group!

Just a reminder, there is no Serendipity Songwriter Session this month. It will be back in February with host Beth DeSombre.

To help ring in the new year, we offer up a celebration of the winter solstice. Dan wrote this song in late 2014 when we went on Nick Noble’s radio show, The Folk Revival, on WICN-FM for his holiday show. Nick’s only rule for the 2-3 songs you play on his holiday show is that at least one of the songs must be a holiday song. We figured the winter solstice doesn’t get a lot of songs written about it, so Dan wrote one. Click here to listen to a demo recording of Solstice.

Our CDs Seeking and Simple Grace are available from us at our shows, on our website, or you can find them at CD Baby, iTunes and most other online music stores. Seeking has been specially mastered for iTunes, which gives higher fidelity over standard iTunes recordings.

As always, you can find additional schedule information on our website, https://www.danandfaith.com. For more frequent news updates and information, check out our Facebook fan page and follow us on Twitter (@danandfaith).

The best possible cure for cabin fever is to go out and listen to live local music. Stay warm!

Dan & Faith