:::ig @vito_dito
:::Ritchie Havens meets Lou Reed in a sweat lodge: Living Earth is an eco-rock band from Durham, NC. Good energy songs of struggle, persistence, resistance, community and connecting with the Earth. Bringing audiences together to celebrate Care and Courage. And to boogie down.
Billionaire’s Blues by Vito Dito (recorded by David Cuthrell, 2/2025)
Born to Fly by Living Earth (recorded by James Phillips, 2/2025)
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:::SHOWS
11/8 Vito Dito at Western Wake Farmer’s Market, Morrisville. 9am.
10/18 Living Earth at Bullhorn Music Festival, Durham. TBD
5/21 Vito Dito and Friends at The Cave, Chapel Hill. 9pm.
5/3 Vito Dito at Eco-Music Mini-Fest Raleigh. 7pm.
4/25 TaoSongs at BOOM Festival, Charlotte. 7pm.
4/19 Living Earth at Eco-Music Mini-Fest Durham. 7pm.
4/16 Vito Dito with Grit Diaries at Speakeasy, Carrboro. 7pm.
3/28 Vito Dito and Ken Moshesh at Gregg Museum, Ral. 2-4pm
::: What’s this all about?
All right, can you hear me so this this in my mind for this earth is it’s primarily about sort of an Eco consciousness a connection but it’s not a city kind of thing so it’s a country kind of thing and it’s about growing your own food. It’s about being a community with people it’s about kind of living on the edge. There’s a whole idea of edged dwellers right in the forest. There’s animals and plants that are in the forest. There’s animals and plants in the field and their animals and plants That are on the edges in the edges are the most diverse the most resilient the most bountiful areas are so I think of the music is being between genre and also between sort of civilization and wildness and and it’s it’s it’s like if you drive 45 minutes out in the country and you come to a little sign that Says Vito‘s farm you turn in there and that’s what this music is for. It’s a dirt road going to someplace where you can relax you can chill your outside of sort of the system I guess so that’s what I think of this. You know when I was talking about that early 50s late 50s early 60s Where rock ‘n’ roll started it was wild man and they were country people you know they weren’t like sophisticated they were they were plan music that was a little bit dangerous a little bit wild and I like that so that’s that’s what that’s what this is and so the pictures are like you know trees fallen leaves Bonfire, small fire, small house garden and and that’s that sort of the visual kind of dimension of this music it’s also sort of about reaching for something that is not obvious you know like when you’re in a dark room and you’re trying to find the light string and you have your arms in front of me and you know you’re gonna turn it on and it’s gonna transform it, but this music is for That moment before when you’re reaching out you’re reaching your arms out and I think it’s good. I mean it makes you move. It’s also I want to dance music you know where people can you know and that’s one of the things I like about rock ‘n’ roll is that when you say dance to rock ‘n’ roll it’s just people like wiggling and doing this feelinga little bit wild and so I like that too so that’s it