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"This Year" release on November 19th ~ Pre-save now everywhere you buy and stream your music!
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"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" releases on November 26th - Pre-save yours today
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CHRIS BERARDO
Releases stirring new Christmas song
"This Year" on November 19th b/w "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" on November 26th

A loving ode to family and friends
for all to enjoy during the holidays

OCTOBER 18, 2021 (New York, NY) -- When you think of festive holiday songs, you think of roasting chestnuts, little drummer boys, and a jolly man in a red suit. But the acclaimed singer/songwriter Chris Berardo didn’t have those overly familiar images in mind when he set out to write a Christmas song. “I just couldn’t see myself writing about reindeer or candy canes,” he laughs. “But I’d always wanted to try my hand at the classic ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ which is just a joy to sing.”
The Christmas song that Berardo did write, “This Year,” is a deeply personal but universally relatable holiday tune. It celebrates life and serves as a reminder of what we have and a remembrance of what we’ve lost: “the love, the laughs, the photographs and our fair share of tears.” He wrote this powerful, impassioned tune after going through a particularly emotionally rough Christmas last year. “I started just thinking of how lucky we are for the time we do have with the ones we love, and then I felt good because it could be a song that is positive and joyful,” Berardo recalls. “It helped me to feel better and to be thankful. I hope it evokes a nice memory or two for some folks.”

Originally, Berardo had planned on recording “This Year” accompanied only by a piano, but things changed after he shared the song with his friend and producer David Abeyta, the long-time guitarist for Texas country rockers Reckless Kelly. “He put his brilliant musical mind into it and we started bouncing ideas around,” Berardo reveals. “He really fleshed it out, playing all the other instruments and I feel like it stands on its own as a song and a record in the style of what he and I have been creating together, which felt really good.”
“This Year” and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" mark the latest collaboration between Berardo and Abeyta. The two worked together on Berardo’s successful 2020 single “Somewhere Blue” and his knock-out cover of Badfinger’s classic “Baby Blue” that came out earlier this year.


Americana UK has hailed Berardo’s sound as “Americana in its truest sense…both keeping the flame alive and moving it forward,” while TMT Radio/Americana Music Times declared The DesBerardos as “one of the finest Americana bands out there.” Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member Richie Furay proclaimed Berardo “a special musical talent and his music shows off the gift he’s been blessed with. You can hear it in each song, songs that are more than just another musical project – they are his heart poured out to you and a passion to share it that can't be denied."
 
While there is a wry, worldly-wise character to the Connecticut-based musician’s songs, his pure, heartfelt message is ultimately inspiring and optimistic. These qualities are wonderfully exemplified in his latest single. “This Year” exudes a life-affirming joyfulness that captures, yet also transcends, its holiday setting.
 
“It’s not ‘Jingle Bells’,” Berardo admits. “But I hope it just might evoke a few warm memories and remind a listener how lucky we are for the time we have and the love we share in this world. Oh, and we did ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ too, and it was fun and joyful, just as I had predicted!”


For more information, please contact:

Brian O'Neal (Los Angeles) || brian@reybee.com
Rey Roldan (NYC) || rey@reybee.com
James Boss (NYC) || james@reybee.com

"One of the best roots rock bands in America today!" - Western Beat

Bio 

CHRIS BERARDO
Chris Berardo’s quarter-century of music making has been a pure, heartfelt emotional outpouring – a triumph of authentic songcraft and storytelling over careerism, fashion and hype.

“I never really was the type to chase ‘fame,’” said Berardo. “It was that I wanted to do this stuff. It was more I want these opportunities to sing these songs for people.

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Over the course of three albums and countless roadhouses, honky-tonks, close calls and lost weekends, Berardo and his longtime band The DesBerardos have earned a loyal fanbase and peer respect for the sheer quality and sincerity of a their rootsy Americana rock. It’s a nuanced, genre-straddling sound that resonates widely through both pop sensibilities and outlaw attitude.
An innate showman since the age of 12, Berardo’s compositions continue to channel the AM radio Southern rock and country influences of his youth in Bronxville, NY – the likes of Neil Young, The Eagles, the Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Poco, and the Doobie Brothers. Honing his craft alongside the legendary Four Seasons tunesmith Bob Crewe, and on a thousand beer-stained stages, the Connecticut-based singer-songwriter offers refreshingly unfiltered, timeless expressions all-the-more welcome in an era of manufactured, manipulated music.
Americana UK described Berardo’s sound as “Americana in its truest sense … both keeping the flame alive and moving it forward,” while TMT Radio/Americana Music Times dubbed The DesBerardos, “One of the finest Americana bands out there.”
A consummate and charismatic performer, Berardo’s smoky voice and lived-in tales have charmed audiences from intimate acoustic shows to full-blown theater concerts, often opening for some of his idols, including The Doobie Brothers, The Marshall Tucker Band, Dickey Betts & Great Southern, and America. 
Berardo’s lovingly-crafted compositions explore love, life, hard knocks, and the indefatigable human spirit. While wry and worldly-wise, his message is ultimately inspiring and optimistic – if anything, even more so since a serious health scare stalled his career after breakthrough album Ignoring All The Warning Signs (which spent two months in the Top Ten at Sirius Radio’s XM Outlaw channel, and hit #49 on the Billboard American Chart).
Returning stronger than ever with successful 2020 single “Somewhere Blue” swiftly followed by a killer cover of Badfinger's hit song "Baby Blue" , and the imminent fourth album Wilder All The Time (all produced by David Abeyta of Reckless Kelly), Chris Berardo has finally captured his intoxicating live sound and spirit on record, and is poised to catapult well beyond where he left off.
“In this business, you really need to have this sense of hope and a sense of belief, and a sense of joy in what you’re doing,” he pondered. “There’s a lot of that [on Wilder All The Time]. But sometimes you just wanna dance, and there are songs on the album for that, too!”

"Underground rock legends are breaking through doors to deliver a timeless sound" 
~ Sam Odice, Play Too Much


Read Play Too Much​'s review of Chris Berardo's most recent show at Rockwood Music Hall 
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Upcoming Shows

Wednesday, October 20th
The Bitter End
147 Bleeker Street, NYC

Notes From An Artist Presents:
ABOUT FACES! A re-imagination of the early works of Sir Rod Stewart  Wednesday June 22,2022 - Doors at 7:00 PM Two Sets 8-10:00 PM ET Cover $10 
Get your tickets here: bitterend.com/#/events

Monday, August 15th
Rockwood Music Hall
Stage 3
196 Allen Street, NYC
6:00 PM
An evening of songs in the round with Marc Douglas Berardo and renowned Texas troubadour, Walt Wilkins

Thursday, August 25th

Shhhhh! Venue TBA
Chicago, Il.

Friday, August 26th
The Des Plaines Theatre
1476 Miner Street, Des Plaines, IL

Saturday, August 27th
The Arcada Theatre
105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 



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"Americana in its truest sense. It embodies the heart and soul of the country ... Berardo does as good a job as anyone of both keeping the flame alive and moving it forward." - Americana UK

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