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On Friday, February 3rd, the independent music sales site Bandcamp will be donating 100% of their proceeds from the day’s sales to the American Civil Liberties Union to assist in the expensive legal battles they foresee engaging in over the next four years.

Anyone who has heard our stuff can guess where we stand on the current Administration’s policies.  We’re thrilled to be on Bandcamp and to support this.

Please give a thought to buying some of our tracks (or even all of them — there’s a discount deal for all five albums) and helping out.  Even if you don’t buy our stuff, Bandcamp has something for everyone and every musical taste — we’re sure you can find something you like.  Or…you could just donate or become a member of the ACLU…

Thanks in advance for your time.  Here are a couple of links for you:

Bandcamp’s statement on the fundraiser

Our Bandcamp site (or just use the tab on our home page here)

…was another good night for the band, including several performances we’d either never done before as a four-piece (several selections from the “Americanized” album, which was a duo recording — done in deference to and as a comment on the election of…well, you know) or completely new pieces created on stage for the first time (“That Bo Diddley Beat” and “Frogs (Sprung),” an improvised piece over a funky beat).

We also broke out the cuatro and did “The Lives Of Artists” as a band piece — it had only been performed previously as a solo piece.  A little tribute to the fact that even if all the funding for the arts IS cut, we’ll all still be doing what we do.

If it seemed that last night felt a little more politically oriented than even our regular sets…well, it was.  We’re not an apolitical bunch of guys; far from it. Count on us to keep doing more in the future…like, maybe the next time we’re back at the starlite on February 23rd?  Yup.

Our next gig is in Worcester, MA, on February 4th at the intimate cabaret style environment of Nick’s.  More details on that fabulous line up next week…

Keep at it.  See you soon, and thanks for reading and listening.  We’ll be more attentive to this site in the future, we promise…

Why, lots of places, including a gig in Worcester, one in Plymouth, one in…aw, shucks.  Read up on all of them right….HERE.

More to come, so stay tuned for details on these dates and more.  Hope to see you soon!

For some reason, we’ve experienced a HUGE surge in the number of posts here over the last couple of days  — like, ten times the normal volume.

We’re not sure if everyone suddenly just NEEDS a little more Duende Project in their lives at the holidays, or if everyone just WANTS a little more Duende Project in their lives at the holidays.

Either way, glad to have you stop by.  Check things out, maybe listen to a track or watch a video, and if you feel so inclined grab a late Christmas present for someone with one of our albums.

Thanks, and have a great rest of the holiday season!

and we’d like to point out that we, too, in addition to being an artistic endeavor, are a small business.

There’s a deal running here, for instance...get all our work at a significant discount when you buy it all.  Or grab a couple of tracks, or just one album…help some small business-folk out.

Thanks!

Followers of the band know that our good friend Skip Shea is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker whose first feature, “Trinity,” features a cameo performance by Faro and Tony doing “Trinity Tango”  and a full score by Faro.

Here’s the recording of Trinity Tango as used in the film:

 

 
Good news on the “Trinity” front continues as the film has garnered 8 nominations for awards at the upcoming 2016 International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema MILAN, including ones for Best Feature Film, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

We can’t go to Milan, but we’ll be waiting anxiously back here for the results. Congratulations, Skip!

Thanks to all who came out and packed houses for the last three days at the Shawna Shea Film Festival held in Southbridge MA.  Independent film makers from around the world had their work highlighted, many came to watch and hang out, and in general the love and support for this festival (held in memory of founder Skip Shea’s daughter Shawna, a young woman of unique promise who passed in a tragic car accident in 1999) was heartening to see.  You can learn more about the festival here.

We were honored to play at the close of the festival’s awards ceremony on starlite’s main gallery stage last night.  Taking a different tack than we normally do with pre-prepared set lists, we created a list of some of our higher energy work, called audibles off the list, and did a single 90 minute set.  The larger crowd dug it and we made some new fans for certain.  Highlights included stellar soloing by Chris Lawton on several pieces (“Funk 101” was a standout), a particularly insane drum solo from Mr. O’Donnell during “Trinity Tango,” and Faro’s more than usually sensitive and stirring bass solo to open “NYC Serenade.”

Following our set, starlite favorites Lux closed the night out in the front room with a jazz/R&B fest. In addition to some wonderful originals, their covers shone, with versions of “Living For The City” and a deeply surprising take on Led Zeppelin’s “Trampled Underfoot” making for a hot ending to a great evening.  (More about Lux here.)

We’re off till the end of year now, with some gigs to announce later in the beginning of 2017.  Keep your eye on this space for more info to come…and take care of one another.

First:  we occasionally defeat the demons of distance by posting demos of possible new tracks on our Soundcloud site. Most won’t make it to the show or to an album, but it makes it easier to share them and listen to them as we’re considering them.

Here’s one added last night:  Talking God In A Dark Parked Car .

Second:  A gig one week from now!  Back in Southbridge but for a very special event…

We’ll be playing at the close of the awards ceremony for the Shawna Shea Film Festival, a three day festival of indie film in Southbridge MA (11-10 to 12). Check the website for more info:

http://www.shawnasheaff.com/

We’ll be on at 10, after the award ceremony.

See you soon, and happy listening.

From a show on Easton (MA) Cable Access Television last May, a rare video performance of the Faro and Tony show, along with poet Lucci.  It’s an hour long with several performances and a nice Q and A as well.  Thanks to Rich Berg and crew for this one…

For The Love Of Words

10 years ago, on September 17, 2006, bassist Steven Lanning-Cafaro and poet Tony Brown got on stage at the Java Hut in Worcester, MA, to perform together for the first time. This Thursday night, come celebrate that with the full band at starlite in Southbridge.

Back then, they didn’t have a name or much thought about making the partnership a long term thing.  Look at all that’s happened since —

we’ve traveled extensively, played in coffee houses and at jazz AND poetry festivals up and down the East Coast, played with lots of terrific poets and musicians, even opened for Laurie Anderson;