Wow! Times are a bit different these days. For a couple of wandering musicians who for the past six years were concerned with getting people together in community and remembering connection, things have changed a great deal indeed.
For now, we are unable to meander our way between Maine and our homestate of Minnesota, giving and receiving the blessing of sweet song. We used to avoid (and even considered not having) an online presence. Now it’s the only way to communicate with our community and will be this way for the foreseeable future.
Additionally, we became pregnant in November of 2019 and were so looking forward to traveling and receiving the blessings of our community as await the arrival of our first child. Now it is a risk to even go to the grocery store.
Being isolated for months (helps a person see more clearly, we think), the murder of George Floyd, and increasing protests have led to a heightened awareness of racism in our country. We just began the dive into “White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to talk about Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo, and are nervously, awkwardly, and enthusiastically beginning to do the work we need to do to become more anti-racist.
Our Current COVID 19 Plan (6/6/2020)
We have been incredibly lucky/blessed/fortunate so far with support arriving in the way of money, food, clothing, kind words, and even homemade baby blankets! We have been asked by churches to send recordings of us performing songs for their online services, written an instrumental for mini donkeys plowing, and been part of an online music festival! We have had the honor of performing several online concerts where large numbers of people showed up with gusto!
Our most consistent online offerings have been short online videos and occasional concerts via our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/brianandmadeline). We would like to continue to do these, but we’re beginning to look into additional and more frequent ways of working with the current normal.
We are beginning to offer concerts via Zoom for invited audiences. We want to continue our usual practice, which is to offer our concerts for donation/pay what you can rather than a flat fee (who really wants to put a price tag on art?). Please reach out if this may be of interest to a community of yours!
And, for something totally outside of our norm, we are also beginning to dive into the depths of hosting our own Patreon page! This will be a way for us to ask for a more consistent exchange between artist and audience. It will help us to offer you new and interesting material in the form of music, video, online workshops/classes, etc. in exchange for us knowing that we’ll be making enough to cover basic living costs in the midst of a pandemic. Please stay tuned as we begin putting together this exciting new venture and consider joining when the time comes!
Peace, health, and harmony,
Madeline, Brian, and baby (due August 10th!)
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“I hear something new and exciting, a deeper digging maybe, toward the spiritual and soulful.”
“Inventive songsmithing and well-paired vocals...”
Make Your Way In album featured on WFMT’s Folkstage by Chicago DJ Rich Warren - 2018
Awarded Nashville’s Earie Award, by Ear To The Ground, for “Talent by Soulmates” - 2016
Chosen by D.C. DJ Mary Cliff for the Suzi Wollenberg Folk DJ Showcase - 2016
About
Fendrick & Peck (Madeline Fendrick and Brian Peck) are adventurous and curious people who have put together their own variety show of songs, poems, and stories. Their music, though familiar and comforting in sound, is noted for its exquisite harmony, lyrics, and composition with a certain raw imperfection that helps you feel at ease in the world for a little while. Their lyrical content centers on the rebellious messages growing in opposition to our cultural narrative; perhaps the answers we seek actually are in peace in wildness, accepting our authentic selves, and love of the finest kind. Fendrick & Peck, now in their 6th year living off love and generosity, have three full length albums: Make Your Way Out/Make Your Way In and The Sandhill Crane (both produced by Timothy Frantzich in Minneapolis), and Lucky Penny, recorded by Nashville recording engineer/producer Bil VornDick. You can find them sharing their music in venues from their hometowns in Wisconsin to Germany, Opera Houses to Living Rooms, Festivals, Conferences, and Libraries. They have received praise from DJ Rich Warren (of Chicago’s the Midnight Special) and been hailed as the “future of folk music” by DJ Queen of Washington D.C. Mary Cliff.
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