The Duende Project

Played to a small but enthusiastic crowd at the Spot Underground in Providence, debuting a new piece (“Neighborhood Bar” — see the video here) and featuring Steve on keyboards as well as bass.  He’ll be learning to play the sousaphone over the next week or so, I suspect.  Guy’s a monster.

Other great bands on the bill: Bad Fogelberg, Kris Hansen, Deceiving Texture, and Nate Cozzolino and the Lost Arts.

Here’s a pic from the event.  Handsome bunch…!

Next show: starlite bar and gallery, 39 Hamilton St., Southbridge MA.  March 10.  Three sets of original fun and games.  Love to see you there…!

At the Spot tonight, Pine Street, Providence RI!  We’re on a multi band bill and will be ripping up a whole buncha stuff including new thingies.  Come out and see us!!!

Hey…here’s another track we’re working on.  Brand new and raw, but one we’re thinking hard about for shows…

Neighborhood Bar

And don’t forget — if you’re in our neck of the woods, show in Providence on February 28th and in Southbridge on the 10th of March.  Hope to see you somewhere…!

We’ll be at The Spot Underground in Providence RI on Feb 28.  Part of a multi band bill.  Details to follow…

Two new tracks are up on our Soundcloud site — the place where we occasionally post demos of things we’re working on or special projects.

There’s a brand new demo of a piece called “What You Said.”  Bit of a love poem, that one…

There’s also a link to our track “Falconers,” which was recently featured on the Indiefeed Performance Poetry podcast.   It’s a tribute to librarians, and specifically to Wess Mongo Jolley who created and curated the site for many years and who is now retiring from both that and his daily job to pursue other interests.  Good luck, Mongo…!

Hope you enjoy one or both of these.

Remember, anyone in the Central Massachusetts area — we’ll be doing our next scheduled gig at starlite in Southbridge MA on March 10.  We’ll keep you updated on other things as they come up…

Many thanks, once again, to the folks at Brew’d Awakenings in Lowell MA for the reception Tony received at his solo show on Tuesday night. More than a few bought Duende Project CDs and that’s without hearing any music during the reading!  That’s faith for ya.  Much appreciated…

Speaking of which, you can STILL get one track or everything we’ve put out if you head over to our Bandcamp commerce site.   If you get all five albums, in fact, you get a 25% discount. That’s a lot of music and will set you up handsomely for when we finally get that sixth album out there; in addition, it helps us FUND that effort.  We’re doing it ourselves, a track at a time, but there are always equipment costs and incidentals to be purchased. Your support in whatever form you can manage is greatly appreciated.

Thanks from all of us!

Tony will be doing the solo poetry thing.  Brew’d Awakening Coffeehaus, 61 Market Street, Lowell, MA.  6-9 PM.  Open mic, slam, feature. If you’re in the neighborhood, why not stop by?

We’re getting into recording our next album, and that’s not cheap…Wanna help?

Go get yourself some Duende Project from our Bandcamp sales site.  If you buy the whole discography — 5 whole albums! — you get a 25% discount.  LESS than 25 bucks for all five!

Or, peruse the site and just get the tracks you want at about a buck apiece.

Either way, you’ll be helping independent, unique music and poetry get to where it wants to be…with you!

Thanks.  Here’s the site:

The Duende Project on Bandcamp

Over the last nine years, we’ve been privileged to have been featured on the Indiefeed Performance Poetry podcast twenty times.  Curator and host Wess Mongo Jolley has been a passionate supporter of what we do for almost the whole time we’ve been at it.

Mongo’s retiring and closing down the podcast in favor of new endeavors, and we prepared this new studio track as a farewell and thank you to him and to the podcast.  It’s also a tribute to all librarians everywhere, coincidentally, and ALSO is the very first studio track from the full four piece band.  We hope you enjoy it.

Falconers

Thanks, as always, to the cast and crew out at starlite gallery in Southbridge who gave an enthusiastic welcome to us once again last night. We pulled out some new work for them, got to help someone celebrate their 21st birthday, had a new friend (Ryan Burke) sit in for a few pieces on tasty guitar, and in general had a grand time.

We’ll be back for another round on March 10. Mark your calendars (and leave room for whatever delicious soup Annie whips up for that night)!

Special tip of the hat to Demetri Kasperson for having us.