Richard Ruane and Beth Duquette are a Vermont-based acoustic duo performing original music with a clear traditional-roots influence that is steeped in tradition, but of its own time. Ruane and Duquette perform with a comfortable ease and audience rapport that comes from many years of collaboration and love of creating music together.
Their latest Album “Notch Road” received the honor of a Tammie award for Best Folk Album of 2019 in The Vermont Times Argus/ Rutland Herald as well as one of the Best Vermont Albums of 2018 in County Tracks. “Notch Road” was included as part of The FolkChef Kitchen’s podcast Best of 2018 in a list that includes Joan Baez and John Prine.