Dan & Faith

Hello!

The summer has come to a close, the leaves are changing, and the garden is finally slowing down. The cucumber, zucchini, yellow squash, and broccoli plants have fed us extremely well this year! The tomatoes were a bit slow, but we’ve had some of the sweetest, largest brandywine tomatoes (beefsteak size) we’ve ever grown. We got a few eggplant, green peppers and jalapeño peppers, and the celery is decent. Our butternut squash plants all turned out to be acorn squash plants, but they have given us some lovely acorn squash that we’ll be eating for quite a while. Only two cabbages, but they’re dense and delicious. And then there’s the kale. Oh yes, the kale! The plants are a good 4 feet tall, and we have a lot of them. Kale lasts well after first frost, and it freezes well. Rinse, chop, toss in freezer. Remove from freezer, throw a handful into soups, stews, etc. We will eat well this winter, too!

This coming Saturday, October 7th, is the Vermont Apple Festival and Craft Show at the Riverside Middle School in Springfield, VT. Craft vendors, food, kids activities, farmers market, even an apple pie contest! Stop by the school gym starting at 9:10am and running through 4pm for a day of music with Bill Brink, Matt Meserve, Dan & Faith, Matt Munroe, and Otto Cruise. Our set runs 11:45am-1pm.

Open mics are a wonderful opportunity to get to know folks in an area, hear new music, and discover new talent. When we travel, we like to find local open mics for just that reason. Open Mic America is an online nationwide open mic for any genre of music. Each performer gets 2 songs and a brief interview. We’ve been on OMA several times now, and will be back on again this Sunday, October 8th from 8-10pm Eastern on YouTube.

We have played at Wild Hog In The Woods in Madison, WI a number of times, and are delighted to be heading back there again on Friday, October 13th. The Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center, where this coffeehouse is held, has a great vibe, and Wild Hog is celebrating 45 years of bringing a diverse array of music to the community in a listening room environment. Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 7:30pm. Admission is $2 for members, $4 for non-members, and during the show, Phillup the Pig, the ceramic boar piggy bank, is passed for the performers.

It’s fun for us to find new venues! On Friday, October 20th, we get to play at the Two Way Street Coffeehouse in Downers Grove, IL. With almost 50 years of continuous operation, the Two Way Street Coffee House is the oldest music coffee house in the Midwest. Doors open at 7:30pm, music starts at 8pm Central time. Suggested donation is $10. The show is also streamed online. You can access the livestream from their website.

This Friday, October 6th, is Bandcamp Friday. On Bandcamp Friday, Bandcamp waives their revenue share to help support the musical artists who offer their music on Bandcamp. Don’t look now, but the holiday season is approaching! This would be a marvelous time to consider picking up a copy of one of our albums. You can order a physical CD, or download in any format you choose. And if you end up buying on a different day, that’s OK, too! Bandcamp is a wonderfully supportive organization that we’ve sold our CDs through for several years now.

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).

Listening to live local music is a great way to get to know folks in your community!

Dan & Faith

Hello!

We’re continuing to stick around home this summer as we record more tracks for our next album. The garden is continuing to gift us with insane amounts of zucchini and yellow squash, pickling cucumbers, broccoli, kale, celery, and now eggplant, jalapeño peppers, a smattering of tomatoes, and a few sweet peppers. In the process of weeding (which, we admit, we did with a couple of mowers and a string trimmer), we found a volunteer sunflower that was apparently seeded from last year’s sunflower crop. Our acorn squash plants (which were labeled as butternut squash plants — surprise!) have put out a bunch of acorn squashes that we’re hoping will start ripening soon. And we just picked our very first McIintosh apple from our orchard! We haven’t either of us eaten a Mac in many years, and it was soooo good.

This coming Saturday, September 2nd, we are hosting the Singer/Songwriter stage at the Keene Music Fest in Keene, NH. The stage is located outside the Toadstool Bookshop on Emerald Ave, and is sponsored by The Farm Cafe within the bookshop. The stage runs from 12:20pm to 7pm, with 8 different acts throughout the day, each playing original music. We’re very excited about the folks we have coming in to play! The stage schedule:

12:20pm: Pat Daddona
1:10pm: Carl Beverly
2:00pm: John Ferullo
2:50pm: Jason Baker
3:40pm: Tom Smith
4:30pm: Kota
5:20pm: Dan & Faith
6:10pm: The Milkhouse Heaters

This promises to be a great day of music! The event is rain or shine, but the weather forecast for Saturday is looking quite delightful at the moment. Come support these great New England acts, along with two great businesses! And you can also wander downtown Keene and check out all the other music happening that day.

This Friday, September 1st is Bandcamp Friday. On Bandcamp Friday, Bandcamp waives their revenue share to help support the musical artists who offer their music on Bandcamp. We know it might be a little early to start thinking about holiday shopping, but perhaps you have a music-loving friend with a birthday coming up soon? This would be a marvelous time to consider picking up a copy of one of our albums. You can order a physical CD, or download in any format you choose. And if you end up buying on a different day, that’s OK, too! Bandcamp is a wonderfully supportive organization that we’ve sold our CDs through for several years now.

One of Dan’s new songs is a celebration of a favorite place to eat in our area, the Hartland Diner in Hartland, VT.  We took banjo and bass up to the Diner back in July, and we played the song for the owner/chef, Nicole.  She took a video of us playing it and posted it out on the diner’s Facebook page.  She loved it, as did the folks at the tables around us!  Here’s her video of us playing You Won’t Leave Hungry Today.

Last Thursday, we played a Listen & Lunch show in Peterborough, NH, and one of the folks in the audience sent us a video of our performance of Dance Izzy Dance, one of Dan’s songs.  We’ve posted his video to our Patreon page.  Our patrons can see the full video; non-patrons can see a preview.  If you’d like to get early access to new videos, or see videos and content specifically posted for our patrons, sign up on our Patreon page.

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).

Want to go hear live music but can’t afford the crazy ticket prices for the Major Names? Go find live local music in your area! It’s affordable, you’ll likely get to meet the musicians in person, and you will find that they’re at least as good as the major acts, if not better.

Dan & Faith