Dan & Faith

Hello!

We returned from a road trip of only a couple of weeks and found an entire wheelbarrow-full of baseball bat sized zucchini waiting for us! Oh, it can be dangerous leaving a garden unattended for a few weeks this time of year. The weeds, too, were incredibly healthy. It took us 3 days to pull them out and give our veggie plants some elbow room. But we now have six jars of refrigerator pickles marinating in the fridge, and the freezer now contains six meals worth of zucchini-based alfredo sauce (vegan!), as well as two bags of sliced zucchini, two bags of sliced yellow squash, and two bags of chopped broccoli. Our first cherry tomatoes are ripe, and our first brandywine tomato (large beefsteak variety, very flavorful) has been enjoyed. We’ve even had a couple of jalapeño peppers and a sweet bell pepper. Fortunately, we’re sticking a little closer to home for the month of August, so we can hopefully keep the garden under a bit better control!

The fun begins in Lawrence, MA on Friday, August 9th at One Broadway Collaborative with the Friday night Songwriters Series song swap. We’ll be swapping songs with Alex Sabau starting at 7:30pm Eastern time. You can come see us in person, or watch online. Tickets for either are $15, available here. For online, the video link will be supplied after you register at the ticket link.

And then we’re off to the fair! The Cornish Fair in Cornish, NH has been running since 1950. This year, the fair runs Friday, August 16th through Sunday, August 18th. The fair is a traditional family friendly, educational, agricultural fair. Fairgoers come from all over to see the fruits and vegetable exhibits, horse and oxen pulling, 4-H, crafts, children’s activities, live entertainment, vendors, amusement rides and more. On Sunday, August 18th, we’ll be playing on stage 11am-12:30pm. The fair itself opens at 7am Sunday and closes at 6pm. Entrance to the fair is $15 for adults, free for kids 12 and under.

The Acworth Village Store is a local gem right over the hill from us in South Acworth, NH. During the summer, the Store offers dinners for takeout or dine-in on Saturdays; if the weather is good, there’s music from local musicians to go with your dinner. We’ll be playing for the Summer Saturday Dinner out in back of the store on Saturday, August 24th from 5:30-7:30pm. Check the store’s Facebook page a few days before to see what the menu is for that night, and if the weather is iffy, check the page again that day. In case of rain, the food will still happen, but the music may be cancelled.

We’re looking forward to this year’s Keene Music Festival in Keene, NH, and another year of presenting the Singer Songwriter Stage at the Farm Cafe / Toadstool Bookshop! We have some favorites returning again this year, and some new faces as well. The Festival is Saturday, August 31st, and the Singer Songwriter Stage runs from 12:20pm-7pm. This year’s lineup:

12:20pm: Volkert Volkersz
1:10pm: Pat Daddona
2:00pm: Carl Beverly
2:50pm: Jon Swenson
3:40pm: John Ferullo
4:30pm: Oen Kennedy
5:20pm: Dan & Faith
6:10pm: The Milkhouse Heaters

Our thanks to the Toadstool Bookshop and Farm Cafe for hosting us!

Our albums 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.

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).

Local food, produce, and music are all treats worth seeking!

Dan & Faith

Hello!

We’re starting into one of our favorite seasons of the year — garden season! That’s when all the tiny little plants we planted in the garden back in late May start getting big enough and mature enough to give us dinner ingredients. So far we’ve harvested six zucchinis, three pickling cucumbers, and the entire first batch of radishes. Oh, and a bit of parsley, basil and oregano, too. We have a number of green tomatoes that we’re watching expectantly as well. Though our one jalapeño pepper disappeared overnight! We were hoping to put it into tonight’s dinner, but it has vanished. We already have mesh circles around our kale and broccoli plants because something (we think mole or mouse) ate the original seedlings. We’re wondering if maybe our critter has a taste for spicy food?? Though it could also have been one of the neighborhood crows that’s been hanging around lately. Time to get the scarecrows out!

We’re doing an online in-the-round show today, Sunday, July 7th at 1pm Eastern time. Music Matters Showcase describes itself as, “A virtual Music Showcase featuring incredibly talented performers.” Tune in on MMS’s Facebook page for the fun, and to find out who else is joining us!  If you miss it, not to worry — you’ll still be able to find the video on their page afterward.

You may recall our mentioning we’re working on a new album. All the tracks are recorded, and we’re finalizing the audio mix now. The packaging layout and such is in progress. But the big news here is that we have a title! Look for Who We Are to be coming out later this year. We can’t wait to share it with you!

The news these days can be pretty heavy, and there are a lot of stressful things happening in the world. So let’s lighten things up a bit, shall we? Back in February of 2023, we were on tour down in Florida and spent a few nights at a campground in the Everglades that had a central lake with camp sites surrounding it. Faith was trying to write a song one afternoon, and fell asleep under a palm tree. When she woke up, there was an 8 foot (or more) alligator lying on the edge of the lake! Over the next half hour or so, it decided to stroll through our campsite. Dan got some amazing pictures, and Faith got a song from it. Here’s our performance of Gator Gator at One Broadway Collaborative back in April.

Our albums 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.

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).

Stay cool, stay dry, stay and listen to the music!

Dan & Faith