Marc Douglas Berardo - Waiting on a Brand New Day

“I wrote the song a few years back at the tail end of a period of personal upheaval,” says songwriter Marc Douglas Berardo. “The lyric endeavors to capture two singular moments in time for the characters of the song as they sit on the roof of an apartment building looking off into the night in which the ‘lights looked like Paris.’ The second happens on a summer night on an island with a view of the mainland as ‘the fire on the beach kept us warm.’ In those moments the narrator does not want to break the spell of their newfound connection. He simply finds comfort in the metaphor that there is nowhere else that he’d rather be as they wait on a brand new day. The music is meant to have the galloping feeling of new love and the excitement of changing times. The whole thing just about wrote itself.”
The track was recorded in Woodstock, New York at the Mark Dann Studios. Produced by the brother team of Chris and Marc Douglas Berardo, the musicians include the legendary drummer Eric Parker (Joe Cocker, Orleans), Dann on bass, and the mysterious and highly regarded Dr. Westchesterson on piano and organ. The recording is an upbeat and hopeful arrangement for the end of summer.

Americana Highways will premiere the video for “Waiting on a Brand New Day” on August 24th. The video was filmed on location in Westerly, RI, and Block Island, RI, by DSC Studios in Pawcatuck, CT. It was edited by Marc Douglas Berardo and Dan Corbett for DSC Studios, in June 2022. The principal photography is by Joshua Behan of Westerly, RI.

Singer-songwriter, performer and keen observer, Marc Douglas Berardo combines songs that mine the deep feelings and lessons gleaned from real life characters and situations along with an onstage presence that uses humor and deft storytelling to rally an audience and lead them into a deep and almost spiritual experience. It’s an adventure that brings to mind James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, Guy Clark or Steely Dan with a touch of Mark Twain or Hunter S. Thompson for good measure. It’s a night of laughter and emotion that works to send an audience home with a renewed sense of possibility.

In what amounts to song length works of fiction, Berardo’s sharply drawn, award winning song portraits cast a net on unusual and beguiling characters and places. With a painter’s eye for detail, and music firmly rooted in the great American sound, Berardo sings about circus retirees, expatriates in Florida rum bars, union iron workers, old poets, aimless New York City debutantes, near death car crashes, hard-nosed fishermen and of course, the changes that experience brings to everyone. He does this “simply and well” with what Rambles Cultural Magazine calls: “careful images and great tunes”