Dank has entered the Ellicottville Summer Festival of the Arts’ fiddling contest and will be competing against fiddlers from all over the area this 4th of July. We’ll need your support. We’re scheduled to go on some time between 1pm and 4pm and the event is to be held at the gazebo in the square downtown. We’ll post more details as we learn them.

Wish us luck!

Update: Today’s contest brought out a great amount of impressive fiddlers from all around. We saw many different styles and heard many different kinds of tunes. Third place went to… John Siepierski, accompanied by Brian Thompson!

We’re honored to have placed amongst such great musicians. Congratulations to the two awesome fiddlers who placed ahead of us. Our performance was somewhat disappointing, however.. both the guitar and the fiddle (which somehow usually stay in tune for months at a time) somehow fell out of tune on their E-strings for our opening waltz! The result was pretty bad. But then we tore the place up with a couple of reels.

Thanks to everyone there who supported us!

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A local NBC News crew came to our gig in Erie today. Therefore, Dank will be making its premier appearance on TV on the 11 o’clock news if you live in the Erie area. Be sure to watch for it!

Update: For those who missed it, we’ll be posting a video soon.

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In a moment of inspiration, we’ve decided to take the band in yet another new direction. We’ll be immersing ourselves in Jewish heritage, and experimenting with Klezmer music.

We’ll keep you updated.

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We’re happy to announce a new addition to the band.
Everyone give a warm welcome to Jason Wood.
(various applause heard scattered throughout the building)
During the last jam we had with him, we put down a new track, and the jamming was some of the best we’ve ever had.
He’ll be playing whistle, flute, keys, and other various assortments of instruments.
We’d also like to extend an invitation to any other instrumentalists or vocalists (yes we said it, VOCALISTS) interested in joining up and pushing the folk envelope even further.
And finally, don’t miss us next Wednesday (7/2) in Erie, Pa at the Erie Art Museum.
So we’ll leave you on this note..
“Dank’s not going anywhere… but we are going places.”

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Long time no post, huh?
Apologies that we haven’t gotten around to any correspondence as of late, things were extremely busy for a while, but with summer here we have some free time again.
So this summer…
Hmm…
Well we have a show or two on the calendar and more coming down the pipes.
John tells me we’re getting hooked up phat here real soon.
So we’ll keep you posted on that.
We’d like to collaborate with other artists, maybe expand our sound and learn some new things.
We also want to get some studio-quality recordings out, but we’re cashed-strapped again.. my guitar is falling apart and I’m probably gonna invest in a second guitar before anything.
So again, we’ll keep you updated.
Never really explained the line-up situation.
We just decided to market the band as myself and John, since we’re the creative catalysts of this group, with guests.
Right now we’re featuring Matt Covert on djembe and percussion.
Aaaaand we wanna look into maybe a flute player?
A pianist?
Or a serious bassist?
That’d be sweet as hell.
What else, what else…?
We’re looking into state grant money, so again, more to come on that.
And.. we just want to extend a thank you to the venues we’ve played over the past few months that we haven’t had the opportunity to publicly thank.
So on that note, if you’d like to book us for a PAYING (we’d prefer it) gig, we’d love to hear from you.
Just contact us through the Myspace or our band e-mail:

dankfolkmusic@gmail.com

Help us make this summer the most baller shiz ever.
Thanks to the fans, friends, and others (except the fat ones), and we’ll have more for you in the coming weeks.

Much love (werd2lyf3),
BT

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Hey all,
we’ve updated the website. Hope you enjoy.
John

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