Dan & Faith

Hello!

Road trips can be a lot of fun if you take the time to explore on the way. Yes, we’re out here for gigs, but we’ve also been exploring as much as possible, too. We’ve hiked along the shores of Lake Superior, through the Badlands, and on top of Scotts Bluff National Monument, as well as down into Carlsbad Caverns. We’ve visited with friends across the country. We almost blew off the road in Wyoming, and we baked in the sun in Texas. We’ve picked goatheads out of the bottoms of our shoes (Google ‘em — they’re nasty little seed pods with thorns in all directions!), and tracked a ton of sand into the van. We found excellent vegan food in St. Paul, MN; Santa Fe, NM; and the middle of nowhere west of Fargo, ND. And we’ve met some wonderful people along the way. It’s been fun, and we’re still going!

Jan Seides runs a great in-the-round showcase series at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin TX. This month, the 2nd Sunday Songwriters gets moved back a day to Saturday, October 8th (long story!). We’ll join Jan and fellow guest songwriter Scott Duncan for an afternoon of original music. Show runs 1:30-3:30pm (CDT). We would love to see our Austin area friends!

The following weekend we head for Nashville TN and the 34th annual Southern Festival of Books. The Festival is among the oldest literary festivals in the US, and welcomes approximately 200 authors and 25,000 visitors each year. The Festival is free, and includes more than 60 publishers and booksellers, as well as food trucks and performance stages. Our friends Michael & Nell have invited us to join them for their music stage sets on Friday, October 14th at 3:45pm and Saturday, October 15th at 5:15pm. You can browse books, meet authors, and listen to music. What’s not to love?

We sell our albums online, both physical copies and downloads, through Bandcamp. Normally, Bandcamp takes a small cut of each sale to finance their efforts, but on the first Friday of every month, they waive their revenue share and turn it over to us! This month, Bandcamp Friday is this coming Friday, October 7th. It’s not too early to start thinking about holiday gifts…

Our albums Then and Now, Seeking, and Simple Grace are available from us 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.

As always, you can find additional schedule information on our website. For additional content and stories from the road, follow us on Patreon. For more frequent news updates and information, check out our Facebook fan page and follow us on Twitter (@danandfaith).

If you can, travel. See the country, see the world, talk to people, listen to music in strange new places. It’s worth every minute.

Dan & Faith

Hello!

How did it get to be September already? Our field corn crop is rather sparse, but our sunflowers are making up for it. One sunflower variety is relatively short with multi-colored blossoms; the other advertises itself as having 12 foot stalks, and that advertisement is accurate. They’re huge! The neighborhood bees are loving the blossoms. We found a few straggler peaches in our orchard in the last week or so, and we have one pear tree that looks like it will grace us with some gnarly looking pears. Lots of new growth on all the fruit trees. Our foxes have moved along for the season, but the young turkeys and their guardian mamas are still around. Not quite sure how many flocks we have, but we sure do have a lot of turkeys!

We have one show this month, and it’s going to be a fun one! We’re back live, in person, at Wild Hog In The Woods in Madison, WI on Friday, September 16th for our “Dueling Duos” show with Andina & Rich (Sandy Andina and Stephen Lee Rich). We’ve done a few shows with Sandy and Steve over the years, and they’re always a hoot! The show is at the Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center. Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 7:30. Admission is typically $2 for members, $4 for non-members, and during the show they pass “Phillup the Pig”, a ceramic wild boar piggy bank. Proceeds from Phillup are split between the venue (a great neighborhood resource!) and the musicians.

Last year’s live show at the Parish Center for the Arts in Westford, MA was our first live, in-person indoor show in what felt like forever. Here’s our song New Vision from that show. Laugh together every day!

Our albums Then and Now, Seeking, and Simple Grace are available from us 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.

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

Your local music venues had a tough time of it through Covid. Give them some love now.

Dan & Faith