Dan & Faith

Hello!

We’re feeling somewhat humid. We’ve practically forgotten what dry days feel like. Our garden is incredibly happy about all the moisture, as are the blackberries and black raspberries that grow around our property. The berries are sizing up nicely! Our local turkey flock is expanding again this year, as there have been a dozen or more turkey poults (turkey chicks are called ‘poults’) running around our yard with their hen guardians. The turkeys don’t seem to mind the incessant rain as that stirs up bugs for them to eat, including ticks. Any critter that eats ticks is welcome in our yard! Now if we could just get them to be interested in the mosquitoes…

When we moved to New Hampshire, one of the first places in the area where we found live local music was at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse across the river from us in Springfield, VT. We’re happy to be playing there this Sunday, July 9th as part of their summer Sunday Concert Series. If the weather cooperates, the show will be outdoors on the church lawn, otherwise it will be in the sanctuary. Music runs 4-6pm.

Back in April, we were scheduled to play in a Songwriters in the Round showcase at One Broadway Collaborative in Lawrence, MA, but due to illness (not Covid, just a annoying head cold that affected Dan’s singing), we had to drop out. We’re happy to be back on for Friday, July 21st. We’ll be swapping songs with Beth DeSombre and Doug Farrell, both extraordinary songwriters, and dear friends to boot. We expect there will be collaboration! You can attend in person or stream it live. Music is 7-9pm Eastern time. Tickets are $15, and can be purchased here. If you opt for the streaming option, the streaming information will be sent after you have reserved via the ticket link. It’s our understanding that this is Beth’s last New England show before she goes off to California for a year’s fellowship assignment, so we’d love to have a good crowd to give her a proper send-off.

July is apparently a good month for rescheduling things! Last month’s Acworth Music Festival at the Acworth Village Store in South Acworth, NH was rained out, and has been rescheduled for Saturday, July 22nd. Artists include Isness Ensemble, Blue Collar Band, Pointless Culture, Clint Pecor Live, Doug Farrell (yes, we get to hang out with Doug for two days in a row!), the Hypnic Jerks, and us. The festival runs 11am through dusk. We’re kicking off the festival at 11am, so please come early!

For our Patreon patrons, we have a new lyric video posted! Faith’s song Looking For The Road Less Traveled and Dan’s photos and video from our road trip last September/October go well together. Subscribe to our Patreon page, and you’ll get full access to the video, along with other subscriber-only content.

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).

For us, music is love. Share your love with your loved ones while you are able.

Dan & Faith

Hello!

Things were quiet on the performance end for us in May, but we’ve still been busy! Two music conferences, a bunch of planning and tracking for our next album, and the garden is almost ready for planting. It may seem late for planting, but we had frost only a week or two ago. Which seems a bit crazy, given that we hit 90 degrees yesterday, but hey, that’s weather in New England! Our foxes have 3 young kits this year, the bluebirds have moved into at least one of the birdhouses, there’s been a lone coyote wandering down the driveway in the evenings, and a young black bear has been eating out of our neighbor’s bird feeders (which she has now wisely taken down).

One of the best things about the arrival of warm weather is the arrival of farmers market season! We kick off the season at the Peterborough Farmers Market in Peterborough, NH on Wednesday, June 14th. Farm produce, baked goods, food trucks, and music are a great combination. Bring a shopping bag, pick up ingredients for dinner, and enjoy some music! Rain or shine, the market runs 3-6pm.

We’re delighted to be back at the Acworth Music Fest at the Acworth Village Store in South Acworth, NH this year. Festival day is Saturday, June 17th. In addition to us, this year’s acts include Blue Collar Band, Best Revenge & Friends, Pointless Culture, Donnah In Flames, and more! Music runs 11am-dusk. Performance order hasn’t been finalized, but we expect to be on early in the day.

Back in 2010, musicians Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards got the idea to hike from town to town in Massachusetts bringing music to the towns they passed through. Since then, the Massachusetts Walking Tour has become an annual tradition, and over the years has included many different hikers and musicians, including us. This year, their “bipedal concert tour” is partnering with the grassroots organization Gateways to Nature, which celebrates green space within the towns of Holbrook, Abington, Whitman and Rockland, MA. You can join in with the walk during the day, or attend the concerts in the evening, or both. We’ll be opening for the walkers on the first day, Wednesday June 21st, for their show at the Holbrook Public Library in Holbrook, MA. Music starts at 6pm.

We end the month with a new venue! We’re doing a bandstand show at the Cape May County Park & Zoo in Cape May Court House, NJ on Saturday, June 24th at 2pm. The show is sponsored by the Cape May Court House Library. Entrance to the park is free, as is the concert. In case of bad weather, the show will move to the library.

In honor of Pride month (and every day), we celebrate, love and accept our LGBTQIA+ friends, and we vow to do what we can to make sure their rights are not erased. Through Faith’s song My Name Is George, we speak to audiences about the high rates of suicide attempts among trans youth who are not accepted and supported by their families.

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).

Good music can be found in many unexpected places. Keep your eyes — and ears — open!

Dan & Faith