Patty Morris and Dukkha's Nemesis

Cystic Fibrosis SUCKS. Median Age 37, Half DIE as KIDS or YOUNG ADULTS!

HELP DUKKHA’S be a NEMESIS to CF. 10% FROM OUR CD & MERCH FIGHTS CF.

And YOU can HELP with JUST $10! Our GOAL IS $10x1000 (= $10,000!) TO WHACK CF IN THE GONADS!

DONATE AT: www.CFF.org.

Please make your $10 donation today & post the CFF link on your myspace & facebook. Join my beautiful daughter’s Team Ali Katz’ $10X1000 Campaign to Stop Death by CF! THANKS, MERCI, GRAZIE, GRACIAS, DANKE, OBRIGADO - Love, Patty

HELP US GET TO BONNAROO and other festivals, go on ourstage.com to discover new bands AND VOTE FOR DUKKHA’S NEMESIS whenever we come up in the categories: BATTLE FOR THE ROO; JAZZ; BLUES; INSTRUMENTAL; NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL; NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL.

Also, you can buy our stuff on digstation.com, CD Baby, and lots of other sources.

DUKKHA’S CD RELEASE party (and CYSTIC FIBROSIS FUNDRAISER) Friday, March 21 at THE BIG EASY in PORTLAND, ME raised $2500 TO CRUSH CF!

CYSTIC FIBROSIS is a genetic disease that causes LUNG DYSFUNCTION (kind of like drowning in the open air at it’s worst), FOOD ABSORPTION ISSUES (resulting in inability to thrive), MULTIPLE HOSPITALIZATIONS (for many CF patients, several times a year), AND A MEDIAN SURVIVAL OF 37 YEARS.

RESEARCH HAS HELPED MAKE LIFE WITH CF FAIRLY NORMAL FOR SOME, BETTER FOR MANY, BUT BIG-TIME "THIS SUCKS" FOR THOSE WHO DON’T RESPOND WELL TO CURRENT TREATMENTS. MORE RESEARCH WILL MEAN FEWER KIDS DIE YOUNG, MORE KIDS AND ADULTS ENJOY LIFE WITHOUT STRUGGLING TO BREATHE, AND VERY LIKELY A CURE!

PLEASE GO ON www.CFF.org and search for Patty Morris IF YOU WANT TO HELP. CHECK IT ALL OUT, IT’S A RIDICULOUSLY NON-WASTEFUL AND PASSIONATE NON-PROFIT WHICH MANAGES TO GET 90% OF WHAT YOU CONTRIBUTE DIRECTLY TO CF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.

JOIN MY DAUGHTER’S TEAM "ALI KATZ" ON www.cff.org

If you’d prefer, google Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to be sure we’re not sending you to another fly-by-night scam-suck and once on CFF.ORG, CLICK GREAT STRIDES LOGO & TYPE "PATTY MORRIS" (state is "Maine") INTO "FIND A WALKER".

I’LL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THE CF FUNDRAISING AND RESEARCH PROGRESS YOU’RE HELPING WITH.

THANKS!!!



"Patty Morris is the epitome of Blue-eyed Soul. May your soul be saved."
- JD Steele

DUKKHA’S NEMESIS: An Eclectic Approach Arriving at Music with a Conscience and Soul

Dukkha’s Nemesis is the output of a musical machine that incorporates a diaspora of musical influences spanning several generations. Patty Morris, the lead singer, came to her son James Donahue and friend Adam Agati with several of her musical brain-children in 2004. With only a cappella versions of the songs to work with, James and Adam transformed Patty’s long-held ideas, injecting youthful harmonic and rhythmic bodies into what started as blues/soul/R&B heads. The three of them sat down on countless occasions, brainstorming, arranging, and recording musical snippets to eventually be recorded by an all-star cast of old High School friends and aspiring musicians.

Currently located in New York, Boston, Portland, and Nashville, members of Dukkha’s Nemesis have shared the stage with legends like Wynton Marsalis, Bob Mintzer, the Yellowjackets, Cleo Lane and Johnny Dankworth, Hal Crook, Dave Zinno, Joe Lovano, Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck, JD Steele, and many more. The extensive influences of jazz, rock, hip hop, funk, blues, soul, R&B, reggae, and other genres are evident in this unique cross-generational project.

Adam Agati (guitar), Nick Falk (drums), Bryan Ladd (bass), Chris Gagne (trombone), Chris Enright (keys), and Joe Albano (tenor sax) all are recent graduates of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. James (trumpet and flugelhorn) opted for a different route, studying International Relations at Brown University, but always kept music close to heart, performing with and composing/arranging for a number of groups at Brown. James’s sisters and Patty’s daugthers Ali and Gabe (17 and 13 at the time) also came into The Studio in Portland, ME to provide additional vocals on the socially conscious song "Blind", which comments on the pervasive problem of homelessness that afflicts so much of America’s urban population.

Patty’s lyrics also touch upon such important issues as international politics ("Do Some Good" and "Believe in Peace"), the difficulty of growing up in a low-income part of Portland with 9 siblings ("Jackie Was Cry’n"), the pathologies of corporate America ("The Last Tollgate"), and the incurable genetic disease Cystic Fibrosis ("65 Roses"), with which she also has personal experience: her daughter Ali was born with CF. In addition to dedicating "65 Roses" to Ali, Patty also wrote "Little Buddha" to capture the free-spiritedness of her daughter Gabe, and "Miles (Down the Road)," a play on words dedicated to her son James as inspiration after leaving the nest.