The Decato-Sanborn Project is kind of like a 2 for 1 special … Martin Decato and Scott Sanborn come from vastly different musical backgrounds, and the best of both shine in this collaboration, from duo shows to fronting a full band.
If you like guitar, well crafted and well presented music with roots in multiple genres, and enjoy watching the interaction between experienced musicians who share a unique chemistry and love of the craft, you are sure to be entertained as Martin & Scott trade tunes back and forth, just daring the other to follow. And we dare you to keep your toes from tapping!
We call it americana, but you never really know what’s coming along because we just trade ’em back and forth and let it happen. Our influences range from Johnny Cash to Muddy Waters to Bob Dylan to Merle Haggard to The Band to Guy Clark to Steve Earle to John Hiatt to the Greatful Dead to Doc Watson to The Allman Brothers…. get the picture? You’ll hear all these influences and more in our original music, and we’ll cover these greats and more in our live shows. Pretty much like the best campfire jam ever! Good-time tunes presented with a ton of energy, spontaneity, and topped off with a heap of guitar pickin’.
Martin, hailing from Dorchester NH, is one of the regions finest flatpickers, schooled on the front porches of rural Florida, but with deep family roots at the base of Moose Mountain in Hanover NH. His playing encompasses bluegrass, country, blues and americana of all stripes. He has performed up and down the east coast since he was a teenager.
Scott resides high on the side of Cardigan Mountain in Orange NH, with musical roots as a keyboard player steeped in blues, funk, jazz and plain old rock and roll – and even studied classical for a time in the dim and distant past. The guitar came along a little later and brought out a bit of an alter-ego with a wide range of old and new acoustic folk, rock and blues and his own healthy dose of americana. He has played throughout New England with too many different bands to count for over 25 years
When we met and heard each other play, there was an instant mutual respect, and we quickly realized there were many commonalities within the differences. A few campfire sessions later, we started taking gigs, and that grew into the making of our debut CD, “A Meeting of Mountains”. We have a blast playing, and our audiences seem to as well.
We think there’s a bit of a lesson here … despite the constant pressures out there trying to convince us that different music styles, political positions, races, religions, or ideas can’t, or shouldn’t coexist, we say they can, and should. When it comes down to it, we’re all just folks, and if we stop long enough to think about it, we may find we have more commonalities than differences … like the music you’ll hear from The Decato-Sanborn Project. Mostly, we just hope you’ll enjoy listening, but if a brief thought about what lies behind it helps you to accept differences a bit more graciously, then we’ve done an even greater good
With our best musical regards, The Decato Sanborn Project, July 2018