The Duende Project is the collaboration among Tony Brown, veteran performance poet;  Steven Lanning-Cafaro, bassist/guitarist; guitarist/producer Chris Lawton; and drummer Chris O’Donnell. Together they blend performance poetry with rock, jazz, funk, reggae, and more into a high energy blend of music and meaning. (Or something like that.) As The Duende Project, they’ve spent nearly 14 years performing up and down the East Coast and have released six collections of their work, including the recent “Live At AS220 (2019)” which can be found on all major download and streaming services.

Their website at http://theduendeproject.com offers links to videos and music, show schedules, and more.
Tony’s personal blog of constantly updated new poems, “Dark Matter,” is at http://radioactiveart.blog.
And of course, there’s the inevitable Facebook page for The Duende Project…titled, of course, “The Duende Project,” as well as the Twitter account @DuendeProject.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in hundreds of events at AS220’s Empire Street venues being cancelled. Since it isn’t possible to gather for shows, AS220 Live Arts is bringing performances from local artists directly to you to watch from the comfort and safety of your own home with“AS220 Streaming Sessions” – high quality multi-camera, multi-track, live-streamed or pre-recorded weekly performances! AS220’s LIVE ARTS performance spaces are unjuried and uncensored forums for the arts,offering every artist residing in our small state the opportunity to perform or present their original work at our venue. If you are a performer interested in setting up a Streaming Session, especially if you had an event cancelled at AS220 due to the pandemic, email booking@as220.org.

The pandemic has also tremendously impacted artists and AS220 financially. To support our streaming sessions and the artists participating please visit https://www.as220.org/streamsupport to donate.

The Unmen are a rock band from the swamps of Rhode Island

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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in hundreds of events at AS220’s Empire Street venues being cancelled. Since it isn’t possible to gather for shows, AS220 Live Arts is bringing performances from local artists directly to you to watch from the comfort and safety of your own home with“AS220 Streaming Sessions” – high quality multi-camera, multi-track, live-streamed or pre-recorded weekly performances! AS220’s LIVE ARTS performance spaces are unjuried and uncensored forums for the arts,offering every artist residing in our small state the opportunity to perform or present their original work at our venue. If you are a performer interested in setting up a Streaming Session, especially if you had an event cancelled at AS220 due to the pandemic, email booking@as220.org. 

The pandemic has also tremendously impacted artists and AS220 financially. To support our streaming sessions and the artists participating please visit https://www.as220.org/streamsupport to donate. 

What is a “FLIZZ”?!? .. Follow the question with another and ask, What is an artist? … An Artist Named Flizz is a multiple award winning artist as a member of the New England group named “WHO DEM?. Also a music producer & song writer for WolfMan Productions. He is an idea all thrown together like a musical Frankenstein monster. The son of a lyrical singing father and soul music loving mother. The father of dancing daughter and a melodic son. Lover of music that touches the heart and inspires listeners. A 20 year community leader and voice for the inner city. He is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University. Flizz is a feeling of life in the moment and transformed into melodic poetry over instrumentation. His roots dig deep in the soil of South Providence RI. where he has experienced the greatest happiness along with heartache and sadness. An upbringing filled with lessons from love as well as violence. Having a love for ALL music and using it as an outlet he found a deep connection to hip hop, but loved to blend with multiple other genres. While a lot of his contemporaries use music as a tool to assimilate and others are entrenched in the original hip hop sound of days past. Flizz keeps the promise of being 100 percent himself and true to a making a feeling in songs. He is not REAL but he is ACTUAL. He is not reality television but ACTUAL VISION. An artist paints pictures and each bar is a brush stroke. Each production pattern is a urban renaissance composition. Flizz is an artist and The Artists Name is FLIZZ.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in hundreds of events at AS220’s Empire Street venues being cancelled. Since it isn’t possible to gather for shows, AS220 Live Arts is bringing performances from local artists directly to you to watch from the comfort and safety of your own home with“AS220 Streaming Sessions” – high quality multi-camera, multi-track, live-streamed or pre-recorded weekly performances! AS220’s LIVE ARTS performance spaces are unjuried and uncensored forums for the arts,offering every artist residing in our small state the opportunity to perform or present their original work at our venue. If you are a performer interested in setting up a Streaming Session, especially if you had an event cancelled at AS220 due to the pandemic, email booking@as220.org.

The pandemic has also tremendously impacted artists and AS220 financially. To support our streaming sessions and the artists participating please visit https://www.as220.org/streamsupport to donate.

Button Byron

Multi instrumentalist and founding member of award winning bluegrass/folk band “Hollow Turtle”, Button Byron embraces a variety of folk, bluegrass styles and sounds. With his band, he has played events ranging from fundraisers, Providence Water Fire, to busking on the streets of Newport.

Jake Hungsinger and Andrew Donnelly

After a long quarantine, songwriter and powerhouse Americana artist Jake Hunsinger is back with brand new songs and a new direction. A PVDFest, Xfinity Center, and VampFest alum, Hunsinger wants to be the number one song and dance man in America. Joined by Rock Bottom Band guitarist Andrew Donnelly, Jake Hunsinger is a skilled storyteller who provides dynamic performances and well crafted songs about solitude, regret, hope and freedom. “If this is your first time listening, I hope you like it. If you don’t, you don’t have to tell me.”

Beth Barron

Singer/Songwriter, Beth Barron, a bluesy, sultry songstress who delivers her originals with passion and honesty.  An active member in the community, Beth Barron is on the committee for both PVD Folk Festival as well as the Rhode Island Songwriters Association.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in hundreds of events at AS220’s Empire Street venues being cancelled. Since it isn’t possible to gather for shows, AS220 Live Arts is bringing performances from local artists directly to you to watch from the comfort and safety of your own home with“AS220 Streaming Sessions” – high quality multi-camera, multi-track, live-streamed or pre-recorded weekly performances! AS220’s LIVE ARTS performance spaces are unjuried and uncensored forums for the arts,offering every artist residing in our small state the opportunity to perform or present their original work at our venue. If you are a performer interested in setting up a Streaming Session, especially if you had an event cancelled at AS220 due to the pandemic, email booking@as220.org.

The pandemic has also tremendously impacted artists and AS220 financially. To support our streaming sessions and the artists participating please visit https://www.as220.org/streamsupport to donate.

Dominic Thompson is a local musician from Fall River Massachusetts. His first song Sensitized released last year from his first album reached over 11,000 streams on Spotify. This year Dominic has currently released 2 singles Apocalypse, which is about all we’ve been going through this past year and his newest single I’ve Had It Up To Here With You, which has an angry punk rock melody about going through a bad break up. Please join Dominic on this streaming session June 15th, at 8pm while he plays a full set with currently released songs and unreleased material!

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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in hundreds of events at AS220’s Empire Street venues being cancelled. Since it isn’t possible to gather for shows, AS220 Live Arts is bringing performances from local artists directly to you to watch from the comfort and safety of your own home with“AS220 Streaming Sessions” – high quality multi-camera, multi-track, live-streamed or pre-recorded weekly performances! AS220’s LIVE ARTS performance spaces are unjuried and uncensored forums for the arts,offering every artist residing in our small state the opportunity to perform or present their original work at our venue. If you are a performer interested in setting up a Streaming Session, especially if you had an event cancelled at AS220 due to the pandemic, email booking@as220.org. 

The pandemic has also tremendously impacted artists and AS220 financially. To support our streaming sessions and the artists participating please visit https://www.as220.org/streamsupport to donate.