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TFDI Tour Feat. Tony Lucca + Jay Nash + Matt Duke + Benny Marchant

Tony Lucca 

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Tony Lucca's songs have been featured on TV's "Friday Night Lights," "Brothers & Sisters," "Shark," and "Felicity" and in Kevin Costner's feature "Open Range." He has been seen on E! Entertainment Television and A&E, and performed numerous times on NBC's "Last Call With Carson Daly."

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Over the course of his career, Lucca has shared stages with *Nsync, Marc Anthony, Macy Gray, Johnny Lang, and the late Chris Whitley. His 2009 dates included an opening stint with Bareilles, gigs with Tyrone Wells, and a cooperative tour with Jay Nash and Matt Duke (which resulted in "TFDI," a collaborative EP recorded at SPACE in Evanston, Illinois, and released by Rykodisc in late 2009).

 

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Jay Nash, East Coast native and rock troubadour, has been blessed with the kind of excruciatingly rustic voice so rarely heard on record. He emerged into the national spotlight from the same Los Angeles music scene that gave rise to Sara Bareilles, Katy Perry and many other current pop luminaries, Nash has shared the stage with everyone from the Counting Crows and Maroon 5 to Keb Mo and Dave Mason (and Sara and Katy...). He has logged over a thousand live performances and sold over 25,000 albums without ever having signed a conventional record label deal. He writes songs that are all at once clever and down to earth. Although subdued at times, his voice articulates a quiet power that commands the attention of his listeners. Jay Nash is a ‘lifer'. He's a musician dedicated to the craft of songwriting and the life of the rock n roll road show.

 

Matt Duke

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Duke's impressionistic lyrics - delivered in a pure tenor that cuts straight to the bone -- shine bright, particularly throughout the edgy "Kangaroo Court" and on the guitar-driven "Needle and Thread," in which Duke assumes the role of the troubadour yearning to find "open arms at the bar for the prodigal son that often goes astray."

Such quests make up the heart and soul of One Day Die - an album which finds Duke asking questions of himself and which grabs listeners by the lapels and shakes them into a similar frame of mind.

Duke has been to a lot of places since he began his musical career. Writing and performing around South Jersey and Philadelphia while in high school helped him win the respect of soon-to-be-collaborators like Marshall Crenshaw, Suzzy Roche and Dylan sideman David Mansfield.

 

Cold Weather, the haunting album by electric troubadour Benny Marchant, is the sound of a hopeful heart that's bruised but still beating. Painting the stages of love and loss, Benny's emotional alternative folk-rock, sweetened with pedal steel, a horn section and his own delicate guitar, is his coming of age as a solo artist.

In Los Angeles, Benny found his greatest acclaim to date, founding the alternative rock band, Kings Royal. In 2008, Kings Royal toured extensively in support of fellow alt-rockers, Candlebox, whose Kevin Martin was a fan; the two bands even shared musicians. However, Kings Royal broke up the following year. The split created an opportunity for Benny to pursue the sound he'd dreamed of . Soon he was taping his own compositions. The Kings Royal experience led to Cold Weather, a great new stage in a journey that will position Benny Marchant as a singer-songwriter to make his generation know their own hearts.

Benny Marchant 

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