Monday, July 21, 2025

Vigil Debut

 Work is underway to get the 1st album re-released with bonus tracks... stay tuned!

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

What it Is

New product from JC & The Buddagong... What It Is.. 7 brand new tracks from Wes DeMarco, Peter Ortiz and Jo Connor

Available on CD: http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00W0KR7Y

or Vinyl: http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00ZLEL7U

The debut record Matchmaker is now available on vinyl: http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00ZNCWWP


Both are streaming on on the usual suspects: Spotify,  Pandora, Apple Music, Amazon etc..

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Updates

 A compilation of previously unreleased Vigil tracks is being developed with a planned release prior to the end of the year.

 A new JC & The Buddagong  record is currently being mixed. You can pick up the debut album here: Music | JC and the Buddagong (bandcamp.com)

One of the special guest Buddagongers is Mel from Shades of Violette. You can find more about he here: Music | Shades of Violette (bandcamp.com)


Thursday, October 26, 2023

New Jo Connor project JC & The Buddagong

Presenting the works of 3 friends that was created for the enjoyment of friends, family members and themselves and now finally available for the world to hear.

JO CONNOR Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Bass

Vocalist songwriter from Baltimore bands Here Today, Vigil and Jo Connor Band; worked with

producer John Anthony (Genesis, Queen) for CBS Records (Here Today) and Chrysalis Records

(Vigil); his song “Therapist” is on the “Nightmare on Elm Street, Part IV” movie soundtrack. Jo

has shared the stage with many legendary performers (Bauhaus, Robyn Hitchcock, The

Stranglers, Alan Vega, Marianne Faithful and The Ramones). Jo is a vocalist who is not afraid to

take risks, giving both his studio work and live performances life and immediacy.

PETER ORTIZ Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitar, Bass

Studied Classical Guitar with a student of Andres Segovia and Architecture. Peter uses both influences in his songwriting to create unique musical spaces and song structures. Peter, Jo and Wes met at The Catholic University in Wash. D.C. and have been writing music together ever since. Peter has designed public schools for three decades, creates Kinetic Art videos (check out our three music videos at https://www.youtube.com/@JCandtheBuddagong-ng4mi ) and is a published author (check out his true-life thriller “Two Hitchhikers” at https://www.amazon.com/Two-Hitchhikers-Pedro-Ortiz-ebook/dp/B00BOFBTHI

WES DEMARCO Electric Lead Guitar, Synthesizer, Percussion (Remastering)

Professor of Philosophy and award-winning sleight-of-hand magician, Wes has an extremely

broad musical vocabulary ranging from free jazz, fusion, classical violin to rock and fiery metal.

Wes’s solo musical output is prodigious (see Wes’s Soundcloud). Wes composes his leads as if

they were symphonies.

Access JC and the Buddagong’s new album “Matchmaker”.

at https://jc-n-thebuddagong.bandcamp.com CONTACT US AT: JC-n-thebuddagong@proton.me

OBBT Vinyl

 Onto Beggar and Bitter Things is now available on vinyl. It contains a new mix of Wildlife but otherwise is the same as the CD and cassette versions. 

You can get it here: Kunaki Sales OBBT Vinyl

or here: Bandcamp Sales OBBT Vinyl

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Youtube channel

Check out our YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzlK9IJkEDnpjHRvn6EnSZg/videos



Vigil Debut

 Work is underway to get the 1st album re-released with bonus tracks... stay tuned!