Abbie Gardner and Anthony da Costa are a folk music duo from Stony Point and Pleasantville, NY, respectively. With just a guitar and a dobro (with the occasional lap steel and/or lame joke) these two have been playing stages across the Northeast as a duo since July '07 where they made their (in)formal debut in the hills of the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. Abbie (2006 Rocky Mtn. Folks Festival Finalist) regularly plays in the female Americana trio Red Molly, while Anthony (2007 Kerrville Folk Festival NEW FOLK Winner) usually tours and records as a solo act. However, with their debut CD "Bad Nights/Better Days", due in April '08, the two have stepped out into the scene as a mean music machine. Raw and in real-time, there's nothing artificial about this duo (with Anthony's sudden extreme muscle development as a rare exception). They write the songs they used to be afraid to write. They sing with their hearts on their sleeves. Sit back and enjoy (or get up and start yelling and waving your arms or something, they'll know you're into it).
live at the budgiedome
falcon ridge folk festival july '07
Abbie Gardner & Anthony da Costa's Friend Space (Top 8)
hey...had a two hour drive tonight coming home from my niece's college graduation upstate. it was a beautiful drive with the sky lit up the way it only is just after the rain, and then the moon came out and it was the same moon as your album cover, so i put in your new cd for the ride...Pocket and Crazy in Love were the first to hit me hard, and then I'd Rather Be came on and I could have (actually i did) play it over and over and over again...absolutely beautiful...and i can tell other tracks are waiting in the wings for me to fall in love with next (Note, Better Days...) i'm grateful for this gorgeous record... love, barb
Boy, the new CD is good. I mean really good. I hate to pick specific tracks to gush over, but Someday is just stunning, and Note is the one song Ryan Adams wishes he wrote. Crazy in Love is just a total heartbreaker. Just great stuff, beginning to end.
BN/BD arrived today. Yay! I also hear that some folks (not me, but some folks) got the new Red Molly CD today as well. Warm weather, great music, Rangers advancing in the playoffs - life is good.
