This father - son duo has one goal when they play: to make beautiful music. Their sound is constantly expanding - so be on the lookout for new and interesting music. 

Gene Curivan: Saxophone and harmonicas
Michael Curivan: Keyboards and percussion

Making music is especially sweet for these two. Gene put his musical dreams to the side as he raised a family and lovingly took care of his wife until her passing. Michael is once again making music using a MIDI keyboard and a Mac. He has muscular dystrophy and lost the ability to play guitar about 10 years ago.

The opportunity to make this music together is truly a gift from God.


Paul Richmond - 2019 -2020 National Beat Poet Laureate of U S, was Beat Poet Laureate of Massachusetts by the National Beat Poetry Foundation for 2017 to 2019. Paul's work is best described as political and deadpan, delivered wryly humorously in his own style.
He has been called Assassin of Apathy – power of words / humor - on the unthinkable, the unsolvable, to analyze to digest to give birth to creativity and hope
Richmond has performed nationally and internationally on stages from the Austin International Poetry Festival, in Austin TX, to Gödör Klubban at the Jazzköltexzeti est in Budapest, Hungary. His work has been published in four books, in many journals, magazines, anthologies and poetry collections. 
He runs Human Error Publishing which promotes Word events and festivals and publishes books

I am a visual artist mostly paintings. I have been always playing music since I can remember. From singing baroque music to punk bands, jazz rock,  experimental, underground and folk my interest is always original, creative and challenging music that explores and pushes the limits. I played with numerous bands and many people. I love music and since the great opportunity of having recording capabilities through my laptop, I started to explore more of my own musical ideas. I have one confession to make. I never learned how to read music and even I had great teachers, some of them very famous and respected, my brain can't connect the dots. On the other hand I can visualize and remember hours and hours of music. So I keep playing and having fun. Thank you for listening, I hope you have fun too.

Peter Blanchette is the inventor of the 11-string archguitar. His repertoire of unusual and internationally acclaimed arrangements and compositions spans from medieval to contemporary to ethnic, played in solo recital or with selected other instrumentalists to form the Virtual Consort. A recipient of the MCC Artist Grant in Music Composition, Blanchette is a veteran performer of such high profile venues as NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion," and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His CDs receive heavy airplay on "Sunday Baroque," "The Thistle and Shamrock," and regionally on WAMC, WNYC, and WFCR. In 2009, he was a WFCR Foundation nominee as one of the region's most valuable artists. As a composer, he has contributed to such television programs as HBO's "Sex and the City," and PBS' "Inside the Tuscan Hills." Among other film work, Blanchette worked extensively with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom and director John Turturro on Turturro’s film Illuminata.
In the late 1990's, the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA) commissioned Peter Blanchette to compose scores to the Buster Keaton silent comedies “The General” and “The Navigator” which resulted in sell-out performances in RealArtWays in Hartford CT, and at Memorial Hall in Shelburne Falls, MA. In 2009 Blanchette received grants from New England Foundation for the Arts "Meet the Composer," and the Northampton Arts Council to complete the trio of Keaton's masterpieces by composing a multi-instrumental score to the 1928 comedy, Steamboat Bill, Jr. which he premiered, along with master classes in film scoring, to resounding success at the Dingle Film Festival in Ireland in September 2009, and Amherst Cinema Arts Center in October 2009.  He is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra, and holds a Master’s Degree in Music Composition from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree from Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont.


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