Here's  a song from "A Troubadour's Tour of Historic Nantucket" filmed in front of the Old Gaol on Nantucket Island. Keep an out for more like this coming this summer!

New CD now available

My new CD, A Troubadour's Tour of Historic Nantucket, is now available for sale at CD Baby, Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, etc. The project was a commission from the Nantucket Historical Association and features ten songs inspired by historic properties on Nantucket Island.

New Music Video of Jono Manson's recording of our song "Wildflower"

Here's the music video of the Jono Manson/Joe Flood song "Wildlower" from Jono's 2016 release "The Slight Variations."

I was honored to be the musical performer at the Connecticut Storytelling Festival April 29-30, 2017. This is the final bow of the Festival with (l to r) Joe Flood, Julie Pasqual, Bil Lepp, Sheila Arnold Jones, Marianne McShane, and emcee Carol Birch. (Photo Anne Rutherford) I'm proud to have shared the bill with such an array of talent.

Eric Andersen - "Singin Man" NERFA

Here is a video from the 2015 NERFA conference: me backing up my old pal Eric Andersen singing a song he wrote after seeing me do my thing on the street in Paris about 30 years ago!  Funny how things come around again... We look awfully serious, but it's just sleep deprivation--we were having fun!  That's Cheryl Praksher on the percussion.

Joe Flood - "Deep Sleep Blue"

Another sleep-deprivation video from the NERFA conference, this one from 2014, of the appropriately titled and themed "Deep Sleep Blue."

Work, DeKoven, and Barrett

SUNDAY, APRIL 12TH, 2015 AT 3 P.M.
Middletown High School Auditorium
Middletown, CT 

A MULTIMEDIA MUSICAL TRIBUTE

to Middletown's Famous 19th Century Songwriters

featuring (in alphabetical order)

Rani Arbo (vocals)

Tom Callinan (vocals)

Michael Cleary (guitar and voclas)

Vince De Laria (keyboards)

Jerry Dugger (vocals)

Mark Ettinger (accordion, piano, bouzouki)
Joe Flood (guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals, etc.)

Joe Fonda (bass)
John Kalinowski (fife, accordion, concertina)

Scott Kessel (drums and percussion)

Fred Moses (percussion, vocals)

Edmund Peart (drums)

As the promo says, "Joe Flood has organized some of Middletown's brightest musical lights to interpret the songs of Middletown's own Henry Clay Work (1832-1884), Reginald de Koven (1859-1920) and broadside poet Edward Barrett (1817-1914)."

And as you can read below (a couple of posts back), I got two grants from the Middletown Commission on the Arts and the Connecticut Humanities Council to create this piece, and I am really excited to be bringing all of these great musicians together along with several of our favorite local radio hosts to read period texts about these songwriters' lives and times. Please come!

Tickets are available from the Greater Middletown Concert Association here.