March 5, 2007

Get the opening torch ready for a run towards Tonic: Marco Benevento and Joe Russo have announced The Duo will kick off April’s three-city Green Apple Music & Arts Festival in New York with two acoustic shows.

The Duo’s on its way back east from three recent gigs in Colorado and Chicago as half of the wonderful Zeppelin super-impersonsators, Bustle In Your Hedgerow. Marco and Joe will re-unite with Scott Metzger and Diamond Dave Dreiwitz for another gig in New Jersey on St. Patrick’s Day, then the duo will kick off the Green Apple proceedings in about six weeks on the Lower East Side:

We’ve heard the rumblings, we’ve heard the requests, and while we aren’t ready to load up the van and hit the road for an extended tour just yet, we do have a treat for the home team. We are doing our part and going GREEN to kick things off at the Second Annual Green Apple Festival. We will be playing two very intimate ACOUSTIC performances at Tonic in New York City on April 19th as part of the Official Green Apple Music Festival Kick Off! Tickets will be available through DuoTicketing beginning on Friday, March 2nd. Tickets will be $15 in advance and $20 on the day of show. There will be TWO shows, one at 8pm and one at 11pm. The shows are an 18 and over. Check out the goings on in your neck of the woods and head over to greenapplefestival.com.

Sir Joe Russo will also close out the Green Apple fest on Sunday, April 22 with his old bandmates from Fat Mama. The now-official reunion of this underappreciated jazz outfit comes on the heels of the A Big YES…and a small no quasi-Fat Mama reunion show at vibraphonist Kevin Kendrick’s 30th birthday, and if that gig is any indication of Fat Mama’s cohesiveness in the face of time off from each other, we’d all be wise to make it to this Sunday gig. In the words of The Duo’s humorous management, this festival “begins and ends when Joe Russo says.”

Read on for more on Marco’s newest live release and newish trio, plus some amazing photos from Bustle’s Chicago show on Friday…

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