Dan & Faith

Hello!

Mother Nature teased us with a frost advisory a week ago, so we did a quick harvest of shishito, jalapeño, and poblano hot peppers, green bell peppers, and what few pickling cucumbers were left. We started out the summer struggling to get the pepper plants to blossom, and they stayed fairly small for a long time until we fed them. Apparently if you feed pepper plants, they show their appreciation by blossoming and bursting with peppers! It seems pepper plants are much like the human soul, which needs to be fed from time to time for it to flourish. We feed our souls with travel and sharing music!

Our souls are feeling well fed from our trip to Portsmouth, NH this past Saturday to play Faith’s song Deep Cold Sea at the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival.  Such an honor to have it chosen as the winning song in their songwriting contest!  We’re grateful to the judges, and to the appreciative audience at the North Church.

We start our journey this month on Sunday, October 5th in Morris, NY at the Gatehouse Coffee Shop & Mercantile. This delightful cafe offers sandwiches, soups, coffee and tea, and local artisans’ wares. The leaves should be turning nicely by then! Come out to see the foliage, enjoy lunch and some music. We’ll be playing 1-3pm.

Folknet, northeast Ohio’s folk, traditional music, and dance society, has been hosting music events and concerts in the Cleveland area for over 30 years. They’re hosting us at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beachwood, OH on Saturday, October 11th as part of their Folknet Concert Series. Some big names in the folk world have played this series over the years, so this is quite an honor! Deborah Wuitowicz will be opening. Music runs 7-9pm. Admission is $15, or pay as you’re able. Folknet member discounts are available.

We’ll be closing out our month at the Folk Alliance Region Midwest (FARM) conference in Lisle, IL from Thursday, October 23rd through Sunday, October 26th. We’ll be hosting the opening and closing song circles on Thursday afternoon and Sunday respectively, as well as playing in several late night showcases throughout the weekend. If you’ll be there, give us a shout! We’d love to touch base.

This coming Friday, October 3rd, is Bandcamp Friday. That’s when Bandcamp waives their revenue share on music purchases and passes those funds directly to artists and labels. We’re good with your picking up our music from Bandcamp on any day, but we appreciate the bit more we get on Bandcamp Fridays. Now that we’re into October, the holidays are coming up quickly! If you’re looking for a gift for those hard-to-shop-for folks, music is always a great option.  Check out our Bandcamp page!

Our albums Who We Are, 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, follow us on Patreon. For more frequent news updates and information, check out our Facebook fan page.

We recommend you feed your soul with live local music!

Dan & Faith

Hello!

How many ways can we use peaches? Chopped peaches on our morning oatmeal. Peach-banana smoothies. Peach sorbet. Peach crisp. Plain chopped peaches in a dessert dish. We haven’t pulled out the muffin tins yet, but peach-oat muffins are definitely on the list. Frozen peaches to save for mid-winter. This is such a wonderful problem to have! Our peach trees have blessed us with a bounty this year, and we’re loving it. On the vegetable front, our four zucchini plants are producing enthusiastically now. We finally found a spiralizer that seems to work without making a horrible mess, and we’ve been making “peanut zoodles” (zucchini noodles in a spicy peanut sauce) in addition to Dan’s zucchini-based vegan alfredo sauce, as well as adding chopped zucchini into just about every meal, and freezing a bunch as well. Yes, it’s definitely harvest time!

Fruits and vegetables are not our only bounty this month. Faith’s song Deep Cold Sea has won the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival’s 2025 songwriting contest! According to two of the veteran judges, it was the strongest field of candidates they have ever had for the contest, so we are incredibly honored to have our song chosen. Our reward will be to perform it live at this year’s festival, which runs Saturday and Sunday, September 27th and 28th, across the city of Portsmouth, NH. The concert where we will be performing the song will be Saturday evening, September 27th, at 7pm at the North Church in Market Square. The full schedule for the festival can be found here. The entire festival is free, but reservations are requested for the free evening concert. Check the festival website for ticketing details.

The International Singer Songwriters Association (ISSA) is a national/global professional association whose goal is to build community and provide opportunities for singer-songwriters. The ISSA Boston/Northeast chapter is hosting a songwriter showcase on Sunday, September 28th at Oakes Ames Memorial Hall in North Easton, MA. We’ll be playing in the round with Caroline Brennan, Terri Lachance, and Linda Marks. We love doing in-the-round shows, as it’s such a great opportunity for spontaneous collaborations! You never know when multi-part harmony or amazing instrumental accompaniments might break out. Music starts at 3pm. Suggested donation of $20 at the door.

Our albums Who We Are, 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, follow us on Patreon. For more frequent news updates and information, check out our Facebook fan page.

Check out your local venues that offer live music. The venues and the musicians will appreciate you!

Dan & Faith