Dan & Faith

Hello!

They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. In which case, we’re hoping for excellent weather at the end of the month! We’ve been watching the news reports of coastal flooding out of RI, MA and the NH coast while the snow falls here in western NH. For us, thankfully, it was a pretty normal snowstorm. Now to dig out…

We’ll definitely be dug out by tomorrow, Saturday, March 3rd so we can head down to the Farm Cafe at the Toadstool Bookshop in Keene, NH. We’ve missed our last two shows at the cafe due to bad weather, and doggone it, we’re going to be there this time! Amy and Skip will have some tasty veg food, we’ll have some good music, and you can pick up some bedtime reading on your way out of the bookstore. We’ll play 3-5pm. Stop by!

The next Serendipity Songwriter Session at the Serendipity Cafe in Maynard, MA is Wednesday, March 14th. Our guest songwriters this month are Doug Farrell and Rob Lytle. The theme for this month’s session, as chosen by our February audience, is “Midlife Crisis”. Come have dinner and dessert, enjoy some wonderful original music, and help us choose the theme for next month’s songwriters! Music runs 7:30-9:30pm.

Our next online Concert Window concert is Tuesday, March 20th. If getting out to see live music is difficult for you, or you’re not normally anywhere near us, we bring the concert to you! Curl up on the couch with a hot toddy and a snuggly blanket, tune in to http://www.concertwindow.com/danandfaith and enjoy live music streaming into your living room. We play 8-9pm Eastern time. We’re pretty sure we’ll be doing this one from home, so you can check out the new video background in our music room, too.

We’re pleased to be involved in the inaugural show of the Rhode Island Songwriters Association and Mushroom Musicians Presents – Songwriters in the Round at The Hearing Room in Lowell, MA on Friday, March 30th. As with our own Serendipity Songwriter Sessions, the Hearing Room SITR has a prompt for which we get to write a song. For this month’s session, the prompt is “Who I Am”. We’ll be sharing the evening with David Hardwick. The Hearing Room is a funky arts space in Lowell, and we’re happy to help kick off what should be another fun New England in-the-round. And you can help choose the theme for next month’s songwriters! Doors open at 7pm, music runs 8-10pm. Suggested donation of $6.

For us, March goes out like a lion! We finish up the month with a feature at the Saturday night open mike at Coffee Coffee in Salem, NH on Saturday, March 31st. The open mike runs 6-9pm. Come settle in with a cup of coffee and listen, or you can play in the open mike.

We’re starting to get a few more videos up online. Take a look at Dan’s song, Sixty Eight. It tells the story of a time of turmoil. Riots in the streets. A divisive presidential election was going on. And the space race was in full swing. The year was 1968.

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).

We’re very pleased to see a new generation becoming politically aware and active in this country, though we wish their reasons for doing so could be less dire. We stand behind these kids as they find their voices and cry Never Again.

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