We’ll be back at the starlite bar and gallery in Southbridge MA tonight for three sets of poetry, music, and shenanigans. Rumor has it a special guest will be joining us on guitar for a couple of cuts. Come check it out…39 Hamilton St, Southbridge, MA. We go on around 9, but come early and dig on the craft beers and cocktails….
VIDEOS!!!!
These links will lead you to videos of our January 3rd, 2016 duo performance at the Sahara Restaurant in Worcester MA. All videos shot by the intrepid Chris Lawton.
Tony on vocals, electric guitar; Faro on nylon-string acoustic, six string electric bass.
Last night at the Sahara
Fun filled night for Faro and Tony at the Sahara in Worcester, performing a decent sized set for a small but enthusiastic crowd. Thanks to the 7 Hills Slam for having us.
Set list:
America The Beautiful
Awake
First Time You Heard
Four Stones
Falling In Love, Cleaning Up After
DIY
Trinity Tango
Old Love
Video links to come soon!
Catch the full band for three sets at starlite bar and gallery in Southbridge, MA on January 14th.
Gigs on the horizon…
Tomorrow night, Faro and Tony will be pulling the duo version of the band out of mothballs and doing a feature set at the Sahara Restaurant, 143 Highland St, Worcester MA. It’s a part of the 7 Hills Poetry Slam. Doors at 7, show kicks off at 7:30. $5 donation asked for; food (GOOD food) and full bar available.
And on January 14th, the full band will be holding another three sets at the starlite bar and gallery in Southbridge, MA. We’ll get to grooving around 9 PM. 39 Hamilton St., Southbridge, MA.
And of course…
if we don’t see you, have a wonderful holiday. Or series of holidays. And if you’ve already had one, we hope it was a good one. And enjoy the winter. Or the summer…whatever you’re having wherever you are. See you soon, we hope!
VIDEOS
If you look up at the top of this page you’ll see a link named “Pix ‘n’ Vids.” We keep videos and pictures of us in action there…and there are THREE links there as of today to videos from our show last week. Go check ’em out!
One night in Southbridge…
Having never done a full three hours of our work in one shot, we were understandably nervous about the show last night out at the starlite in Southbridge. It turned out to be easily one of the best gigs we’ve ever done.
Fair to say we’re developing a fan base in Southbridge — a couple who saw us the last time we were there came out to see us specifically, a group of guys became instant Faro admirers and wouldn’t stop staring open mouthed at his bass playing. Chris Lawton’s guitar never sounded better and had its own appreciative audience. Chris O’ Donnell tore up the kit over and over again (sending one woman seated at the bar into constant spasms of air-drumming), and Tony traded comments about the poetry with a gentleman up front over the course of two sets before he had to leave.
Highlights? A full band version of the entire “Jim’s Fall” suite, the first thing Faro and Tony ever did together long ago. “Water Inside Song Inside Water” to open — a piece Tony wrote and performed only once before, solo, to open a concert by bass legend William T. Parker at Clark U some time back. “Nothing Worth Doing,” a brand new piece with Tony on guitar that may become a staple of the sets. For Christmas, the crowd got Faro’s jaw dropping tapped 6-string bass solo version of “Carol Of the Bells,” last night accompanied by O-D riffing away behind the kit. The list goes on and on — a night of highlights.
Videos and photos were taken — we’ll link to ’em as soon as we can.
We’ll be back on January 14th to do it all again. Thanks to starlite and Demetri Kasperson for making this possible, and to Melissa Mitchell and Capri Lanning-Cafaro for the constant love and support.
Getting what for the holidays?
Why, the entire Duende Project discography, of course! Five albums of solid poetry and music from Faro, Lawton, O-D, and Tony at a 25% discount if you get it all. It’ll cost you less than the new Grateful Dead box set, the new Rush box set…heck, less than MOST box sets these days, and you’ll have EVERY SINGLE TRACK we’ve ever released. Such a deal.
Go get it HERE.
And of course, if you just want one album, or even a single track, you can do that too. Same link, same place, same special sauce.
Practice notes…
Excellent practice yesterday in advance of our gig on Thursday.
Worked up full band arrangements of all the work in the very first ever Duende Project, um, project — the “Jim’s Fall” suite, originally done with just Tony and Faro on voice and bass, respectively. It was the first thing we ever did as a unit, and it’s what first solidified the idea that this would be a long term relationship. Taking on new life nine years later — it’s a trip.
We also worked up a straight ahead jazz treatment of “Water Inside Song Inside Water,” a longer piece originally done as a solo poem used to open a show by renowned avant-garde jazz bassist and composer William T. Parker back in 2010. Never set it to music before…
There’s more, but don’t want to give away all the secrets…you’ll have to come see on the 10th, and surely some of this will be making it out to the public on future recordings. Stay tuned…
December 10th looms…
We’ll be doing a full night of music and poetry out at starlite, a cool bar/performance space in the town of Southbridge, MA on Thursday, Dec 10th. Toward making that night a great one, we’re going to be rehearsing this afternoon at Duende Project World Headquarters…doing some new stuff and old.
Also coming up in the near future will be a duo version of the show at the 7 Hills Poetry Slam in Worcester, MA on January 3rd. Tony and Faro will be back where it all started over 9 years ago. Who knows what will happen?
You will if you show up, of course….check out the “Gigs” page here for all the details on each of these gigs…
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